“That’s something I think should be embraced.” “Officers who are members of the LGBT community to march and express their pride and their solidarity with the community and their desire to keep changing the NYPD and changing the city,” he said at a press conference at the time. Some, like then-New York mayor Bill de Blasio, called the decision a “ mistake.” The decision proved just as controversial as the one in San Francisco, with people noting both the police resistance legacy of Stonewall, and the strides made by New York’s LGBT+ officers, who successfully sued for the right to march as a group in uniform 1996. In New York, organisers banned officers from participating as a group in the annual parade until at least 2025, and the NYPD has been asked to stay a block away from the edge of all in-person events.
The conversation around policing and Pride has been hotly contested across the country.
