{"id":10525,"date":"2022-05-24T10:25:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T17:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=10525"},"modified":"2022-05-24T10:25:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T17:25:56","slug":"san-francisco-firefighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/san-francisco-firefighters\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco firefighters won't participate in Gay Pride Parade if they are not allowed to wear their uniforms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pride Parade in San Francisco, Calif. on June 24, 2018. (Photo courtesy Nader Khouri) Bay City News<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

San Francisco police officers and firefighters said Monday they will not march in the city's annual Gay Pride Parade after organizers told them they would not be able to wear their uniforms during the parade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The San Francisco Police Officers Pride Alliance and LGBTQ+ members of the San Francisco Sheriff's Office issued a joint statement in response to the San Francisco Pride Committee calling on police officers to attend the parade without their uniforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LGBTQ+ firefighters from the San Francisco Fire Department also signed the statement and said they would not participate in the Pride Parade in solidarity with the city's law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Law enforcement and firefighters argued that Pride organizers, who voted in 2020 to ban uniformed officers after a summer of nationwide protests against police brutality, are being punished for the actions of other officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe San Francisco Pride Committee has called on LGBTQ+ law enforcement officers to come out,\u201d the law enforcement officers and firefighters said. \u201cSan Francisco and the San Francisco Pride Parade have always embraced radical inclusion as one of our core values.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

San Francisco officials and firefighters also argued that Pride organizers would not take similar action against other groups that regularly participate in Pride, such as the drag and kink communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis committee would not order the leather community to wear polyester to the parade. This committee would not order the drag community to wear flannel,\u201d they stressed. \u201cBut they have told us peace officers that if we wear our uniforms, we cannot attend.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SF Pride did not respond to a request for comment on the joint statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For their part, Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Matt Dorsey, one of two LGBTQ+ members of the city's Board of Supervisors, said they would also not attend the parade in solidarity with law enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dorsey, who was communications director for the San Francisco Police Department before Breed was appointed to the board earlier this month, called the policy \u201cexclusive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also called on Pride organizers and law enforcement officials to find common ground in an effort to attract more LGBTQ+ officers to fill the city's police shortage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll San Franciscans share a compelling interest in solving our public safety staffing crisis in a way that attracts the most diverse and qualified pool of candidates we can,\u201d she said. \u201cWe can do that by showing our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in our police, fire and sheriff departments.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, she explained, an exclusionary policy, which prohibits LGBTQ+ first responders and allies from marching in uniform, \u201csends exactly the wrong message at a time when we cannot afford to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 52nd annual San Francisco Pride celebration will take place at Civic Center Plaza from noon to 6 p.m. on June 25 and from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on June 26. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With information from Bay City News.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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