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It took half a century, but this LGBT Pride month, the New York police department (NYPD) finally apologized for the infamous 1969 raid on the Stonewall gay bar.

Some gender non-conforming New Yorkers had a simple response: apology not accepted.

“It was a symbolic PR stunt,” said Colin P Ashley, a local homosexual black activist. “The NYPD is still an oppressive press in so many lives.”

Ashley is part of Reclaim Self-acceptance, a coalition that wants more than a 50-year-late apology. The group wants police removed from Pride altogether.

Queer and trans activists across the US are engaging in “cops out of Pride” efforts this month, with protests and alternative “cop-free” events that seek to recognize the continuing police mistreatment of LGBT people. These groups are pushing back against corporate-sponsored parades that hug police in the name of “inclusion” and “unity” – and return to the radical and riotous roots of the movement.

“Police possess often been a force of terror for queer and trans communities,” said Malkia Devich Cyril, a queer activist and leader in the group Movement for Black Lives, who said they won’t

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