Instead, it will use “private security, community leaders, and volunteers.”

NYC Pride wants to keep on-duty officers at least a block away from the parade route. (Last year’s parade was cancelled because of Covid, and this year’s celebrations will be drastically scaled down.) NYC Pride has informed the Gay Officers Action League (GOAL), which represents gay New York City police officers, that for at least the next five years the parade will exclude its members. Well, it turns out that not everybody is welcome at that parade. The group works toward a future “where all people have equal rights,” and to that end produces events designed to “celebrate our diverse community.” The most prominent of these events by far is New York’s annual Gay Pride Parade. At NYC Pride, aka Heritage of Pride, inclusion is Job One, if you believe its website. And nowhere is this truer than in the LGBT movement.

These are two of the watchwords, well-nigh sacred, of our woke era.