There will be a small number of LGBTQ officers in uniform providing security for the contingent.” Police and fire department command staff will march in their class AA uniforms as regulated. Most law enforcement officers marching will be in casual dress. It shows everyone is working in the spirit of Pride to come together! We have agreed that all first responders will march together in one contingent. That is why we are grateful to have reached a compromise solution today. Ever since then, we have attempted to bridge that divide. “Pride grew out of conflicts between LGBTQ communities and police at Compton’s Cafeteria and Stonewall Inn. The San Francisco Pride and the San Francisco Police Officers Pride Alliance released the following statements Thursday:
This year's theme is "love will keep us together.” This will be the first pride parade in San Francisco since 2019. "One thing that we really stressed, we wanted to really trust our officers to know what it was to be casual, what it was to dress it down a bit," said SF Pride President Carolyn Wysinger.
But according to the pride board president, officers will likely be asked to wear something more casual than a full uniform. The details of the compromise are still being hammered out. "There was a time when myself, as a trans woman, couldn't serve in a police department, anywhere in this country,” said San Francisco police officer Kathryn Winters.Ī lot of officers have joined law enforcement to make sure that the events of the past don't happen again. Members of the San Francisco Police Officer's Pride Alliance said their effort to represent their community as their authentic selves is also important. And that's the job, that's San Francisco pride,” said SF Pride Executive Director Suzanne Ford. "I think it was important from our point of view to make sure members of our community who historically haven't had a voice, to make sure that was heard and elevated. Raj Mathai speaks with San Francisco District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey on this.Īt Thursday’s pride flag event, everyone assembled described the controversy as a "family spat, that's now over."īut the issues involved still simmer including a checkered, sometimes violent history among the LGBTQ community and the city's police force. Nor is the NYPD welcome to protect those attending the festivities they’ll be relegated to policing the perimeter a block away.San Francisco Mayor London Breed and police will march at this year’s pride parade, the mayor said. Unlike the clergy or the military or representatives of any national or ethnic group, cops wishing to express their sexual orientation have to simultaneously hide another big piece of who they are, a petty prohibition that other Pride celebrations have not stooped to make. Last year, they barred gay and lesbian police officers from marching in uniform until 2025. Unfortunately, Pride organizers are also intent on making a stubborn statement about exclusion.
At a time when Florida is barring teachers from mentioning sexuality in classrooms, even when wholly appropriate, and a gay high school class president there was forced into using a code word in his graduation speech to talk about coming out, the nation’s preeminent LGBTQ event is poised to make an important statement about what inclusion really looks like. On Sunday, June 26, New York City’s Pride Parade returns for its first in-person celebration in three years.