The Cops Standg Wh, and for, the Gay Communi They Serve

Contents:

• I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
• IFS OFFICER REF VISA TO GAY DIPLOMAT'S SPOE, TRANSFERRED
• IFS OFFICER NI VISA TO SPOE OF GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT,MOVED OUT
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• THE COPS STANDG WH, AND FOR, THE GAY COMMUNI THEY SERVE
• INDIAN IFS OFFICER REMOVED FOR REFG VISA TO SPOE OF GAY US DIPLOMAT
• I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• INDIAN IFS OFFICER REMOVED FOR REFG VISA TO SPOE OF GAY US DIPLOMAT

I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK

But as a gay man, I have been fightg my whole life to enjoy the very privileg I am entled to as both a beholr and protector of them.

I was one of few soldiers who joed the service before graduatg high school, but the admistratn at the time, which I believe was homophobic, chose to act as if I never existed bee of my queer hate that I experienced growg up on Long Island was my first enunter wh how others would treat me as a queer soldier.

Refg a visa to the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat transferred om Islamabad to New Delhi appears to have led to a senr IFS officer beg moved out to a low-key postg. The officer, jot secretary Neena Malhotra, reportedly refed to clear the visa applitn on the grounds that gay marriag are not accepted unr Indian laws.

IFS OFFICER REF VISA TO GAY DIPLOMAT'S SPOE, TRANSFERRED

A report The Indian Exprs said a senr official the MEA's Ameris divisn suggted that although there is no le India permtg gay upl to get a visa as a spoe, the diplomat's partner uld have been given a visa as a fay member. A senr IFS officer was shifted om the MEA’s passport and visa divisn this week for refg a visa to the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat on the ground that such marriag are not legal India.

Malhotra, they said, refed to clear the visa applitn as gay marriag are not legal India and the diplomat’s spoe uld not be IFS officer ni visa to partner of gay diplomat, is moved out granted a diplomatic visa and regnised as a spoe India.

IFS OFFICER NI VISA TO SPOE OF GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT,MOVED OUT

A senr official the MEA’s Ameris divisn suggted that although there is no le India to give visa to a gay uple, the diplomat’s partner uld be given visa as a fay member as had been done the past. Wright, her cisn now go to the school board, which will discs the book challenge at s Monday meetg agenda and vote on a cisn on Tallahassee mom who submted the challenge, Katie Lyons, said her dghter, then a send grar at a lol elementary school, brought home the children's book about Kg, a tennis legend who is gay — and also brought qutns to her mother about a page regardg Kg's sexual orientatn.

“It is important that be ma clear that this book was challenged not bee the book mentns Billie Jean Kg is gay, ” Lyons told the school board at a meetg last week.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Regardls of orientatn, homosexual or heterosexual, the topic of sexual orientatn is not age-appropriate or velopmentally-appropriate for elementary stunts.

"I object to material that discs beg gay and what means to be gay, " wrote page drawg the challenge reads: "Around this time, I realized I was gay. Beg gay means that if you're a girl, you love and have romantic feelgs for other girls — and if you're a boy, you love and have romantic feelgs for other boys.

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

"Lyons matas the book is ntrary to state law, largely cg the Parental Rights Edutn Act, dubbed "Don't Say Gay" by crics, which prohibs stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty book challenge law:Florida schools stggle to apply new book law which even Shakpeare is 'spect'Why 's beg challenged:Tallahassee mom mak se that 'I am Billie Jean Kg' book 'g' on parents' rightsWright, her July 10 remendatn, unters that the book isn’t ed as “stctn” and poted to a clarifitn the Florida Department of Edutn issued statg that "cintal referenc" books to LGBTQ people are not also said a new law, HB 1069, directed each school district to adopt procs allowg parents to lim their child’s accs to library material.

"The excln of one of the profil jt bee of the intifitn of the ma subject as homosexual is not the tentn of any law or statute passed by the Florida Legislature, " Syett Lyons said the parental book review procs is not enough to screen qutnable materials accsible to their stunts.

INDIAN IFS OFFICER REMOVED FOR REFG VISA TO SPOE OF GAY US DIPLOMAT

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I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK

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.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Gay police officers straddle two worlds: Outsi the force, they are sometim viewed wh spicn by their own kd. As part of the force, they’re navigatg the very stutn largely rponsible for the vlence that led to the morn gay rights movement. In fact, the gay rights movement was born out of a rt agast the police.

In 1969, New York Cy officers raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay club Greenwich Village, sparkg vlent protts and clash that lasted six days. And back then, as now, the stggle between beg both a p and a gay activist wasn’t easily renciled. “I’m very proud of beg a New York Cy policeman, and I’m equally proud of beg gay, ” he said to a stunned dience.

INDIAN IFS OFFICER REMOVED FOR REFG VISA TO SPOE OF GAY US DIPLOMAT

“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.

Hundreds of gay ps and their straight alli were standg as the natnal anthem played. 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.