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“NYC Pride seeks to create safer spaces for the LGBTQIA+ and (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) communities at a time when violence against marginalized groups, specifically BIPOC and trans communities, has continued to escalate,” organizers said. Organizers decided to bar law enforcement groups to make Trans marchers and participants of color feel more comfortable about celebrating their identity. At that time, their participation will be reviewed. Under NYC Pride’s new rules, law enforcement groups will not be marching in the parade until 2025. “It is demoralizing that Heritage of Pride didn’t have the courage to refer to GOAL by name in its announcement, referring to us only as ‘Law Enforcement Exhibitors.’ The label is not only offensive but dehumanizing for our members.” So their response to activist pressure is to take the low road by preventing their fellow community members from celebrating their identities and honoring the shared legacy of the Stonewall Riots,” GOAL President Brian Downey, an NYPD detective, said.
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“(NYC Pride) is well aware that the city would not allow a large-scale event to occur without police presence. NYC Pride did not name GOAL specifically in a statement released Saturday, but said they would ban all “corrections and law enforcement exhibitors” for the next several years. NYC Pride was expected to announce the Gay Officers Action League’s exclusion from the parade early next week. The group’s plans come a day after the Gay Officers Action League - which represents officers from the NYPD and other law enforcement organizations - announced that they were no longer welcome at the parade. “All aspects of first response and security that can be reallocated to trained private security, community leaders, and volunteers will be reviewed.”Ĭops will “provide first response and security only will absolutely necessary,” organizers said.īut the NYPD won’t be missing out on the fun and will be there, despite NYC Pride’s decision, department officials said. “The NYPD is not required to lead first response and security at NYC Pride events,” the group said in a statement. The group also wants to drastically cut the number of cops assigned to protect the massive annual event, which draws an average of 2 million marchers and spectators to the city each year.
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An NYPD officer gets into the spirit at the Gay Pride Parade on June 30, 2013.