San Francisco Mayor London Breed says she will not march in the city's annual Pride parade in June unless its organizers reverse a ban on uniformed police officers from marching.
In 2017, Toronto Pride banned uniformed officers from participating in its annual march due to concerns of racial injustice raised by the Toronto chapter of Black Lives Matter. Vancouver's Pride parade followed suit in 2020.organizers of Pride events in New York City and Denver also recently banned uniformed police officers
On Monday, the San Francisco Police Officer’s Pride Alliance also denounced San Francisco Pride's uniform ban, pleading with the group's board of advisers to reverse its decision.statement "For LGBTQ+ officers, this brings us back to a time when we had to hide at work that we were LGBTQ+," the group added."Now they ask us to hide the fact of where we work."statement
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