A year after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down much of the world, and the resurgence of Black Lives Matter protests called for police reform and racial justice following the deaths of George Floyd and other Black persons at the hands of police, Heritage of Pride’s executive board reached a momentous decision: uniformed officers would be banned from all official Pride events through 2025. For years, Heritage of Pride, like other Pride organizations around the country, had been criticized for becoming too corporate, too pro-police, too white and cisgender, too exclusive of marginalized groups, including BIPOC and trans individuals, and too distant from its activist roots.įast forward to 2021. Photo by Jeffrey Grossman Kobby Daganīut despite the success of WorldPride, not all was well for Heritage of Pride, the non-profit organization responsible for producing the city’s official Pride events. The March alone drew an estimated 4 million people. It marked the first time that WorldPride was held in the U.S., lead- ing to the largest Pride celebration in New York’s history. The last time NYC Pride held a full roster of in-person events was in 2019, the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Riots that kicked off the gay civil rights movement.
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