Gracie Abrams has made her opinion clear when it comes to the recent removal of the Pride flag from Stonewall Monument in New York City.
On Tuesday (Feb. 10), the singer/songwriter reshared comedian Benito Skinner’s post about the matter on her Instagram Story. Skinner had amplified a New York Times article on the removal of the flag under a Donald Trump administration directive and wrote one word to sum up what he thought about it, with which Abrams agreed: “Demonic.”
The musician’s post comes one day after employees of the Stonewall Inn — the Greenwich Village bar known as the origin point of the LGBTQ rights movement — first noticed that the Pride flag was missing from the federally owned Stonewall Monument out front, according to NYT. Weeks prior, the Department of the Interior had issued a federal guidance about not displaying “non-agency” flags in the National Park System.
In a statement on X, recently elected NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani said that he was “outraged” by the seizure of the flag. “New York is the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, and no act of erasure will ever change, or silence, that history,” he wrote. “Our city has a duty not just to honor this legacy, but to live up to it.”
Abrams has long been outspoken in her political beliefs. In December, she released a song called “Sold Out” with frequent collaborator Aaron Dessner and Bon Iver to benefit Everytown, a non-profit that works to end gun violence, after a string of shootings across the globe that month.
Shortly before that, Abrams spoke out about the inhumane conditions Palestinian people are facing in Gaza and slammed President Trump for mocking Rob Reiner in a Truth Social post right after the filmmaker and his wife, Michele, were killed in their home. “Within 24 hours of the most unimaginable tragedy a family can endure, we see the President yet again reveal the most poisonous and vile narcissism maybe in the history of humanity,” she wrote on her Story at the time, calling Trump “indefensible.”
“It is getting harder to find the words to describe the pain in the world,” she added. “I am lighting a candle for everybody who is hurting.”