Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Local politicians and people gathered to raise a Pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument in New York City Thursday, after the U.S. Department of the Interior removed a flag on Tuesday.
"We have brought the flag back to a sacred site," Brad Hoylman-Sigal, Manhattan borough president, said via bullhorn, The New York Times reported.
Federal employees raised an American flag on the pole on Wednesday afternoon. By Thursday evening, both flags were side by side.
Initially, the officials hung the flag just below the American flag, but the crowd shouted, "higher!" People from the crowd moved in and raised the flag to be next to the American flag, The Times reported.
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