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Contents:

• THE COPS STANDG WH, AND FOR, THE GAY COMMUNI THEY SERVE
• COMG OUT AT WORK: WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE A GAY P NEW JERSEY
• SERGEANT HARRY DALEY: ‘HONOUR MET’S FIRST GAY POLICEMAN WH BLUE PLAQUE,’ SAY MPAIGNERS
• GAY POLICEMAN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• THE HANDSOME UNRVER P S. IS HE ENTRAPPG GAY MEN OR CLEANG UP A PARK?
• HARRY STYL’ ‘MY POLICEMAN’ GAY SEX SCEN ARE ACTUALLY HOT
• PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
• HARRY STYL' LEADG MAN TURN AS A GAY POLICEMAN IS ALREADY GETTG RAVE REVIEWS
• HE WAS ONE OF THE NATN’S MOST REVERED GAY PS. HIS ARRT CHANGED EVERYTHG.
• HARRY STYL STARS AS GAY P STEAMY ‘MY POLICEMAN’ TRAILER

THE COPS STANDG WH, AND FOR, THE GAY COMMUNI THEY SERVE

But as the print of the force’s only LGBTQ aternal anizatn — the Gay Officers Actn League, or GOAL — his other role is to serve and support his brothers and sisters drsed blue … and rabows.

“It’s an ongog procs, y, but ’s important for the [gay muny] — which has this mentaly based on history that you n’t be both gay and a police officer — to see that there are gay ps out there. Before he joed the force 17 years ago, Locke was a social worker and director at the Gay and Lbian Anti-Vlence Project, where he vtigated s of police vlence agast the gay muny.

On June 12, a few weeks before this year’s Pri Para, Downey stood at the ont of an dorium New York’s police headquarters for an annual event to honor the cy’s gay officers. Even as recently as a few years ago, GOAL wasn’t allowed to hold Pri Month events, like the one this month to regnize their gay lleagu, at police headquarters. ”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.

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

Schwartz remends other gay ps get volved and take the time to fd peers and seek help if there are road for officers who e out as gay to lleagu has not always been smooth. Sergeant Harry Daley, said to be spiratn for TV seri Dixon of Dock Green, was “wildly discreet” even though homosexualy was illegal at the joed the Metropolan Police 1925 and worked Hammersmh, Wtmster and Wandsworth for 25 Daley was the lover of celebrated thor E. Colleagu ma a distctn between his sexualy and men they harassed and arrted for Daley died 1971 the former fay home Dorkg he shared his brother David, who was also gay, and David’s long-term partner John.

Sergeant Harry Daley pated by Dunn Grant 1930 / Dunn Grant Sgt Daley’s name nnot be re-nomated until 2027, when another panel would reasss his Stephen Bourne’s 2017 book Fightg Proud: The Untold Story Of The Gay Men Who Served In Two World Wars featur a chapter on Sgt has gaed renew promence durg LGBTQ+ History month and programm like Channel 4’s acclaimed drama It’s A S about the Aids Bourne said: “Harry Daley was greatly loved the muni he served.

His fisherman father died at sea 1911 and olr brother Joseph was killed actn jt a few days before the end of World War wasn’t until 1967, that male homosexualy was crimalised. “Whilst Harry Daley was the first openly gay officer to serve the Met that we are currently aware of, his historil profile and signifince was not strong enough to persua the panel on this ocsn. Harry Styl Has Numero Gay Sex Scen, And My Policeman Is Rated R For Sexual ContentBee Harry Styl’ character is at the center of My Policeman’s love triangle, he’s got major sequenc wh both of his -stars, cludg a ton of love scen.

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

But the unrver operatn, which was sharply cricized recently by a judge, also exemplifi a ntroversial, age-old police tactic that many of California’s largt law enforcement agenci have quietly abandoned recent years amid mountg cricism and changg sexual the most-read stori this hour >>In Los Angel, Long Beach and other areas where unrver lewd nduct stgs endure, police fend them as an important tool for tchg people who are vlatg the law and for terrg others om tryg to have sex parks and other public areas ed by fai and activists do not ndone public sex but have long nmned the bts as a form of entrapment, sayg they unfairly sgle out gay men, wh sometim vastatg nsequenc. “Nobody is gog to fend lewd nduct, but there is a qualative difference between sexual predators and people who engage boorish behavr, ” said Los Angel County Asssor Jefey Prang, who is gay and a former special assistant the Sheriff’s Department who worked wh s LGBT advisory uncil. Last month, a Los Angel County judge threw out the charg one se stemmg om Long Beach’s 2014 operatn, sayg police were discrimatg agast gay law enforcement agenci have stopped rponse to lawsus or after polil backlash.

GAY POLICEMAN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

While lewd nduct plats have dropped dramatilly recent years, Neiman said stgs have been ed to shut down persistent hotspots for gay cisg and lewd acts 11 tim sce 2014.

THE HANDSOME UNRVER P S. IS HE ENTRAPPG GAY MEN OR CLEANG UP A PARK?

“You still have to enforce the law when you get plats, ” he e of unrver ps to target gay men Southern California stretch back to the early 20th century, when gay sex was illegal, said Lillian Farman, a historian and thor of “Gay L. Brown, “vice specialists” who loered public rtrooms and other areas while rryg out so-lled “pury mpaigns” aimed at gay men Long Beach and Los Angel, Farman wrote, addg that their methods served as a mol for stgs throughout Southern pair had no prr police trag but were given police badg both ci. They were paid for each arrt and offered their servic to other major ci, she 1914, The Tim reported on an operatn which the two helped arrt 31 men acced of engagg gay sex at private clubs Long Beach.

”Wt Hollywood Councilman John Duran, an attorney who has reprented men cisg s for 30 years, said a typil client was a “eply closeted gay or bisexual man who had hidn renzvo public plac. ” Many, he said, had low self-teem and turned to cisg bee they thought they were unservg of the LGBT movement, said Duran, who is gay, “has produced new generatns of out and proud people who believe they n have healthy sexual enunters. ” Growg public support of gay rights and the prence of openly gay officers police partments has put prsure on agenci to stop g stgs, he y operatns have drawn fierce Sprgs police sparked outrage 2009 when officers arrted 19 men an unrver stg a neighborhood known for gay rorts.

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

Pl Ford, supervisor of the agency’s tective Long Beach, gay-rights activists said they were troubled — and surprised — to see stgs still beg ployed a cy wh a vibrant LGBT muny and an openly gay Beach police took more than two dozen men to ctody durg y operatns om 2012 to 2014, acrdg to Bce Nickerson, a civil rights of those men was Rory Moroney, who was arrted the Recreatn Park stg the day he was arrted, Moroney said he was g his laptop the park to search for jobs. ”ALSOLong Beach’s sad history of targetg gay men for arrtHow gay men Long Beach were targeted by police and mocked by The Tim a century agoJudge slams gay sex stgs by Long Beach police, llg them discrimatoryhailey.

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

"For months now, pictur and reports have e out of My Policeman tailg Styl' approach to playg a gay character and what viewers n expect om his performance the film.

The most “rnchy” scen herald, awards-ba gay films like Brokeback Mounta or Milk eher remove a cent amount of pleasure om the sex to make more emotnally weighty, or film briefly, through a crack a door, before cuttg to black.

HARRY STYL' LEADG MAN TURN AS A GAY POLICEMAN IS ALREADY GETTG RAVE REVIEWS

Typilly, gay sex scen that actually pict gay characters “gog at ” are rerved for queer cema ma by and for queer people—which is to say the are often very small pennt films that don’t reach a wi dience. 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.

What bothered me the most about his ments on gay sex film wasn’t jt that they were wrong, but that his statement implied that gay sex exists as a bary: only rough fuckg or tenr and soft. )Kate Wslet and Saoirse Ronan on the Power and Joy of Filmg ‘Ammone’s’ Gay Sex ScenBut Carol and My Policeman both unrstand that much of our longg and sire is done silence.

That's a setback for the e of NEWSJune 27, 2021Gay ps ‘disappoted’ by Pri’s law-enforcement banNY POSTJune 26, 2021LGBTQ Police Officers Derve a Place the NYC Pri MarchLA BLADEJune 26, 2021NYPD Gay Officers Unn Head Speaks Out Over Pri's Cop BanWCBS NEWS RADIO 880June 25, 2021NYPD officers speak out about beg siled Pri marchCNNJune 25, 2021NYC Pri anizers lled out by gay officers for banng police om para: This is not 'cln'FOX NEWSJune 25, 2021#TogetherInPri: NYPD, Gay Officers Actn League Highlight Progrs For LGBTQIA+ MembersCBS NEW YORKJune 24, 2021NYPD, GOAL Unveil Internal Effort to Foc on LGBTQ CommunyGAY CITY NEWSJune 24, 2021NYC Pri Ban On Police Uniforms Reflects TensnsASSOCIATED PRESS TELEVISION NEWSJune 24, 2021NYPD Detective reacts to the NYC Pri Para banng uniformed ps om marchgMSNBCJune 24, 2021LGBTQ ps want Pri anizers to 'stop seeg as the enemy'YAHOO!

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

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HARRY STYL STARS AS GAY P STEAMY ‘MY POLICEMAN’ TRAILER

Gay ps, LGBTQ activists stggle to see eye-to-eyeNBC NewsJune 23, 2018NYPD outl secury for NYC Pri MarchNY 1June 22, 2018The Cops Standg Wh, and for, the Gay Communi They ServeNatn SwellJune 22, 2018NYPD Honors 9/11 Hero Whose Health Is DeterratgNBC 4 New YorkJune 13, 2018Auxiliary officer who got ncer after rpondg as a civilian to Ground Zero honored at NYPD gay pri eventNY Daily NewsJune 13, 2018GOAL NY on Elvis Duran & The Morng Show Discs 2018 Natnal Police WeekZ-100 Elvis Duran & The Morng ShowMay 15, 2018GOAL’s Marathon for Acceptance the NYPDGay Cy NewsMay 09, 2018Police rally for former SWAT officer who says he was harassed for beg gayPIX 11Febary 27, 2018Fellow officers rally for laid-off p who says he was targeted for beg gayNJ. Febary 23, 2018New York’s Police Department Gets Real Gay for PriHorJune 23, 2017NYPD provis clear guil for how transgenr ps n rm superrs of preferred pronouns, namNY Daily NewsJune 22, 2017Gay Officer's Actn League Pri Celebratn held NYCABC 7 New YorkJune 21, 2017NYPD set to make transn easier for transgenr psNY PostJune 21, 2017NYPD gay officers group to honor ‘twerk p’ Michael Hance who died of 9/11-lked ncerNY Daily NewsJune 17, 2017"Let's not take away om the urage of a transgenr police officer on the job" - Brian DowneyThe John Oakley ShowMay 23, 2017GOAL NY v Toronto Police Officers to march alongsi NYPD 2017 NYC Pri MarchCP24May 22, 2017Newly promoted sergeant is a proud lbian who lls the NYPD her send fayNY Daily NewsMay 14, 2017GOAL NY live on Elvis Duran & The Morng ShowZ-100 Elvis Duran & The Morng ShowOctober 11, 2017Transgenr on the ForceThe New York TimAugt 05, 2016LGBT members of the NYPD proudly march durg annual Pri ParaPIX 11June 26, 2016A Cop Who Really Was New York’s FtGay Cy NewsJune 23, 2016NYPD shows support for gay pri wh new-look patrol SUVNY PostJune 22, 2016A Gay Officer Cght Between Two WorldsThe Wall Street JournalJune 21, 2016NYC renam tersectn for policeman who found LGBT groupPIX 11June 17, 2016Gay NYPD Officer Who Came Out at Cy Hearg Honored Street RenamgDNA InfoJune 17, 2016A Day Of Pri at NYPD HeadquartersThe Wall Street JournalJune 15, 2016At Pri Event, Police Move to Mend Bond Wh Gay New YorkersThe New York TimJune 15, 2016NYPD Groups Jo Queens’ St.

Patrick’s Day Para In Solidary Wh LGBT MembersHuff PostFebary 02, 2016Sam Cicne, a Champn of Gay Police Officers, Di at 71The New York TimMay 17, 2015Gay NYPD ps seek honor for hero sergeant who me out three s agoNY Daily NewsSeptember 16, 2013. History, police officers were bound to enforce explicly anti-gay laws — om lol measur outlawg men om “impersonatg a female” to the wispread crimalizatn of same-sex sexual activy.

She poted to a study published by the Williams Instute May that found lbian, gay, bisexual and queer people are six tim more likely than the general public to be stopped by police (data about transgenr dividuals were not available the datasets analyzed). Prr to the start of this trag, negative attus about the LGBTQ muny were reportedly pervasive wh the partment: In 1996, durg a retrag of veteran officers, a word associatn exercise asked for rpons to the word “gays. Gtavo Alvarez, a gay rint of Palo Alto, California, settled his lawsu agast s police partment after accg of vlatg his civil rights, rultg a settlement that clud a $572, 500 payout and a one-off two hours of mandatory LGBTQ-awarens trag for all police officers the partment.