Sam Smith Criticized For Pride Instagram With Cops

However, it’s not all historical. Police violence towards LGBT — especially non-white and/or trans — people is very much still happening. In fact, the police have been banned from marching at NYC Pride until at least 2025 and the organizers aim to have officers at least a block away from the event’s perimeter where possible.

As a press release from NYC Pride put it at the time, “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 reason.”