NYC Pride Bans NYPD & Law Enforcement Groups From Marching In Parades arrow The nonprofit group behind the country’s largest LGBTQ celebration has banned groups of uniformed law enforcement personnel, including NYPD’s Gay Officers Action League, from marching in its signature parades through 2025, and the group will hire private security in place of using the police for crowd control measures. “Effective immediately, NYC Pride will ban corrections and law enforcement exhibitors at NYC Pride events until 2025,” the organization said in a statement Saturday. “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.” Any police presence will be kept a block away from the Pride activities, organizers said. Individual officers who show up in uniform will be allowed to march, said NYC Pride co-chair André Thomas.