Pride organizers across America reveal their determination to plan safe marches and events after last week's incident in Idaho, and amid anti-LGBTQ hate and Republican-led bigotry.
—it is sponsor-free, corporation-free, and, by its own request, police do not actively patrol its flanks—as it sees law enforcement as one of the levers of LGBTQ oppression and violence it seeks to challenge.ev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images
—had not changed because of what had happened in Idaho. Organizers hoped NYPD would keep traffic away from the route from at least a block away, while on the march route itself marshals on foot and bike would help shepherd and protect those attending. Nocera hoped cops and law enforcement authorities were “doing all their policing research ahead of time” to ensure any planned attacks on the Queer Liberation March and/or main Pride parade did not reach a bloody and tragic fruition.
Dimant, like other Pride organizers, thought the present velocity of anti-LGBTQ hate was “pretty unprecedented. I do anticipate that there may be some Pride-goers who think twice before coming, and I understand and appreciate that. But I also believe it’s important we stand defiant against the attacks on our community. That’s why it’s so important that in spite of whatever may be going on, that we still show up and stand our ground. We don’t want our naysayers to win.
“What is concerning is the amount of comments of support it has had when articles run about it,” said Marsden. “It empowers people to say something in other forums. As we have seen in other states too, the level of business and other pushback like when HB2 [the notorious 2016 trans student bathroom ban] was passed just doesn’t seem to be there now.
“I don’t know if I assume acts of violence are inevitable, but it is hard to say they are not if what’s happening in this country right now isn’t addressed,” Porta added. “People hate, and when you’re that consumed with hate and fear at some point someone is going to act on that, especially if they are given permission to do so by political parties and the media. As long as inhumanity towards LGBTQ people is lifted up as OK, it’s always going to tempt someone else to do it.
In a statement, an NYPD spokesperson told The Daily Beast: “The New York Police Department provides a significant and complex counterterrorism overlay to the events and celebrations around Pride month each June in New York City. The department’s Intelligence Bureau also closely monitors all relevant streams of intelligence, in real time, as they relate to foreign terrorist groups or domestic violent extremists.
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