Sarah Jessica Parker and her longtime friend Andy Cohen spoke out about the removal of the Pride flag at The Stonewall Inn in New York on Wednesday.
The Sex and the City star, 60, shared a joint video with the Watch What Happens Live host, 57, via Instagram, reacting to President Trump’s recent order to remove the flag from the Stonewall National Monument, which is dedicated to LGBT history.
‘Question, you think if you remove our flag we’re going to not care, or remember, or continue to advocate, or forget, I’m just curious,’ Parker asked in the clip.
‘Yeah, we want our flag back. But, just cause you take it away doesn’t mean you take away the history, or the community, or everybody that stands shoulder to shoulder.’
The clip featured a view of Christopher Park, the site of the Stonewall National Monument, and three Pride flags in view.
In the caption, she wrote, ‘X, SJ and Andy.’
Sarah Jessica Parker, 60, and her longtime friend Andy Cohen, 57, spoke out about the removal of the Pride flag at The Stonewall Inn on Wednesday; Seen in 2019
Cohen also shared an Instagram story a few hours prior, calling Trump’s move ‘needless, mean f*****y.’
The flag was taken down after the Trump administration issued a federal guidance in January banning ‘non-agency’ flags from being displayed within the National Park system.
The Stonewall Inn — the site of the 1969 riots that launched the modern LGBT movement — was designated as a national monument in June 2016.
Protesters descended on the Stonewall National Monument on Tuesday, venting their fury over the removal of the rainbow banner, and holding sings that read, ‘You can’t erase our history.’
In a defiant move, Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal vowed during a Tuesday interview that he and other New York City politicians will reinstate the flag this Thursday.
The Stonewall riots, which lasted six days, broke out in the summertime after the New York City Police Department raided the Stonewall Inn and shut down the gay bar down, removing people violently.
Parker, who’s known for playing the iconic Carrie Bradshaw on SATC and its cancelled sequel And Just Like That…, is a longtime advocate for LGBT rights.
‘I always felt so grateful that the show had found, I’m going to say, sisterhood and fraternity and companionship fairly early on with the LGBTQ+ community,’ she shared with Advocate last year, during Pride month.
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‘Question, you think if you remove our flag we’re going to not care, or remember, or continue to advocate, or forget, I’m just curious,’ Parker asked in the clip
The clip featured a view of Christopher Park, the site of the Stonewall National Monument, and three Pride flags in view. In the caption, she wrote, ‘X, SJ and Andy’
Cohen also shared an Instagram story a few hours prior, calling the flag removal ‘needless, mean f*****y’
The clip was in reaction to President Trump’s recent order to remove the flag from the Stonewall National Monument, which is dedicated to LGBTQ + history
Protesters descended on the Stonewall National Monument on Tuesday, venting their fury over the removal of the rainbow banner, and holding sings that read, ‘You can’t erase our history’
In 2016, the Stonewall Inn was designated as a National Historic Landmark and a Monument was opened across the road
The 1969 police raid on New York’s Stonewall Inn (pictured) sparked the modern LGBT rights movement. Picture credit: Stonewall Uprising
‘That there was a natural affinity and affection made sense to me, and we were really grateful,’ she added.
She also spoke about the climate under the Trump administration.
‘It is sort of hard to address this particular chapter in our history right now, talking about our show, because I feel like it diminishes actually the kind of very consequential pain that this community is feeling and experiencing.’
‘But the ways in which we can talk about this community and its integration in the lives of these characters on the show, in the ways in which they are real, is wonderful because that’s the way we do exist in this world,’ she added.
‘That is the far bigger story that we are part of each other’s lives. And the idea that we’ve somehow been able to suggest or diminish the roles that these people in this community have played in so many millions of lives that people aren’t even aware of,’ she went on.
‘It’s not only a great disservice and deeply hurtful, obviously, but it’s a cruel swipe, and it’s unfortunate for those who are doing it.’
