Tracy Barbutes Photographs Yosemite Protest Rally For The SF Standard

August 26, 2025 | Source: Monroe Gallery of Photography

Via The San Francisco Standard
August 25, 2025

color photograph of people signing the same trans pride flag that fired Park Ranger Joslin and others helped hang on El Cap earlier this year

At the rally on Sunday, people sign the same trans pride flag that Joslin and others helped hang on El Cap earlier this year. | Source:Tracy Barbutes for The Standard


Protesters rally in Yosemite for ranger fired over hanging trans pride flag
The Yosemite community has been reeling since Shannon "SJ" Joslin’s firing. --Click to read full article

"...then an upside-down U.S. flag in February to protest the NPS budget cuts. None of the people who hung those flags faced consequences. That upside-down flag garnered international attention and showed the power of El Capitan as a symbol"


An upside-down American flag hangs from El Capitan near Yosemite National Park’s Horsetail Falls to protest the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration, February 22, 2025
An upside-down American flag hangs from El Capitan near Yosemite National Park’s Horsetail Falls to protest the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration, February 22, 2025
©Tracy Barbutes


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