The great-granddaughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt plans to celebrate her family’s legacy and the LGBTQ community by transforming the steps at Roosevelt Island’s Four Freedoms Park into what she states is “New York City’s largest LGBTQ pride flag”
The 12-foot-by-100-foot staircase will be decorated in rainbow colors between June 14 and June 30, and will officially be unveiled at an event on June 15 called "Ascend With Pride."The great-granddaughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt plans to celebrate her family’s legacy and the LGBTQ community by transforming the gray, concrete steps at Roosevelt Island’s Four Freedoms Park into what she states is “New York City’s largest LGBTQ pride flag.
“It just seemed natural for the park to honor the LGBTQ community in this visible way,” Julia Ireland, also a member of the Four Freedoms Park Conservatory’s board of directors, told NBC News. The 12-foot-by-100-foot staircase will be decorated in rainbow colors June 14-30, and will officially be unveiled at an event June 15 called “Ascend With Pride.” The event coincides with World Pride, which is being held in New York for the first time to honor the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rising.
The Four Freedoms Park, which opened in 2012, commemorates Roosevelt’s eighth State of the Union on Jan. 6, 1941, during which he defined four “essential freedoms” — the freedom of speech and expression, the freedom of worship, the freedom from want and the freedom from fear. “I’m inspired by how forward thinking the four freedoms were in 1941, and I would like to think that if my great-grandparents were alive today, they would include LGBTQ+ rights among those for which they advocated and fought,” Ireland said.
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