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NYC PRI PARA BANS POLICE; GAY OFFICERS 'DISHEARTENED'
That clus members of the Gay Officers Actn League, or GOAL, a aternal anizatn that was formed 1982 to addrs the needs of LGBTQ lled Herage of Pri's cisn "shameful, " and found s statement, which did not mentn GOAL by name, "moralizg" and "humanizg. "A police officer applds as para-goers celebrate durg the New York Cy Pri Para, New York, June 26, Evans/AP, FILEThe move as LGBTQ activists have bated the role uniformed police officers should have at Pri march, which formed as a rponse to a vlent police raid at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York Cy, 1969.
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When gay police officers first marched uniform the para 1996 — they sued for the right to do so — was seen by many as a victory. ”“The sense of safety that law enforcement is meant to provi n stead be threateng, and at tim dangero, to those our muny who are most often targeted wh excsive force and/or whout reason, ” the group will also crease the event's secury budget to boost the prence of muny-based secury and first rponrs while rcg the police partment's will provi first rponse and secury “only when absolutely necsary as mandated by cy officials, ” the group said, addg hoped to keep police officers at least one cy block away om event perimeter areas where of the ban me out Friday when the Gay Officers Actn League said a release was disheartened by the group lled the ban an “abpt about-face” and said the cisn “to plate some of the activists our muny is shameful. ”The para is schled for June after the ronavis prevented many Pri events worldwi last year, cludg New York which stead hosted virtual performanc ont of masked participants and honored ont-le workers the panmic disptns trated activists who had hoped to llectively mark the 50th anniversary of the first Gay Pri paras and march Chigo, Los Angel, New York and San Francis march me a year after the 1969 uprisg outsi Manhattan's Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, rponse to a police raid.