I have been attending  Pride days in Toronto for over thirty years ever since the march after the bath house raids of 1981.  It has been a long battle for equal rights, recognition and inclusion. Over the years I have met a good number of gay police men and women who serve proudly and with distinction and I cannot imagine a Pride Parade that would exclude them wearing the uniform they trained and worked so hard for because of a bunch of  malcontents who held up last year's parade up for ransom.
As much as it saddens me to say this, I do not want my tax dollars to support an event that fought hard for inclusion and acceptance (think of the shameful years of Mayor Art Eggleton tenure when he refused to declare Pride) that now would exclude a vital and necessary branch of what makes our city work so well.
I will also not be attending this year's Pride parade as a protest to the small-minded thinking of the Pride organizers. 
I thought that by now we all would be so much better than this.