Gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman stated September 8 that he respects SF Pride's "process and decision.""I know this was not an easy step for Pride," Mandelman stated in a text message to the Bay Area Reporter. "It's important that all queer people feel safe at Pride, and it is evidence of the unfinished work of queer liberation that 51 years after Stonewall, many queer people do not feel safe around police. "That said, the work must continue, and I look forward to the day when Pride can welcome back the queer members of the San Francisco Police Department, many of whom every day do the brave, difficult work of transforming the department from within," he added.Mayor London Breed's spokesman told the B.A.R.