today i have to facilitate community consultations for my city's terrible Pride festival and i am Not looking forward to it

i mean, by 'have to' i mean 'infiltrated their management via volunteering because an activist group i'm in is trying to get cops kicked out of pride and this seemed like a good way to influence the process'

but i am still not looking forward to trying to wrangle a bunch of libs into not acting like cops are entitled to queer spaces

i am probably going to hate this because i hate people IRL but our pride has repeatedly shown that it absolutely cannot be trusted to treat people of colour with any respect to speak of so, here we are
last year when some Black activists tried to get cops out, the pride committee literally had a 'secret meeting' (their words) with their almost-entirely-white committee and like 3 activists that was apparently 97% White Guilt and But Excluding Cops Is Mean