Well, the Pride board was divided (I read elsewhere that they voted 4-3), and the community itself is diverse, as they say. There are gays who are very uncomfortable with edgy politics of any kind except equality for gays -- you won't be surprised to learn that they tend to be rather better heeled than average. Success has made the Pride organization more conservative, more bourgeois anxiety-ridden, more eager to please the guys with the big bucks and political influence. It's an old story, oft repeated, alas.
I do think citizens have a legitimate pov on what's happening, on the grounds that it is our governments -- city and federal -- who've made scurvy decisions (or in the city's case, scurvy threats) about what will be allowed at Pride, and that's a threat to all of us.