NYPD commish stands with armed gay cops on sidelines of NYC Pride March after slamming organizers for barring them

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch was pictured watching the NYC Pride March from the sidelines Sunday, weeks after slamming the exclusion of LGBTQ cops from walking in full uniform in the parade.About 75,000 people walked in the 57th annual Pride March Sunday afternoon, making their way down Fifth Avenue, turning onto Eighth Street and then up Seventh Avenue, where they passed the historic Stonewall Inn — the site of the violent 1969 police raid and uprising that kick-started the gay rights movement and inspired the march.But uniformed NYPD officers haven’t been among the marchers since 2021, when NYC Pride organizers Heritage of Pride first banned all active-duty law enforcement from marching with their service weapons –citing tensions between law enforcement and the LGBTQ community in the wake of the George Floyd protests.As NYPD regulations require uniformed officers to be armed, members of the Gay Officers Action League opted to skip marching ever since.At this year’s parade, New York City’s top cop was spotted watching behind metal barricades alongside a group of officers protesting the ban on cops marching in their uniform.Police pictured behind Tisch held signs reading “Gay cops will not be erased from Pride,” and “Pride March: Admit One,” along with an NYPD badge.Earlier this month, Tisch slammed the exclusion of LGBTQ cops from walking with their guns during Manhattan’s Pride March and instead walked in a Pride parade through Queens that allowed armed officers.“Once again, they banned NYPD officers from marching in full uniform later this month,” Tisch said of the Manhattan organizers during the June 7 Queens march.“That decision is as hypocritical as it is a slap in the face to the New York City Police Department and to the spirit of Pride.”Meanwhile, NYC Pride March organizers, who ironically picked the theme “For All of Us” for the 2026 march, went all in — naming the organization Gays Against Guns as one of its five grand...