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Ana Arboleda always makes sure her police uniform is crisp and clean when she leaves home but never more so than on New York’s annual Pride celebration, when two parts of her identity converge.
Ms. Arboleda is a sergeant in the New York Police Department; she is also a lesbian and feels most connected to the L.G.B.T.Q. community when she marches down Fifth Avenue with the Gay Officers Action League during New York’s annual Pride celebration, taking in the crowd’s thunderous applause.
This year Ms. Arboleda is not certain whether she will participate. The city’s Pride organizers are taking steps to reduce the presence of law enforcement at the celebration, including a ban on uniformed police and corrections officers marching as groups until at least 2025 a decision that she called “devastating.”
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Organizers of New York City s annual LGBT pride parade have announced that the police will not be welcome at their supposedly inclusive and celebratory event this year, and beyond. They say they will not allow organizations of gay officers to participate, and they ll use private security to secure the festivities, asking NYPD to keep their distance.
Leave it to woke activists to target a unifying community event as an opportunity to sow division. Indeed, sowing division and exerting power are their specialities, after all:
Starting this year,
police and corrections officers will also not be allowed to participate as a group in the annual Pride march until at least 2025. The ban includes the Gay Officers Action League, an organization of L.G.B.T.Q. police, which announced the news in a statement on Friday night.
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Organizers are also looking to limit the NYPD s presence at its events.
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Police will be banned from participating in NYC Pride events, including its signature LGBTQ march, until 2025, the organization announced Saturday.
NYC Pride is also working to reduce the New York Police Department s security and first responder presence at its events, the organization said.