Historically, Pride is an empowered response to police violence — a memorial of the Stonewall Riots in 1970. But for many SFPD LGBTQ+ officers, being unable to walk in the parade in uniform is akin to being 'pushed back into the closet.”
A San Francisco police officer wears the SFPD’s rainbow-patterned Pride patch at a Pride Month event in June 2019. As the Pride Parade returns June 26 for the first time since the pandemic, officers who identify as LGBTQ announced they will not march in the parade if they cannot march in their uniforms.
The decision to drop out of this year’s festivities, announced by the San Francisco Police Officers Pride Alliance in a press release on Monday, caps more than two years of tension between organizers of S.F. Pride and the LGBTQ members of local law enforcement agencies over the latter’s role in the parade.
The compromise organizers attempted to forge was to allow officers to march in the parade — but only in civilian clothing, not a uniform. The officers would be allowed to march together and wear matching shirts that identify them clearly as LGBTQ officers, according to organizers. Suzanne Ford, interim executive director of S.F. Pride, said the organization’s job was to “honor the progress and the past, and also to say that we have a lot more work to do.”“We changed these organizations from within by providing a wider cultural competency that has made San Francisco home to the country’s most diverse peace officer organizations,” the Police Officers Pride Alliance wrote.
Dorsey is in a unique position as a gay man and, prior to his appointment as a supervisor, the top spokesperson for the San Francisco Police Department. Reached by The Examiner on Monday, he described the decision as a simple one, because it’s “genuinely where my heart is.” It was in part a way to honor people like Wayne Friday, a former police commissioner, and Dennis Collins, a former investigator in the District Attorney’s office, he said.Dorsey warned that S.F.
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