County Sheriff’s Department, that’s fine, but no full uniform,” she said.
“They can march in matching T-shirts that say S.F. Law enforcement officers are welcome to march out of uniform, she added. “For some members of our community, the presence of the police in the parade is difficult for them given their history with the police department, so we want to honor and make sure we protect and make people feel safe,” Suzanne Ford, executive director of San Francisco Pride, told KGO. “We want to be able to show the members of our community that there are people just like you who put on these uniforms every day and are out there to support, help, and protect you.”īut Pride organizers say they put the restriction on uniforms in the parade because some in the LGBTQ+ community, particularly people of color, don’t feel supported and protected by police.
“I would really like San Francisco Pride to embrace the values of San Francisco, the values of radical inclusion,” Officer Kathryn Winters of the San Francisco Police Department Officers Pride Alliance told TV station KGO. LGBTQ+ officers from San Francisco’s police and sheriff’s departments say they’ll boycott this year’s Pride parade because they won’t be allowed to march in uniform, and Mayor London Breed says she won’t march either.