{"id":547157,"date":"2021-05-31T15:50:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T19:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=547157"},"modified":"2021-05-31T15:50:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T19:50:57","slug":"members-of-nyc-pride-group-vote-to-overturn-ban-on-police-parade-board-says-cops-still-cant-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/members-of-nyc-pride-group-vote-to-overturn-ban-on-police-parade-board-says-cops-still-cant-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Members Of NYC Pride Group Vote To Overturn Ban On Police, Parade Board Says Cops Still Can\u2019t March"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmembers-of-nyc-pride-group-vote-to-overturn-ban-on-police-parade-board-says-cops-still-cant-march%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=547157&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3705.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>New York City Heart Of Pride\u2019s (HOP\u2019s) membership voted, last week, to overturn a decision by the group\u2019s board of directors, to ban officers of the New York Police Department\u2019s Gay Officers Action League (GOAL) from marching in this year\u2019s Pride Parade, but HOP\u2019s board will not give in, doubling down on their decision to reduce the number of law enforcement at the annual LGBTQ event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLess than a week after Heritage of Pride (HOP), or NYC Pride,\u00a0announced a ban on police contingents through 2025, the organization\u2019s members voted on May 20 to allow the Gay Officers Action League (GOAL) to march armed and in uniform \u2014 but HOP\u2019s executive board subsequently stepped in and set their own policy,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaycitynews.com\/nyc-pride-overrules-membership-vote-police-policy\/\">Gay City News reported last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s board now says that the only way they will consider allowing GOAL into the parade is if, in the future, they pledge to march out of uniform, because armed and uniformed officers make parade attendees feel \u201cunsafe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the end, HOP\u2019s executive board voted to maintain the ban on GOAL members marching armed and in uniform, though the organization is \u2018willing to discuss the possibility of GOAL as a contingent marching out of uniform,&#8217;\u201d the LGBTQ news outlet said.<\/p>\n<p>HOP\u2019s announced, earlier in May, that they planned to eliminate law enforcement\u2019s presence at the annual Pride Parade, banning the GOAL from marching in the parade and pledging to reduce the number of uniformed officers at the event \u2014 one of the city\u2019s largest annual parades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice will be banned from participating in NYC Pride events, including its signature LGBTQ march, until 2025, the organization announced Saturday,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nyc-pride-bans-nypd-officers-from-pride-parade-votes-to-reduce-law-enforcement-presence\">the Daily Wire noted in May, citing an ABC News report<\/a>. \u201cNYC Pride is also working to reduce the New York Police Department\u2019s security and first responder presence at its events, the organization said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know many LGBT cops,\u201d Andre Thomas of Heritage of Pride said. \u201cBut what the institution represents sometimes to a person of color or trans person is violence, and that doesn\u2019t make you feel safe. So that\u2019s the perspective we\u2019re coming from. And it\u2019s a difficult place to be. But we know that\u2019s what our community expects of us at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HOP\u2019s decision banned \u201ccorrections and law enforcement exhibitors at NYC Pride events until 2025. At that time their participation will be reviewed by the Community Relations and Diversity, Accessibility, and Inclusion committees, as well as the Executive Board. In the meantime, NYC Pride will transition to providing increased community-based security and first responders, while simultaneously taking steps to reduce NYPD presence at events.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the group\u2019s membership voted to overrule the board\u2019s decision, the board doubled down, effectively lecturing HOP\u2019s members about intersectionality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NYPD, and policing across America, is fundamentally flawed,\u201d the board noted.\u201d These are institutions that started as slave patrols, and continue to oppress Black, Brown, Indigenous, POC, LGBTQ individuals and individuals who stand at the intersections of these identities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt fell under our purview to do so, as elected representatives of this organization, and we firmly believe that this decision is in the best interest of our community,\u201d the executive board added.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Heart Of Pride\u2019s (HOP\u2019s) membership voted, last week, to overturn a decision by the group\u2019s board of directors, to ban officers of the New York Police Department\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278691,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3705.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Members Of NYC Pride Group Vote To Overturn Ban On Police, Parade Board Says Cops Still Can\u2019t March","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3705.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Members Of NYC Pride Group Vote To Overturn Ban On Police, Parade Board Says Cops Still Can\u2019t March","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}