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From the archives, the MUUS Collection looks back on iconic images from NYC Pride throughout the decades. It was the largest parade of any kind in the city’s history. The twelve-hour parade included 150,000 pre-registered participants among 695 groups. Most recently, in 2019, an estimated four million attended the parade as part of Stonewall 50-WorldPride NYC. It is estimated that the first Pride Day in 1970 saw a crowd of about 5,000 people and extended for about 15 city blocks. McDarrah photographed nearly every NYC Pride Day from the 1970s through the 1990s. McDarrah was not only present to capture the original uprising at Stonewall, but also had the foresight to recognize that the earliest Pride Day celebrations would be historic moments in their own right. The first NYC pride march, then known as “Gay Liberation Day,” was held on Jto commemorate the Stonewall uprising the year before, which helped spark the modern LGBTQ rights movement. They don’t want the cops ruining their parade? I’m sure police can find more effective uses of their time on duty than patrolling a place where they’re not wanted.The MUUS Collection celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the NYC Pride March. Perhaps the NYPD officers assigned to protect parade-goers during the next Pride event can call in sick or take some other action to demonstrate their willingness to give in to the fears of POC and LGBTQ snowflakes. Oh well, no one has ever accused activists of being rational or logical. I cannot believe that anyone at a parade would feel threatened by the sight of a police officer protecting marchers from danger. The only people who feel threatened are those who are told to feel threatened. These people can’t see the utter stupidity in banning police participation - including the participation of gay officers - because police make some people nervous. “I have used a position of considerable power … to open the door for other people that don’t share my same experience and give them a voice at the table.” “Having the courage to go into the institution as a gay or queer person… you’re going in there with that struggle that is your own identity and you’re bringing it inside that system,” Downey said. This was progress, it wasn’t contention,” Downey told The Post Saturday night. Hallonquist and many others, the NYC Dyke March, which takes place every year on the last Saturday in June the day before NYC Pride’s main event is the place to be. “GOAL was embraced by the community because it was viewed as agents of change. “This announcement follows many months of conversation and discussion with key stakeholders in the community,” said NYC Pride Co-Chair André Thomas.Ĭops are gay, too, and not surprisingly, the decision to ban police participation isn’t going over too well.ĭetective Brian Downey, 41, president of the NYPD’s Gay Officers Action League, said hundreds of members of the police department have been marching for nearly four decades in good faith and solidarity with the community. The recent nationwide reckoning of police violence inspired Heritage of Pride, the group that produces the event, to reexamine its relationship with the police - who were previously invited to march in the parade as it became more mainstream. “NYC Pride is unwilling to contribute in any way to creating an atmosphere of fear or harm for members of the community.” “The sense of safety that law enforcement is meant to provide can instead be threatening, and at times dangerous, to those in our community who are most often targeted with excessive force and/or without reason,” organizers said in a press release. I’m sure nurses and lab techs would be able to head off any trouble at the next gay pride parade. The organization also said it would take steps to minimize police protection presence at its events by hiring private security and other “first responders” who aren’t police.