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Contents:

• PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
• COMG OUT AT WORK: WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE A GAY P NEW JERSEY
• NYC PRI PARA BANS POLICE; GAY OFFICERS 'DISHEARTENED'
• GAY POLICEMAN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• HARRY STYL’ ‘MY POLICEMAN’ GAY SEX SCEN ARE ACTUALLY HOT
• HE WAS ONE OF THE NATN’S MOST REVERED GAY PS. HIS ARRT CHANGED EVERYTHG.
• AS A GAY OFFICER I SAW HOW HOMOPHOBIC THE POLICE ARE
• POLICE AT PRI? GAY PS, LGBTQ ACTIVISTS STGGLE TO SEE EYE-TO-EYE
• SERGEANT HARRY DALEY: ‘HONOUR MET’S FIRST GAY POLICEMAN WH BLUE PLAQUE,’ SAY MPAIGNERS
• GAY COP

PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.

” The monstrators left angry but clash between protters and police fillg social media, prsure rose on Herage of Pri to rce police volvement, cludg banng the Gay Officers Actn League, which routely receiv effive cheers durg the Pri march. Fisher, who had lled for the vote of no Downey, print of the gay officers group, said he felt “betrayed” by the ban, pecially bee the officers “put so much of themselv on the choppg block” by workg to change practic and attus wh their partments.

COMG OUT AT WORK: WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE A GAY P NEW JERSEY

”It's not always easy to be a p who is gay, but each step forward helps pave the way for a better future work environment, Tracy ntu below galleryWell before Tracy ever put on the police uniform, Wtwood police Officer Larry Schwartz helped pave the way for gay officers. ”“The sense of safety that law enforcement is meant to provi n stead be threateng, and at tim dangero, to those our muny who are most often targeted wh excsive force and/or whout reason, ” the group will also crease the event's secury budget to boost the prence of muny-based secury and first rponrs while rcg the police partment's will provi first rponse and secury “only when absolutely necsary as mandated by cy officials, ” the group said, addg hoped to keep police officers at least one cy block away om event perimeter areas where of the ban me out Friday when the Gay Officers Actn League said a release was disheartened by the group lled the ban an “abpt about-face” and said the cisn “to plate some of the activists our muny is shameful.

”The para is schled for June after the ronavis prevented many Pri events worldwi last year, cludg New York which stead hosted virtual performanc ont of masked participants and honored ont-le workers the panmic disptns trated activists who had hoped to llectively mark the 50th anniversary of the first Gay Pri paras and march Chigo, Los Angel, New York and San Francis march me a year after the 1969 uprisg outsi Manhattan's Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, rponse to a police raid. (Photos urty of subjects)Ana Arboleda, a 12-year vet of the New York Police Department and a proud lbian, will never fet the mix of fear and joy she felt the first time she joed the New York Cy Pri March, uniform, as part of the Gay Officers Actn League New York (GOAL-NY), a volunteer-led anizatn that addrs the issu of LGBTQ ps and the muny at large. Decisns like the are rpons to unrlyg tensns between the LGBTQ muny and police that have a long and plited past, wh queer people historilly harassed and persecuted by law enforcement — most famoly, though not only, through the 1969 raid at the Stonewall Inn, at which a route police shakedown at the gay bar led fed-up patrons to stand up for their rights to exist, promptg the days-long Philalphia — where the official Pri event has been abptly nceled this year — tensns were high 2018, when police officers arrted a woman who l a Blue Liv Matter flag prott, ahead of the Pri Para.

NYC PRI PARA BANS POLICE; GAY OFFICERS 'DISHEARTENED'

(Photo: REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz)Still, spe his belief that policg is systemilly “whe supremacist and sexist and misogynist and homophobic, ” adds Walker, “I do thk the queer ps perhaps e to policg possibly for the noblt reasons, and perhaps they hontly want to keep the public safe.

’”In the midst of the ntroversy — as well as the celebratn and fierce, ntug fight for equaly this Pri month — Yahoo Life spoke wh some of the people at the center of the bate: LGBTQ law, hear om the many who shared their personal stori, givg their own take on what Arboleda so succctly explaed: “I’m proud to be a member of NYPD — but equally proud to be gay.

GAY POLICEMAN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

Ana Arboleda, New York Cy Police DepartmentAna Arboleda found her way to policg through both her Columbian herage and her gay inty as a kid growg up the Queens neighborhood of Jackson Heights — home to sizable Lato and LGBTQ populatns, which she says saw both good and bad treatment by didn’t e out right away — not while the police amy, at least. “We have to acknowledge the police enforcement is still a very whe, heterosexual, male-domated job… so I wanted to see how they were wh the gay thg first, ” Arboleda, vice print of GOAL-NY, she’s passnate about brgg change wh the NYPD. “Our queer siblgs need to know that the Gay Officers Actn League, a aternal anizatn of gays law enforcement, will ntue servg as an advote for our muny and a nscience for the Department, ” he Police Officer Greg Abbk, At Police DepartmentGreg Abbk of At, Texas, stggled for most of his life wh his genr inty and says that he’s fally found his place law enforcement, where he transned publicly 2015, after a on the job.

Behalf of all the members of the Gay Officers Actn League of New York, we thank everyone who has reached out over the last few Members and Friends, Sce Herage of Pri announced s cisn to ban GOAL om participatg Pri, we've been Journey 35 Years of GOALThe New York Cy Police Department (NYPD) has e a long way and we are proud to be a part of the posive chang. There are no legs flailg the air or stctively arched backs; this is a time before porn ma so gay men adjted their own pursu of pleasure to what they’ve seen “adult” films that are specifilly meant to tillate had a lot to prove My Policeman.

But unlike that film, which the extent of Styl’ timacy work was puttg his head unr a skirt, My Policeman prov he is pable of translatg the heartthrob charisma that has ma lns of fans swoon arenas around the world to the silver screen, My Policeman, the more experienced gay character guis the other, enuragg him to feel out what feels naturally pleasurable to him. Craig told reporters today that he did nothg appropriate and said his guilty plea was a plac like men's rtrooms, airports and tra statns, tck stops, universy librari and parks, have long been plac where gay and bisexual men, particularly those the closet, ngregate orr to meet for anonymo time, people faiar wh cisg told, gay men began g a dified system of signals to dite to others that they were terted sex. If a se like this went to trial, police officers would have to produce evince to say here is how we n say wh certaty this is was really a lewd act, " he plead guilty to the charg and therefore opted agast a, Craig nied beg gay and said he ma a mistake by pleadg officers, for the most part, only vtigate an area after members of the public have plaed about beg ed for sex, said Rich Gregson, executive director of the California Peace Officers Associatn.

HARRY STYL’ ‘MY POLICEMAN’ GAY SEX SCEN ARE ACTUALLY HOT

"Wh many other optns available for gay men to meet each other, Gershen Kfman, a profsor emer of psychology at Michigan State Universy and thor of the book "Comg Out of Shame, " said public cisg is practiced maly by eply closeted men. ’ ”The teenager began to tell the officers the story he would repeat at least three tim that night, cludg at the sexual asslt treatment center where he was taken after his parents were ’d met Parson on Growlr, a datg app for gay men that requir ers to be 18. The man who had jt driven away was known natnally and ternatnally as a pneer of gay rights the natn’s pal, Parson built an award-wng liaison un that vtigated hate crim, beiend advot and marched Pri paras, slowly revolutnizg the relatnship between the police and the cy’s LGBTQ muny.

Advot who work wh gay youth say ’s mon for teenagers to explore on datg apps that allow them to meet strangers, pecially if they don’t feel safe exprsg themselv at home or vulnerable kids also e datg apps to seek out adults who will pay them, though mors nnot legally nsent to beg purchased for sex.

HE WAS ONE OF THE NATN’S MOST REVERED GAY PS. HIS ARRT CHANGED EVERYTHG.

“I don’t thk a life should be stroyed over one foolish event late one night, pecially when the ntact was ma on a se where everyone is supposed to be a mimum of 18, ” said Rick Rosendall, former print of the Gay and Lbian Activists Alliance.

Senrs officers directed to do this bee, they said, the men were g a public when I thk about the se of Stephen Port – who was last week nvicted of murrg four young gay men, whose killgs tectiv failed to lk spe obv clu – the notn of stutnalised homophobia is at the foreont of my md. Jt before members of the Gay Officers Actn League (GOAL) marched past the Stonewall Inn, the fish le of last year’s New York Cy Pri March, a small group of activists slipped past the barriers and chaed their hands together to prevent the officers om passg, a prott technique lled a “lockdown.

AS A GAY OFFICER I SAW HOW HOMOPHOBIC THE POLICE ARE

”Dozens of ps workg secury at the march surround the protters, and, over shouts of “f--k the police” and “racist, sexist, anti-gay, NYPD, KKK, ” began to break through what appeared to be chas and bber tub the protters had ed to lock themselv together.

Pacific Prs / LightRocket via Getty Imag fileThe irony of the cint was not lost on many the crowd — ps arrtg gay people ont of the Stonewall Inn, the very place where homophobic police btaly sparked the morn LGBTQ rights movement nearly five s years prr.

POLICE AT PRI? GAY PS, LGBTQ ACTIVISTS STGGLE TO SEE EYE-TO-EYE

In fact, New York Cy’s first gay pri march, which was held on June 28, 1970, was anized to memorate the one-year anniversary of what has bee known as the Stonewall Rts — when 1969 patrons of the now-inic gay bar fally had enough after yet another police raid.

SERGEANT HARRY DALEY: ‘HONOUR MET’S FIRST GAY POLICEMAN WH BLUE PLAQUE,’ SAY MPAIGNERS

Nohels, protters say they’re dog so to take a stand agast police btaly and harassment of margalized groups, namely people of lor and the transgenr DAYS OF GOALThe relatnship between the police and the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny has long been ght, but for LGBTQ ps, the right to march pri is a hard-fought civil rights the after that first pri march on June 28, 1970, New York’s gay rights movement ma so much progrs that by 1981 the police force self was facg LGBTQ activism om wh. Gay ps New York Cy, for example, led by Officer Charl Cochrane, sought to form their own employee rource group, like the on that existed for Hispanic, Irish-Amerin and Ain-Amerin Rodriguez, now a retired NYPD sergeant, was still the New York Cy Police Amy when Officer Cochrane entered his classroom 1982.

GAY COP

”Rodriguez, who kept his sexualy to himself his early days as a p, relled overhearg on several ocsns racist, sexist and homophobic ments om his largely straight, whe and male lleagu back he was posted to New York Cy’s 6th Precct, which vers Greenwich Village, he relled a senr officer askg him, “So you work wh all the fags?

C., to Sacramento, a number of progrsive LGBTQ activists, some of them too young to remember the gay police activism of the ‘80s and ‘90s, view ps to be an unwele — and even threateng — prence at pri addn to gettg ps out of pri, many of the different activist groups also have an array of social jtice mands. ”NYPD Detective Brian Downey, the current print of the Gay Officers Actn League, said imagery of uniformed LGBTQ ps marchg proudly “is powerful, ” and he hop will prevent people the muny, like the trans woman Rodriguez scribed, om beg aaid of ps.