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- WE WENT TO A CONVENTN FOR GAY POLICE OFFICERS BERL
- GAY COP
- I WAS AN OFFICER IN THE INDIAN ARMY, I'M GAY AND VERY PROUD
- HE WAS ONE OF THE NATN’S MOST REVERED GAY PS. HIS ARRT CHANGED EVERYTHG.
WE WENT TO A CONVENTN FOR GAY POLICE OFFICERS BERL
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(Photos urty of subjects)Ana Arboleda, a 12-year vet of the New York Police Department and a proud lbian, will never fet the mix of fear and joy she felt the first time she joed the New York Cy Pri March, uniform, as part of the Gay Officers Actn League New York (GOAL-NY), a volunteer-led anizatn that addrs the issu of LGBTQ ps and the muny at large.
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Decisns like the are rpons to unrlyg tensns between the LGBTQ muny and police that have a long and plited past, wh queer people historilly harassed and persecuted by law enforcement — most famoly, though not only, through the 1969 raid at the Stonewall Inn, at which a route police shakedown at the gay bar led fed-up patrons to stand up for their rights to exist, promptg the days-long Philalphia — where the official Pri event has been abptly nceled this year — tensns were high 2018, when police officers arrted a woman who l a Blue Liv Matter flag prott, ahead of the Pri Para.
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“As a person of lor, as a first-generatn Amerin, and as a gay man, equaly, jtice and equy aren’t mere abstractns, but ncrete tentns, ” he adds. “Our queer siblgs need to know that the Gay Officers Actn League, a aternal anizatn of gays law enforcement, will ntue servg as an advote for our muny and a nscience for the Department, ” he Police Officer Greg Abbk, At Police DepartmentGreg Abbk of At, Texas, stggled for most of his life wh his genr inty and says that he’s fally found his place law enforcement, where he transned publicly 2015, after a on the job. ”This Augt he’ll march, as past years, wh the Lbian and Gay Peace Officers Associatn.