This year’s Queens Pride on Sunday featured what appeared to be the fewest groups marching since the parade came back after a pandemic-induced break in 2022. Several groups opposed to Israel’s war on Gaza boycotted the march, due to the LGBT Network’s support of “settler-colonial apartheid regime of Israel and its genocide of Palestinians.” In November, the organization rallied LGBTQ groups in support of Israel, and in an October op-ed, LGBT Network president David Kilmnick chastised LGBTQ groups for not rallying behind Israel.
“As a collective of queer Indigenous Tibetans who consider Jackson Heights our home in exile, we no longer want to participate in a Queens Pride overseen by pro-NYPD organizations that platform Zionism while Palestinians, queer and otherwise, are under siege,” wrote the Tibetan Equality Group in a Medium post explaining their decision to boycott.
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