A week after San Francisco first responders and the city’s mayor said they would skip this year’s Pride Parade because of organizers’ new ban on uniformed officers taking part, Mayor London Breed’s office said Thursday that a compromise will allow a small group of police officers to march in uniform.
Members of the Officers Pride Alliance, comprising LGBTQ members of the San Francisco Police Department, along with firefighters and sheriff’s deputies, had said they would boycott the June 26 parade over the decision not to allow officers to wear their uniforms, which would have taken effect for the first time this year.
On May 23, Breed said she too would skip the parade to support law enforcement and first responders who she said were not being valued for their work.
