/news/marching-in-pride-parade-in-uniform-a-sign-of-respect-says-victoria-police/203106 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Thu, 20 May 2021 10:47:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 /news/marching-in-pride-parade-in-uniform-a-sign-of-respect-says-victoria-police/203106#comment-650346 Tue, 18 May 2021 23:01:46 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=203106#comment-650346 As one of the generation who came out when being gay was actually illegal and lived through the discrimination of the police of that time and as an ‘elder’ in our diverse community, I am fully supportive of the inclusion of the police in our Pride March. There are ‘bad apples’ in all communities, including a few in the LGBTIQ+ community too. However, the police and others in the LGBTIQ+ community ‘apple trees’ are full of good fruit. I can well remember that day in 2002 when the then chief commissioner Christine Nixon stared down the haters and led the Victoria Police in Pride March. There were tears of joy and pride in the eyes of the police as there were in mine and some of the ‘elders’ around me: what a day and what progress. It would be sad to see that progress take a step backwards.

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