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Contents:

• GAY P STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• THE HANDSOME UNRVER P S. IS HE ENTRAPPG GAY MEN OR CLEANG UP A PARK?
• EXCLUSIVE: NEW FDNY FIREFIGHTER STARRED AT LEAST 10 GAY PORN FLICKS BEFORE JOG BRAVT
• THE FIRE PARTMENT CLOSET: BEG GAY BUNKER GEAR
• GAY COP
• PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
• POLICE AT PRI? GAY PS, LGBTQ ACTIVISTS STGGLE TO SEE EYE-TO-EYE
• MEET GAY PS
• OFFICER IENDLY AND THE TOUGH P:GAYS AND LBIANS NAVIGATE HOMOPHOBIA AND POLICG
• CASE OF THE HUNKY COP AND GAY MAN

GAY P STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

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THE HANDSOME UNRVER P S. IS HE ENTRAPPG GAY MEN OR CLEANG UP A PARK?

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EXCLUSIVE: NEW FDNY FIREFIGHTER STARRED AT LEAST 10 GAY PORN FLICKS BEFORE JOG BRAVT

“Nobody is gog to fend lewd nduct, but there is a qualative difference between sexual predators and people who engage boorish behavr, ” said Los Angel County Asssor Jefey Prang, who is gay and a former special assistant the Sheriff’s Department who worked wh s LGBT advisory uncil. Last month, a Los Angel County judge threw out the charg one se stemmg om Long Beach’s 2014 operatn, sayg police were discrimatg agast gay law enforcement agenci have stopped rponse to lawsus or after polil backlash. While lewd nduct plats have dropped dramatilly recent years, Neiman said stgs have been ed to shut down persistent hotspots for gay cisg and lewd acts 11 tim sce 2014.

THE FIRE PARTMENT CLOSET: BEG GAY BUNKER GEAR

“You still have to enforce the law when you get plats, ” he e of unrver ps to target gay men Southern California stretch back to the early 20th century, when gay sex was illegal, said Lillian Farman, a historian and thor of “Gay L. Brown, “vice specialists” who loered public rtrooms and other areas while rryg out so-lled “pury mpaigns” aimed at gay men Long Beach and Los Angel, Farman wrote, addg that their methods served as a mol for stgs throughout Southern pair had no prr police trag but were given police badg both ci.

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GAY COP

Pl Ford, supervisor of the agency’s tective Long Beach, gay-rights activists said they were troubled — and surprised — to see stgs still beg ployed a cy wh a vibrant LGBT muny and an openly gay Beach police took more than two dozen men to ctody durg y operatns om 2012 to 2014, acrdg to Bce Nickerson, a civil rights of those men was Rory Moroney, who was arrted the Recreatn Park stg the day he was arrted, Moroney said he was g his laptop the park to search for jobs.

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PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.

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

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In 2003, his partment (for whom he had worked for 13 years and was both their senr officer and field trag officer) found out that he was gay and fired him immediately. On June 12, 2016 a gunman opened fire on a gay nightclub Florida. But more relevant than that, on May 28, 2016, the Philalphia chapter of the Gay Officers Actn League was asked to rign as the grand marshals of that cy’s Gay Pri para.

The gay muny Philalphia circulated a wildly popular petn clarg the police to be the enemy of the gay muny and mandg they be removed om what is supposed to be a celebratn of uny.

MEET GAY PS

But overlooks an sential tth: To be both gay and uniform is not a betrayal of eher. ” On a rooftop at the end of the day, after some drks, he lled home and told his father that he was gay. So I uld see the Herage of Pri para as this thg for whe gay men, mcly, glter.

“Gay liberatn, ” she said, “meant revolutn. ” The monstrators left angry but clash between protters and police fillg social media, prsure rose on Herage of Pri to rce police volvement, cludg banng the Gay Officers Actn League, which routely receiv effive cheers durg the Pri march. ” The board did not tell members about the cisn or ask for a the Gay Officers Actn League learned about the g policy, pre-empted Herage of Pri wh s own statement llg the ban “shameful.

OFFICER IENDLY AND THE TOUGH P:GAYS AND LBIANS NAVIGATE HOMOPHOBIA AND POLICG

“My God, what a bate over this, ” said Andy Humm, a longtime -host of “Gay USA, ” a TV news program. In the past week, he told them, he had received onle msag of hate nsistently om whe gay men, to the extent that his fay feared for his safety. Fisher, who had lled for the vote of no Downey, print of the gay officers group, said he felt “betrayed” by the ban, pecially bee the officers “put so much of themselv on the choppg block” by workg to change practic and attus wh their partments.

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.

CASE OF THE HUNKY COP AND GAY MAN

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. Courty Edgar RodriguezLater that day, a woman om Rodriguez’s Police Amy class asked him which room the gay officers’ group was meetg .