NYC Pride Ban on Uniformed Police Reflects Deeper Tension, Professor Stein Tells Associated Press

ASSOCIATED PRESS -- The divide over whether uniformed police have a role in Pride “goes to the heart of one of the long standing tensions in LGBT politics,” said Marc Stein, History professor at San Francisco State University.

“Is the goal diversity, or is the goal addressing fundamental power relationships in society, and inequality?” he asked. “Those are two really different things.”