11/21/2023 0 Comments Barney frank youngSo we took the abuse, and took it, until we finally had enough and fought back. And society didn’t care, because we ‘deserved it’. Cops beat us, cops raped us, cops stole from us, cops killed us. Allowing cops – the original villains of Pride – to March in Pride events now is like…allowing Nazi cosplayers to participate in Passover…its like allowing Confederate or KKK cosplayers take part in Black Pride events. If the police embrace reforms, including improved selection and training in non-lethal techniques, among other things, I would say revisit the issue in the years to come.ītw, what about the police who are on-duty at the parade who are assigned as security? How are they handling them being in uniform?īarney’s wealthy white male privilege is showing…Īnd, I’m sorry, and with all due respect to a revered gay elder, but he is absolutely wrong. (I always voted against the NRA having a float, and finally I was in the majority). I can understand the desire of some to ban uniforms, not people, from the parade, and if they had the votes, well it’s their parade – get your own. (Maybe ageist, but I know people in their 80s). He’s also 81, so I would listen respectfully, but not assume he’s in on the current thinking. So, of course, that means supporting police officers who happen to be gay. He imagines himself a working class New England non-Wasp who happens to be gay. Do they want something? We all want something and it is good for LGBTQ people in the end.įor me, an important aspect of Barney speaking out about this issue is that he fancies himself a champion of blue-collar/working class gays (see his former District and his husband). Their showing up back then was an act of courage they did not have to make. I will tell you that when this first happened we were stunned at the acceptance. Barney knew better then, and he knows better now.Īdditionally, today all the young woke people are offended, pearl-clutching breathless, over businesses, politicians and police marching with us. Now, while I enjoy those things, they did not help us in a parade and were exactly what made the news papers and evening news not the images to help us win elections. The parades have always been more positive than negative, but there were things in the parade that hurt us politically, like nuns with beards, men in assless chaps and women with their breasts defiantly exposed while astride motorcycles. 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 you have misrepresented Barney’s position, which was more nuanced, but you did that on purpose. It said, “NYC Pride seeks to create safer spaces for the LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC communities at a time when violence against marginalized groups, specifically BIPOC and trans communities, has continued to escalate. It released a statement outlining its reasons. Heritage of Pride, which organized NYC Pride events, announced its ban in mid-May. It is a blatant violation of the principle of fairness at the center of our struggle it is a distorted picture of the reality which we have worked to present and it is counterproductive to inform people in positions of some authority that they are guilty by definition - no matter how hard they fight on our side.” NYPD police officers providing security at NYC Pride in 2017 (Photo: Shutterstock) “Collective punishment that puts heroes and villains in the same category is flat out wrong on three fundamental counts. He ends by saying lumping all police in together is counterproductive to reforming police practices. “I do not deny that some wholly irrational fears exist I do object to letting those who suffer from such fears dictate to the rest of us with whom we can associate.” He then goes on to speak about several LGBTQ police officers he has known, some of whom he says helped change attitudes within the police through advocacy or legal challenges.įrank, who publicly came out as gay in 1987, dismisses the claim that cops on Pride marches can trigger trauma or anxiety in other participants. Related: New study reveals police stop LGBTQ people at a much higher rate But that very fact underlines the danger of letting our agenda be dictated by deferring to the small minorities within our ranks who compete with each other in a purer-than-thou contest.” “I am somewhat comforted by knowing that those who have made this decision speak for a small minority of the LGBT community. House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1981 to 2013, the ban goes against one of the guiding principles of Pride: “that people should be treated as individuals based on their behavior, and not on some prejudice against the category to which they belong. According to Frank, who served as a member of the U.S.
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