In 2018, a protest delayed the parade by an hour. Twin Cities Pride parades now attract almost 400,000 viewers in its route along Hennepin Avenue in downtown Minneapolis. In response to the protest, officers marched midway through the parade rather than at the front as planned. Anthony, MN, police officer Jeronimo Yanez's recent acquittal of killing of Philando Castile. They objected to police involvement in the parade after St. In 2017, a group of Black Lives Matter protesters briefly halted the LGBT Parade. 2010s Įvents organized in June by Twin Cities Pride in the mid-2010s include family picnics, music concerts, a 5K run, and a festival featuring hundreds of exhibitors and vendors. Multiple music stages were added in the mid-1990s attendance in 1995 reached 100,000. The name of the organization was officially changed to "The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Committee" in 1993, one of the first pride event organizations to add bisexual and transgender to its name. The 1990s saw expansion of Twin Cities Pride activities, including vendor stalls and non-profit booths. In 1983, the two events reunified to form Lesbian and Gay Pride. The name was changed to "Lesbian-Gay Pride" in 1981, but changed back to "Gay Pride" the next year after an alternative Lesbian Pride event took place in Powderhorn Park. 1974's pride event included the first transgender speaker. In 1973 pride events in Minnesota consisted of a "Gay Pride Week" including a picnic, a march, a dance, a softball game, and canoeing, featuring 150 attendees. That said, we’ll still be there to ensure traffic safety and good order during this huge, complex event.The progenitor to the Twin Cities Pride Parade was a 50-person protest march in 1972 on the Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis, held on the third anniversary of the Stonewall riots.
She added: "The idea of officers being excluded is disheartening and runs counter to our shared values of inclusion and tolerance. The New York Police Department commissioner apologized for the raid during a briefing in 2019, calling it "wrong, plain and simple.”ĭetective Sophia Mason, a spokesperson for the New York Police Department, said on Saturday the department's “annual work to ensure a safe, enjoyable Pride season has been increasingly embraced by its participants.”
The Queer Liberation March aimed for a protest vibe, saying the main Pride march was too heavily policed by the same department that raided Stonewall a half century earlier.
In 2019, there were two marches in Manhattan after some in the community concluded that the annual parade had become too commercialized. Pride NYC's announcement Saturday follows a division among organizers in recent years in planning for celebrations of LGBTQ pride in New York City. Pride season occurs this year amid activism inspired by the response to racial injustice and police brutality in the wake of George Floyd’s death last year at the hands of police in Minneapolis. The uprising is largely credited with fueling the modern LGBTQ rights movement. Those marches came a year after the 1969 uprising outside Manhattan's Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, in response to a police raid. The disruptions frustrated activists who had hoped to collectively mark the 50th anniversary of the first Gay Pride parades and marches in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco in 1970. The parade is scheduled for June after the coronavirus prevented many Pride events worldwide last year, including in New York which instead hosted virtual performances in front of masked participants and honored front-line workers in the pandemic crisis. The group called the ban an “abrupt about-face” and said the decision “to placate some of the activists in our community is shameful.” Word of the ban came out Friday when the Gay Officers Action League said in a release it was disheartened by the decision.
Police will provide first response and security “only when absolutely necessary as mandated by city officials,” the group said, adding it hoped to keep police officers at least one city block away from event perimeter areas where possible.