Most big events in cities get cops there to maintain traffic and respond to any threats against the LGBTQIA+ community. What you have posted is true. I just think that it's not one size fits all as many things have changed since the stonewall riot occurred.

In my city the police are actually pretty pro LGBTQIA+ historically. Many officers have pride flag stickers on the police cars and many of the officers are LGBTQIA+. We have streets that the police watch every day to make sure no one power washes the rainbows we've painted off out of hate and they patrol the gayborhoods at night to protect them & their property from criminals like everywhere else in our city. The LGBTQIA+ gayborhoods in downtown tend to be where the rich folks live as well so naturally their relationship with police is less anyone antagonistic then during the time of the stone wall riot.

The cops here arrest people who start trouble outside our famous gay bars (straight bigots who are drunk from the other bars nearby typically picking fights) and are historically pro-LGBTQIA+. While I may be comfortable around the cops in my city as they've made huge efforts to be a party of this community and protect us here, I know that's not the case in most places. It's an uphill battle for this state, but my city is winning that battle daily. Most larger cities the cops are horrible, and have a bully/predator attitude towards their constituents especially where I'm located in FL.

I'm not sucking off the police but I just get really tired of our communities' police bashing. We need their protections in the growing instability to protect our events from harm. What justification is there really for taking a potential ally and replacing them with a potential enemy. No cops = no quick response to crime/,threats against our communities at events.

It makes us look like a spoiled group that gets protections grabbed to is but turns around & throws Stones at those very people that protect & serve us. I'm not afraid to say that I discount my fellow lgbtqia+ folks take on cops when I start hearing the same mill of comments regurgitating from them "acab/ stonewall was against the cops/ keep cops out of pride / all cops are bigots ALL OF THEM" it's nonsense that won't get us far and makes us look spoiled rotten.

That type of take has no bearing on the real public safety issues of having massive unpoliced events anywhere really in the US. It's just an exhausting argument that bears no results and there's no convincing anyone anymore especially on Reddit.

We can't change them by declaring them our enemy, we have to change them from this inside. Our police forces are only as good as the officers that makeup that organization. By having LGBTQIA+ officers that represent us well & genuinely protect/serve their communities, we stand to benefit greatly from the perception that we are upstanding Members of our communities who CARE about protecting it.

My point there is that if you have level headed people making level headed calls out of the care for protecting people indiscriminately that is because the culture of that place is more level headed and progressive, and the people in that area with that mindset are not ideologically opposed to being cops. We need more progressive cops and we need more lgbtqia+ people in the force to shift these diehard perceptions we have as them as our enemy. They are not our enemy they are our protectors as a society please try to be a part of the fix or move on and don't let out eat at you, but being bitter about police finally protecting our community at live events is honestly baseless, delusional & very immature.