NPR'S Michel Mart speaks wh Brian E. Downey, print of the Gay Officers Actn League, about NYC Pri's cisn to ban law enforcement om attendg Pri events uniform.
Contents:
- LGBT PRI PARAS ARE BANNG UNIFORMED GAY AND TRANS POLICE OFFICERS OM PARTICIPATN
- POLICE AT PRI? GAY PS, LGBTQ ACTIVISTS STGGLE TO SEE EYE-TO-EYE
- GAY OFFICERS ACTN LEAGUE PRINT OPPOS PRI'S UNIFORMED LAW ENFORCEMENT BAN
- GAY LEATHER UNIFORM
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
- SO ANY GAY GUYS WHO HAVE BEEN THE MILARY OR NAVY POST HERE?
LGBT PRI PARAS ARE BANNG UNIFORMED GAY AND TRANS POLICE OFFICERS OM PARTICIPATN
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In New York, the Gay Officers Actn League said was “disheartened” by the cisn, sayg the move was done an effort to “plate some of the activists” the cy.
“I unrstand people’s anger, I unrstand some people jt don’t like the police, ” said Chief Vansa Williams, who is gay, a statement to CNN. Pri march first began rponse to a 1969 police raid on Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York Cy, which sparked multiple days of protts agast policg.
” Even if the officers are dividually tryg to do good, the system is still “credibly homophobic and transphobic, ” he said. A 2017 study om the Instute, which was published the Amerin Journal of Public Health, found that sexual mori – those who intified as lbian, gay or bisexual, or had same-sex experienc – were disproportnately rcerated, nstutg 9. The rate of rceratn of lbian, gay and bisexual people is approximately three tim higher than the general US rceratn rate, the study found, and rcerated sexual mori were more likely to experience mistreatment, harsh punishment and sexual victimizatn than straight mat.
POLICE AT PRI? GAY PS, LGBTQ ACTIVISTS STGGLE TO SEE EYE-TO-EYE
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JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
The lol leather muny anticipated the bar to close, as many other gay specific tablishments have around the untry. (LifeSeNews) — After years of welg the participatn police ntgents Pri events, LGBTQIA+ Pri paras are creasgly banng gay, lbian, and transgenr police om marchg uniform, cg perceived vlence agast Black Amerins and the role that police once played enforcg laws that gay and transgenr-intifyg persons viewed as opprsive. In an ironic twist, long sce big cy police partments across the natn have been filtrated and ostensibly nquered by LGBT forc — numero officers now intify as gay or trans — Pri planners are rejectg their prence, sentially turng back the clock to the night of June 28, 1969, when New York Cy Police raid a gay club Greenwich Village known as the Stonewall Inn, the event that triggered the gay movement, lnchg a thoand morn day Pri Paras and the leviathan Pri month.
“For gay officers, the prospect of beg exclud om Pri events n feel like an attack om their own muny, ” noted The New York Tim’ Liam Stack 2019. We are transgenr, non-bary, gay, lbian, and jt pla queer.
SO ANY GAY GUYS WHO HAVE BEEN THE MILARY OR NAVY POST HERE?
“Before 2021, LGBT officers were wele at the para and Gay Officers Actn League (GOAL) members have regularly marched uniform wh celebrants sce that anizatn was found 1982, ” the Post report noted. 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.
”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. 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.