Contents:
- PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
- NYPD UNVEILS RABOW-THEMED VEHICLE BEFORE CY'S GAY PRI MARCH
- ILLINOIS STATE POLICE SHOULDER PATCH: GAY PRI
PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
”The rabow-wrapped pri patch — the first of s kd for a police partment Orange County — was a bold step what was long a famoly red Orange County — where former Print Reagan said good Republins go to die and where John Wayne cly allud to gay people as “perverted” — homophobia has long been on display. The cy of Costa Ma s ago nied a “gay church” perm to John Rule, who helped start the LGBTQ Center OC, now s 50th year. Bumper stickers wh vlent, homophobic language were sold Huntgton Beach surf shops until the late 1980s.
“Back the early ’80s, was not an easy place to be an openly gay person, ” said Michael Losquadro, a gay man who serv as a rerve litenant the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. “Maybe there n be some good thgs out of , but I thk ultimately the most vulnerable people the muni — like queer people of lor, and LGBT muni — are the on that don’t necsarily benef om stutns like policg, ” Brooks centuri, laws and police agenci have opprsed the gay muny, raidg gay bars and prohibg cross-drsg. In 1969, thoands marched agast such discrimatn and the police btaly that acpanied New York the Stonewall uprisg, which marked the begng of the morn LGBTQ rights, lbian, gay, bisexual and queer youth and adults are six tim more likely than the general populatn to be stopped by the police, acrdg to data published May by the UCLA Williams Instute.
NYPD UNVEILS RABOW-THEMED VEHICLE BEFORE CY'S GAY PRI MARCH
But even gay police officers aren’t always wele among the broar LGBTQ muny. Losquadro, who once looked up the word “gay” a phone book and found the hotle for the Gay and Lbian Communy Servic Center of Orange County — the forenner to the LGBTQ Center — felt pecially shunned durg the 2019 event.
"In this June 30, 2019, file photo, para participants walk durg the San Francis Gay Pri para San Fox/Getty Imag, FILEThe difficult relatnship between police and members of the LGBTQ muny has a longstandg history.
In 1969, a police raid on patrons at The Stonewall Inn New York Cy led to an uprisg that gave rise to the gay-rights movement.
ILLINOIS STATE POLICE SHOULDER PATCH: GAY PRI
Texas led to the natnwi crimalizatn of sexual activy between same-sex Francis officers have rpond to the uniform ban by llectively refg to march the para, which will take place on June 26, this June 30, 2019, file photo, para participants walk durg the San Francis Gay Pri para San Fox/Getty Imag, FILEIn a statement, the San Francis Police Department said "supports the cisn of our LGBTQ+ officers" but will still be attendance for secury reasons. 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.
” Even if the officers are dividually tryg to do good, the system is still “credibly homophobic and transphobic, ” he said.