That same month, Boston Pride brought on Dorrington & Saunders, a consulting firm specializing in diversity and inclusion. As a result, dozens of organizations, including Planned Parenthood and the LGBTQ legal advocacy group GLAD, withdrew support for the city’s annual Pride march, and all major candidates abandoned Boston Pride’s June 14, 2020, mayoral candidate forum.
The board then proceeded to take out Black Lives Matter and police brutality.”Īfter the incident, groups like Trans Resistance MA, Mass NOW and Pride for the People called for a boycott of Boston Pride. 'The communications team then gave that letter to the board.
We stand against police brutality,’” Casey Dooley, former Boston Black Pride chair, told WBUR. 'We wrote in that statement, 'We stand with Black Lives Matter. In 2020, a Boston Pride statement addressing police brutality after the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor reportedly removed any reference to Black Lives Matter, according to New England LGBTQ outlet The Rainbow Times, resulting in 80 percent of the group’s volunteers to quit in protest.
