So, Black Lives Matter (BLM) hijacks the annual Pride parade last year and now city council is poised to punish gay and lesbian police officers for it.

If the logic of this escapes you, welcome to City Hall. That’s where Mayor John Tory and a city committee have thrown their support behind giving Pride $260,000 this year, despite the fact it’s discriminating against gay and lesbian police officers, and all Toronto cops.

Indeed, it is gay and lesbian police officers and their colleagues who, through their union, have asked council to discontinue the annual grant, as long as Pride doesn’t want them appearing in its June 25 parade in uniform.

Pride’s eleventh-hour “concession”, that officers are welcome if they don’t wear their uniforms, is utter nonsense.

How was Pride going to stop non-uniformed officers from participating in the parade, assuming any of them would want to at this point?

Pride is operating at the behest of the anti-cop BLM, which temporarily shut down the parade last year and has made keeping uniformed officers out of this year’s parade its cause celebre. There’s so much political dishonesty going on here it would be laughable if it wasn’t so revolting.

Pride’s claim the mere sight of uniformed police officers in the parade will make some gays and lesbians feel threatened — despite the fact uniformed officers have participated for years in the parade without incident — is absurd.

It’s absurd because uniformed officers will still be along the parade route, doing traffic control and public security duties.

So, according to Pride’s, um, “logic”, members of the LGBTQ community will only feel threatened if uniformed officers are in the parade, as opposed to doing their jobs along the route.

What’s really going on is an attempt by Pride/BLM to demonize and delegitimize the police. That’s what makes the position of city politicians supporting the $260,000 grant for Pride so shocking.

Pride doesn’t even need the grant, given its level of corporate sponsorships.

The final decision will be made at council’s May 24 meeting, where Coun. John Campbell has a motion calling for council to withdraw the Pride grant until the organization comes to its senses.

Every councillor should support it. Alarmingly, most probably won’t.