The 1969 police raid of the Stonewall Inn, the famed gay bar inFor decades, before and after the riots, some law enforcement officers and agencies targeted known LGBTQ-friendly establishments in an effort to shut them down, brutalize patrons, and arrest people who violated the homophobic and transphobic policies of the time, according to the, the culmination of days of protests and clashes with police, was the catalyst for the modern gay rights movement and is what NYC Pride commemorates each...
“Part of the trauma and triggers that our community faces are directly tied to that uniform,” said David A. Correa, the interim executive director at Heritage of Pride, Inc., the nonprofit organization that hosts most of the city’s major Pride events. “To be fully inclusive, you have to make the space safe for everyone. And that sometimes means compromise, and Black and brown people and indigenous people have been compromising for centuries.
A spokesman for the NYPD said at the time that it arrested three people involved in the incident. Police said one was charged for graffiti, while two were charged with resisting arrests and assaulting an officer. Jason Samuel, of the Gay Officers Action League, a nonprofit LGBTQIA law enforcement advocacy group, said that its members were upset by organizers’ decision to remove law enforcement groups from the lineup. He said he believes that GOAL has served as “a conscience” for the NYPD, of which several of its members serve for and has helped implement sensitivity and awareness training throughout the department.
It is 2021, get over it. We all have equality under the law. We surely don't need reminders of past practices, just ask all of the individuals who thought that ripping down historical statues was a good thing.
We were proud of gay cops for 50 years and our communities were safer because of them. I saw gay cops drag a basher off the Divisadero bus in the Castro. Now we've started the sniffy little purges and exclusions. So let's trigger someone with gay cops. pride
Pride....Just another group of bigots.
20 likes. Damn yahoo fell off the side of the earth lmao.