Police at Pri? Gay ps, LGBTQ activists stggle to see eye-to-eye

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.

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

” 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.

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

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 Before "don't ask, don't tell" was officially repealed for gay, lbian, and bisexual ary personnel 2011, a photo of a male Mare drag uld have land him hot water.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.

Sce 2011, openly gay, lbian and bisexual men and women have been permted to serve the ary.

GAY LEATHER UNIFORM

It wasn’t until 1982 that the ary enacted a policy explicly banng gay men and lbians om their ranks.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

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.

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

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.