“Aurora Pride believes in supporting all organizations doing great work within our communities, and we also believe that support fundamentally happens when we are inclusive and not exclusive–by bringing people together and not pushing them apart,” the news release said. “Definitely, my LGBTQ colleagues will have an opportunity to be able to celebrate with our community.”Īurora Pride is hosted at Aurora Reservoir and will include a self-isolating and in-person option for their celebration. “Aurora Pride actually reached out and said that they’re excited to work closely with us and that we’re welcome at Aurora Pride this year,” Amsler said.
How is that making things any better? How is that bridging that gap? How is taking away the opportunity for us to interact with people who have fears beneficial positively? How can we improve community relations if we are being excluded from the community that is fearful of us?”Īurora has several LGBTQ community members that are high ranking on their law enforcement team. “But excluding us from being involved with a celebration of pride in our community. “The police have a horrible history with marginalized communities, and there is a history of police treating the LGBTQ community very poorly in the past,” he said.
