{"id":592088,"date":"2021-07-15T12:51:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T16:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=592088"},"modified":"2021-07-15T12:51:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T16:51:29","slug":"boston-pride-organization-dissolves-over-allegations-of-structural-racism-anti-transgender-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boston-pride-organization-dissolves-over-allegations-of-structural-racism-anti-transgender-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Pride Organization \u2018Dissolves\u2019 Over Allegations Of Structural Racism, Anti-Transgender Bias"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fboston-pride-organization-dissolves-over-allegations-of-structural-racism-anti-transgender-bias%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=592088&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\/06\/GettyImages-1159300800-scaled-e1617225996114.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>New England\u2019s largest LGBT advocacy organization, Boston Pride, announced this week that it intends to \u201cdissolve\u201d after being hit with repeated allegations of racism, and claims it \u201cignored\u201d transgender individuals.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s all-white board of directors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonpride.org\">issued a statement last Friday<\/a> indicating that it believed there was \u201cwork to be done,\u201d and apologizing for its lack of intersectionality and making way for \u201cnew leaders to emerge\u201d who are sufficiently attentive to progressive demands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor years, we have volunteered our time with Boston Pride because we care about and are passionate about the LGBTQIA+ community. We strived to foster an environment of diversity and unity within our organization and the community. Over the past 50 years, Boston Pride has facilitated programs and events that have changed our society and promoted equality, but we know there is still work to be done,\u201d the group said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is clear to us that our community needs and wants change without the involvement of Boston Pride,\u201d the group said, referencing pushback from far-left \u201canti-racism\u201d organizations. \u201cWe have heard the concerns of the QTBIPOC community and others. We care too much to stand in the way. Therefore, Boston Pride is dissolving. There will be no further events or programming planned, and the board is taking steps to close down the organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NBC News reported this week that the issues with Boston Pride began back in 2015 when \u201ca group of LGBTQ activists of color stopped the city\u2019s Pride parade to issue a series of demands, including more diversity in leadership.\u201d They only worsened in 2020, when the organization\u2019s board of directors reportedly removed a reference to the group Black Lives Matter in a statement from Boston Pride expressing solidarity with anti-police brutality and anti-racism protests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2020, a Boston Pride statement addressing police brutality after the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor reportedly removed any reference to Black Lives Matter, according to New England LGBTQ outlet The Rainbow Times, resulting in 80 percent of the group\u2019s volunteers to quit in protest,\u201d NBC News said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wrote in that statement, \u2018We stand with Black Lives Matter. We stand against police brutality,\u2019\u201d Casey Dooley, former Boston Black Pride chair, told a local news outlet at the time, per NBC. \u201cThe communications team then gave that letter to the board. The board then proceeded to take out Black Lives Matter and police brutality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The situation caused a mass exodus of support: \u201cTrans Resistance MA, Mass NOW and Pride for the People called for a boycott of Boston Pride. As a result, dozens of organizations, including Planned Parenthood and the LGBTQ legal advocacy group GLAD, withdrew support for the city\u2019s annual Pride march, and all major candidates abandoned Boston Pride\u2019s June 14, 2020, mayoral candidate forum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, Boston Pride is shuttering completely as a result of not being woke enough for local activists, and will likely be replaced by a group that calls itself \u201cBoston Pride 4 The People,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/artery\/2020\/07\/01\/lgbtq-activists-clash-with-boston-pride-demand-board-resignation\">per WBUR<\/a>, which aired its grievances with the Boston Pride organization earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lack of diversity throughout the Pride organization indicates that the inability of Boston Pride to address issues of racism and white privilege continues to be systemic,\u201d the group said in an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bp4thepeople.org\/openlettertotheboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">open letter<\/a> to the Boston Pride board, accusing the group of a \u201clong history of poor relationships with Greater Boston\u2019s communities of Queer &amp; Trans Black, Indigenous, People of Color.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear whether there will be a Boston Pride march. Initially, the event was rescheduled for October, but it now appears canceled.<\/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 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New England\u2019s largest LGBT advocacy organization, Boston Pride, announced this week that it intends to \u201cdissolve\u201d after being hit with repeated allegations of racism, and claims it \u201cignored\u201d transgender individuals.The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592088","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=592088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}