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“A person who is a member of two discrete subcultures will experience great stress, especially if they’re not accepted by one or both communities they belong to. Samuel believes GOAL and Heritage of Pride share the same goal. Pride organizers are “ironically” discriminating against their gay officers, who already face “great stress” just for being who they are, he said. The ban on gay cops marching Sunday has left those who straddle both worlds - LGBTQ and policing - struggling, said Michael Alcazar, a retired NYPD detective and adjunct professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. The ban stings even more, Samuel said, because GOAL and Heritage of Pride share the same mission to “enlarge the place of the queer community” in society. Law enforcement will be banned from Heritage of Pride’s events through 2025. As will about 300 to 400 other GOAL members. Samuel - a former board member of the Gay Officers Action League, which sued the NYPD in 1996 for the right to join the parade in uniform - will be left out in the cold. “Personally, it’s definitely disappointing.” “We’ve called shameful,” said Officer Jason Samuel, a gay nine-year veteran of the NYPD. “NYC Pride is unwilling to contribute in any way to creating an atmosphere of fear or harm for members of the community,” HOP said. “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,” the group said in a news release in May.
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Heritage of Pride, the non-profit behind the annual two-mile march through Chelsea, Greenwich Village and Midtown, banned law enforcement groups from participating because the group claimed cops pose a threat to their community. Gay NYPD cops barred from marching in Sunday’s New York City Pride March call the organizers’ decision to scorn a certain segment of the LGBTQ community “shameful.” San Francisco Mayor London Breed, police groups opt out of Pride parade over uniform ban Inclusive? Adams condemns exclusion of NYPD officers from Gay Pride Parade