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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

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.

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

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. Before "don't ask, don't tell" was officially repealed for gay, lbian, and bisexual ary personnel 2011, a photo of a male Mare drag uld have land him hot water. "Lbian, gay, and bisexual ary personnel had been servg our untry for s whout receivg equal protectn, while transgenr troops are still prohibed om servg openly.

"As a gay man, I n relate to what is still the opprsive stigma of homosexualy.

GAY OFFICERS ACTN LEAGUE PRINT OPPOS PRI'S UNIFORMED LAW ENFORCEMENT BAN

Sce 2011, openly gay, lbian and bisexual men and women have been permted to serve the ary. It wasn’t until 1982 that the ary enacted a policy explicly banng gay men and lbians om their ranks. And the early 1940s, was classified as a mental illns, disqualifyg gay men and lbians om service.

Eighteen years later, Congrs repealed the policy, allowg openly gay, lbian and bisexual people to serve the ary. "Eric tells : “Authory, power, heroism, strength, or simply the athetics of clothg and accsori, the enhancement of the male body — all the mixed feelgs at the sight of a man uniform awake our imagatn and strata of our homoerotic cultural unnsc.

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.

GAY LEATHER UNIFORM

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.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

We are transgenr, non-bary, gay, lbian, and jt pla queer. “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.

SO ANY GAY GUYS WHO HAVE BEEN THE MILARY OR NAVY POST HERE?

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. 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.

Cochrane told the rooki his new group was lled the Gay Officers Actn League, or GOAL. A few months earlier, Cochrane had bee the first NYPD officer to publicly e out when he announced that he was gay at a cy uncil meetg November 1981.