LESBIAN AND GAY POLICE ASSOCIATION – GAY OFFICERS ACTION LEAGUE – Chigo LGBT Hall of Fame

Contents:

• GAY AND LBIAN COPS: DIVERSY AND EFFECTIVE POLICG
• ASSIATN OF OPENLY GAY AND LBIAN POLICE OFFICERS INTO THE LAW ENFORCEMENT CULTURE
• LESBIAN AND GAY POLICE ASSOCIATION – GAY OFFICERS ACTION LEAGUE
• OFFICER IENDLY AND THE TOUGH P:GAYS AND LBIANS NAVIGATE HOMOPHOBIA AND POLICG
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR LIAISON UN (LGBTLU)

GAY AND LBIAN COPS: DIVERSY AND EFFECTIVE POLICG

Reports n be found across the Uned Stat of police allegedly g excsive force agast lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people. The multiday prott — wily nsired a pivotal turng pot the morn gay rights movement — was triggered by a police raid on the popular Stonewall Inn gay bar. History, police officers were bound to enforce explicly anti-gay laws — om lol measur outlawg men om “impersonatg a female” to the wispread crimalizatn of same-sex sexual activy.

ASSIATN OF OPENLY GAY AND LBIAN POLICE OFFICERS INTO THE LAW ENFORCEMENT CULTURE

Texas that gay sex was crimalized throughout the untry. She poted to a study published by the Williams Instute May that found lbian, gay, bisexual and queer people are six tim more likely than the general public to be stopped by police (data about transgenr dividuals were not available the datasets analyzed).

The bans have been divisive, even wh the LGBTQ muny — and particularly among openly gay police officers.

Prr to the start of this trag, negative attus about the LGBTQ muny were reportedly pervasive wh the partment: In 1996, durg a retrag of veteran officers, a word associatn exercise asked for rpons to the word “gays. Gtavo Alvarez, a gay rint of Palo Alto, California, settled his lawsu agast s police partment after accg of vlatg his civil rights, rultg a settlement that clud a $572, 500 payout and a one-off two hours of mandatory LGBTQ-awarens trag for all police officers the partment. “There was no secret that he was gay, and the officers fely ed that as a way to mean him their prr ntacts wh him and also durg this ntact.

LESBIAN AND GAY POLICE ASSOCIATION – GAY OFFICERS ACTION LEAGUE

In New York Cy — where LGBTQ trag is provid by the Gay Officers Actn League (GOAL) for both new recs and veteran officers — Cummgs wants the police missner to be a civilian and lgs om the Civilian Complat Review Board, the NYPD’s oversight agency, be bdg.

“Across the board systemic racism and homophobia is play wh policg, so go beyond trag and budget.

An troductory chapter clus a se study of how two lbian police officers assisted the vtigatn of the murr of a gay, hearg-impaired llege stunt. Chapter 2 provis an overview of the relevant lerature, cludg background rmatn on discrimatn agast gay and lbian dividuals public employment, the ways which sexual mori manage disclosure the workplace, the recent history of lbian and gay people policg, and the velopment of shared perceptns by gay and lbian officers about their work environment.

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

This chapter also discs how anizatnal effectivens n be promised when police agenci rist diversifitn that clus the hirg of gay and lbian officers. This policg philosophy has led law enforcement agenci to face diversy the muni they serve, which has led to regnn of the importance of recg gay and lbian people to police service.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR LIAISON UN (LGBTLU)

Chapter 4 nsirs the experienc and shared perceptns of lbian and gay officers the Uned Stat and the Uned Kgdom, followed by a chapter that discs the ways which lbian and gay officers have brought a unique dimensn to law enforcement.

Chapter 6 highlights two se studi - one the Uned Stat and one the Uned Kgdom - which show the distctive and specialized ntributns of gay and lbian officers to policg.