The agency’s decision to bar employees from wearing their uniforms at Pride events sparked a firestorm.
Glacier National Park rangers and staff of the Glacier National Park Conservancy at the 2023 Pride Parade in Missoula, Montana. | Glacier National Park/Flickr
“It seemed like a really foolish decision, because there’s so many people within the park service who are LGBTQ or otherwise identify as within our community,” said Ella Richie Teresa DeMaria, a former ranger at Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks in California. Pride parades weren’t the only events officials were considering, that employee said. “Imagine if someone showed up at a gun rights rally in their park uniform,” that person said. “It’s not an outlandish idea” to try to limit participation in outside events, they added.“We recognize this reminder caused confusion and concern for some NPS employees, particularly around participation in non-NPS events,” said National Park Service spokesperson Stephanie Roulett.
Lands, who oversees all day-to-day operations for the agency, joined the park service in 2021 from the Army, where he had more than 20 years of experience managing natural and cultural resources and conservation programs.In a statement to reporters, Pattie Gonia said NPS was out to “equate identity to ideology” and that allowing employees to participate in Pride events in their uniforms was “directly in line with the park service’s mission to diversify their parks.
But that hasn’t ended all questions about the agency’s uniform policies, or how they relate to norms around sexual orientation or gender. President Joe Biden says that advancing equality for the LGBTQ+ community is a top priority for his administration.
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