For the first time ever, the NYPD is featurg members of the gay muny a new recment ad mpaign.
Contents:
- PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
- #TOGETHERINPRI: NYPD, GAY OFFICERS ACTN LEAGUE HIGHLIGHT PROGRS FOR LGBTQIA+ MEMBERS
- PRI PARA ANIZERS BAR GAY POLICE OFFICERS’ GROUP OM MARCHG 2022 EVENT
- NYC PRI PARA BANS POLICE; GAY OFFICERS 'DISHEARTENED'
- POLICE AT PRI? GAY PS, LGBTQ ACTIVISTS STGGLE TO SEE EYE-TO-EYE
- DECISN TO EXCLU GAY POLICE GROUP OM PRI PARA IS ‘HURTFUL AND DISAPPOTG,’ TOP NYPD SPOX SAYS
PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
The iative, first suggted by the NYPD’s Gay Officers Actn League, is expected to help the natn’s largt police force more effectively rec members of the LGBTQ muny. * nypd gay officers *
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The iative, first suggted by the NYPD’s Gay Officers Actn League, is expected to help the natn’s largt police force more effectively rec members of the LGBTQ muny. Durg the Gay Pri Para. “I thk sends a msage to the muny that we are an clive police partment, one that is acceptg of whoever is that may e to , ” she hasn’t always been the Deputy Commissner Tanya Meisenholr (Barry Williams/for New York Daily News)The NYPD has a long history of antagonism towards anyone not Daily News FlashWeekdaysCatch up on the day’s top five stori every weekday fact, the 1969 police raid at the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village gay bar, sparked a natnwi gay rights movement.
#TOGETHERINPRI: NYPD, GAY OFFICERS ACTN LEAGUE HIGHLIGHT PROGRS FOR LGBTQIA+ MEMBERS
On Thursday, the NYPD and learship om the Gay Officers Actn League gave an update on new polici for LGBTQIA+ members. * nypd gay officers *
The raid, the last straw for a muny fed up wh police harassment, sparked a seri of vlent years later, a police unn official at a Cy Hall hearg over the cy’s gay rights bill ttified he knew of no homosexual ps. Charl Cochrane ttified, stunng the tablishment when he intified himself as such and notg gays are “not cel, wicked, cursed, sick or posssed by mons. “And I’m equally proud of beg gay.
PRI PARA ANIZERS BAR GAY POLICE OFFICERS’ GROUP OM MARCHG 2022 EVENT
New York Cy Pri has told the NYPD’s Gay Officers Actn League is not wele the para, said Det. Brian Downey, print of the police group. NYC Pri had been expected to announce the Gay Officers Actn League’s excln om the para early next week. But GOAL pre-empted that announcement by issug a news release on Friday night — and referred to parts of the NYC Pri statement on s excln that have not been released yet. * nypd gay officers *
Three years ago, as the Stonewall 50th anniversary neared, then-NYPD Commissner Jam O’Neill apologized for what happened that Commissner Keechant Sewell announced the sexual orientatn iative, which also appli to school safety and traffic agents and other NYPD civilian employe, an ternal took effect March 7 and allows those who choose to take part to intify as straight or heterosexual, lbian or gay, bi-sexual, pansexual or asexual.
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NYC PRI PARA BANS POLICE; GAY OFFICERS 'DISHEARTENED'
“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.
“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.
POLICE AT PRI? GAY PS, LGBTQ ACTIVISTS STGGLE TO SEE EYE-TO-EYE
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. Not only will a private secury firm take the lead on securg the event – though the NYPD will still be prent a more limed pacy and at a distance, anizers say – but the Gay Officers’ Actn League (GOAL), the LGBTQ+ anizatn of NYPD officers, will not be allowed to participate. While NYC PRIDE has emphasized this year’s March is largely virtual, and the -person march has been sled down to highlight this year’s grand marshals and a handful of muny groups, the cisn has eliced a strong rponse om the NYPD and, most crilly, om gay officers who fd themselv two petg muni.
Be proud of beg gay. She feels that the visibily of LGBTQ+ officers is eply important to mendg relatns between law enforcement and the gay muny. “The only thg that was achieved here was not banng the NYPD; was banng GOAL; was banng gay officers, ” Samuel said.
After all, the march memorat the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg, which the NYPD btally enforced unjt laws that effectively crimalized beg gay. The protts that followed beme the foundatn of the gay rights the participants, Pri n only be te to form if matas s origal anti-tablishment bent. Charl Henry Cochrane Jr., who 1981 beme the first active out gay officer the then-136-year history of the partment.
DECISN TO EXCLU GAY POLICE GROUP OM PRI PARA IS ‘HURTFUL AND DISAPPOTG,’ TOP NYPD SPOX SAYS
The unn’s vice print at the time, Pat Burns, stated he knew of no gay ps the entire force. He clared that he was proud to be an NYPD officer — and “equally proud to be gay.
)Cochrane would go on to -found the Gay Officers Actn League, or GOAL, 1982, a pneerg anizatn dited to fightg for the rights of queer law enforcement and rrectns profsnals and the muni we serve.