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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 male lover bar.

Some queer New Yorkers had a simple response: apology not accepted.

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

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

Queer and gender non-conforming activists across the US are engaging in “cops out of Pride” actions this month, with protests and alternative “cop-free” events that seek to distinguish the ongoing police mistreatment of LGBT people. These groups are pushing advocate against corporate-sponsored parades that embrace police in the name of “inclusion” and “unity” – and come back to the radical and riotous roots of the movement.

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

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