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In 2021, the folks running the city's Gay Pride March celebrating people's right to be as they are, issued a blatantly unfair ban against gay police officers marching while wearing their uniforms ...
For the fifth straight year, the folks who run the city's Pride parade banned cops from marching in uniform: Gay officers have to closet their NYPD affiliation to participate.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch, wrote a scathing letter Saturday, condemning Heritage of Pride’s decision to exclude LGBTQ+ members of the department from ...
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch called the exclusion of gay cops in the city’s upcoming Pride March “deeply offensive” and “the height of hypocrisy” Friday as the ban reaches its fifth ...
NYPD Det. Brian Downey, center, president of the Gay Officers Action League, with Mayor Eric Adams and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Friday, as they discussed the exclusion of Downey's ...
The NYPD's Gay Officers Action League are not allowed to march with their weapons NYPD commissioner talks Pride prep, chides organizers for excluding armed, gay officers - Gothamist Gothamist ...
Since 2021, uniformed officers, including the Gay Officers Action League, or GOAL, have been banned from marching in the official Pride March. This year, that ban was lifted, but there’s still a ...
An L.G.B.T.Q. officers’ group had been barred from New York City’s Pride March since 2021. This year, organizers said they could participate only if they left their weapons at home.
With the NYC Pride March happening Sunday, a group of LGBTQIA+ police officers say they feel discriminated against by their own community. CBS News New York's Derick Waller reports.
LGBTQ+ NYPD officer group wants to participate in Pride March in uniform 03:08. The Gay Officers Action League (GOAL) – an organization of LGBTQIA+ New York City Police Department officers ...