Members of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras will vote on a contentious proposal to remove police and corrective services from the parade at the organisation's annual general meeting.
Early morning revelers seen on Oxford Street following the 42nd annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade in Sydney, Sunday, March 1, 2020."The Black Lives Matter movement has inspired a global responsibility of every human to recognise the damage and the enormous human life cost that comes at the hands of the police," Pride in Protest organiser Bridget Harilaou told AAP.
More than 1000 people signed the letter, including prominent performers Tom Ballard, Montaigne, and Brendan Maclean. A number of the signatories have performed or spoken at official Mardi Gras events. The group will put forward a number of other motions, including a call to formally disinvite Scott Morrison and Gladys Berejiklian from the 2021 parade. They also want Mardi Gras to support defunding the police and abolishing prisons.
Hypocrites.
How ridiculous❗ After all the fighting for equality and to be recognized, they want to go backwards❓ Must have idiots on their committee🤔🤔🤔
From the genius' that brought you defund the police.
Inclusiveness is a convenient thing when you need it, then when it becomes inconvenient, deny it to others.
Remove the police from the Mardi Gras event ? Good luck, to whomever attends, just make sure you wear arse bandit proof steel mesh underwear...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The cop in the Village People won't be happy...
Plenty of LGBTIQ are religious. Are we going to exclude also? Terrible decision. They are isolated enough already.
Talk about not being inclusive
How very inclusive of them.
Why?
Fine. Then give the police the night altogether. No police in sight of the parade
For a community that prides themselves on inclusiveness, this is very divisive, and frankly wrong. A couple of bad apples should not make the case for the entire police force, just like a couple of gay pedo’s shouldn’t make the case for the entire LGBT community.
For what fkn reason?
What a disgrace
Police played a huge part in being the oppressors of the lgbt community so I've never understood why they're been included.
Your brain on intersectionality...
Same thing happened in the Auckland Mardi Gras, boy did it backfire on them, along with sponsorship money withdrawn.
There are gay police morons
The Left, inclusive and loving!
I feel a lot of anger aimed at police in Australia is actually aimed at American police with no awareness of the huge differences between the two.
Jesus christ really? And when a person gets bashed or.myrderd because they're gay then what?
Watch these people become animals - actually worse than animals give em an inch they take a mile
Who gives a shit about these idiot's.
Sounds like discrimination to me, which makes them hypocritical, which goes against everything they 'stand' for🤦♂️
BLM is a US issue. Police are not killing black people here in Australia. Why should Aussie cops be punished for what US cops do? Also, who are they gonna call if there are gay bashings or whatever during the Mardi Gras?
disgusting.
Cops are not your friends. ACAB
just another excuse for people in the Gay community to get drunk and take drugs ? maybe Police should exclude them from attending urgent calls ? hyprictical, exclude a group from attending the parade ?
ACAB
This is a terrible retrograde proposal. Decades of work went into improving relationships, educate and implementing the Gay & Lesbian Liaison Officers network + for police, military & emergency services to participate. Most cops marching are GLLOS. Visibility builds bridges!
No surprises
This worries me as the LGBTIQ should be inclusive. If we isolate people by excluding them and stigmatising them aren't we doing the very thing that was done to the LGBTIQ for so long. Not all police and corrections officer's are corrupt. Don't they deserve to have a voice too.
ACAB
Bad move.
We’re all in this together...except....what if one of the police reps was gay and black? Hmmmm....
So they can do what exactly? If you don't want police at your event, your event is dodgy, simple as that.
Bwaaa ha ha yeah go for it. Police would be happy. Guarantee tho, the second 1 Trans hears a dispareging name, Who they gonna call Ghostbusters Leslie aint gonna help. Leave these fools to emselves.
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