Walker, an organizer from the Reclaim Pride Coalition, said to a crowd at Christopher Park on June 3. “Do not come near the Queer Liberation March this year,” Jay W.
Organizers of the Queer Liberation March, which started in 2019 and formed in response to the corporate and police presence at HOP’s annual march, have warned police against appearing at their events. The Queer Liberation March and the Dyke March are held without permits and do not have corporate sponsors. The march was originally slated to conclude with a rally at Washington Square Park, but the rally has been scrapped. From Bryant Park, the march will head west on 41st Street and turn south on Seventh Avenue before shifting east at Sheridan Square.
Those who plan to join in the Queer Liberation March will gather at Bryant Park at 2:30 p.m. NYPD officers will still be on hand to police the event. HOP’s virtual march and other activities comes a month after organizers announced a controversial ban on in-uniform police contingents from Pride. While the Reclaim Pride Coalition’s Queer Liberation March is the main in-person demonstration planned on June 27, HOP - which usually draws millions of people in normal years - will air a virtual march on ABC-7 from noon to 3 p.m.
