Sce 1982, the Gay Officers Actn League has moved to bridge the divis between themselv and the people they’re sworn to protect.
Contents:
- LESBIAN AND GAY POLICE ASSOCIATION – GAY OFFICERS ACTION LEAGUE
- THE COPS STANDG WH, AND FOR, THE GAY COMMUNI THEY SERVE
- LBIAN & GAY PEACE OFFICER’S ASSOCIATN
LESBIAN AND GAY POLICE ASSOCIATION – GAY OFFICERS ACTION LEAGUE
* association gay police *
The Lbian and Gay Police Associatn–Gay Officers Actn League (LGPA–GOAL) was found 1991 by four Chigo Police Officers: Mary Boyle, Dorothy Knudson, Sue Sasso, and Karen Conway, who felt that was time that lbian and gay police personnel had an anizatn of their own.
THE COPS STANDG WH, AND FOR, THE GAY COMMUNI THEY SERVE
Known those days as the “Lbian and Gay Police Associatn” (LGPA), the group’s origal purpose was to provi support for gay and lbian police officers, who were mostly closeted at the time.
Among s many achievements, the LGPA—as was known between s foundg and 2005—sought and won the right to wear the Chigo Police Department (CPD) uniform annual Pri Paras; earned the right to post LGBT related notic the police bullet; fought agast ter-partmental discrimatn toward LGBT officers; earned the support of the Fraternal Orr of Police (FOP) Lodge for their sponsorship of the Pri Para float; worked wh the FOP and Cy attorneys to clu sexual orientatn a CPD ntract non-discrimatn clse; participated heargs on domtic partner benefs before the Chigo Cy Council; and supported the effort to brg the 2006 Gay Gam to Chigo. The Gay Officers Actn League (GOAL) was brought to Illois om New York 1995.
LBIAN & GAY PEACE OFFICER’S ASSOCIATN
In 2005, the origal LGPA merged wh GOAL; sce then the bed anizatn has been known as the Lbian and Gay Police Associatn–Gay Officers Actn League.