NYC Pride Members Vote To Rescind Ban On Cops In Parade, But Executive Board Reverses Their Reversal

Matt Tracy reports at Gay City News:

Less than a week after Heritage of Pride (HOP), or NYC Pride, announced a ban on police contingents through 2025, the organization’s members voted on May 20 to allow the Gay Officers Action League (GOAL) to march armed and in uniform — but HOP’s executive board subsequently stepped in and set their own policy.

In the end, HOP’s executive board voted to maintain the ban on GOAL members marching armed and in uniform, though the organization is “willing to discuss the possibility of GOAL as a contingent marching out of uniform.”

When reached by phone on May 21, GOAL president Brian Downey applauded the rank-and-file members of HOP who backed GOAL at the meeting.

Read the full article. There’s so much more. Reporter Andy Humm has the latest statement in full below.

After @NYCPride members voted last night to allow @GOALny to march armed and in uniform, the executive board stepped in and voted to maintain the ban on uniformed GOAL members.https://t.co/rly4jOxVCg

— Gay City News (@GayCityNews) May 21, 2021