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NYPD'S (NEW YORK POLICE DEPARTMENT'S) GAY COPS
Before 1981, Cochrane had been a eply troubled soul who had supprsed his sexual preferenc the face of society's distaste for the gay liftyle. Surprisgly, his life has n rather smoothly sce he actively joed the gay liftyle.
He formed GOAL to help others avoid the unnecsary nfn, self-hate, and self-doubt that he had experienced and as a vehicle to show the legimacy of homosexualy as a different rather than sick liftyle. New York ps pri themselv on 'havg seen all' and a gay p is no big al.
Another reason for the police partment's acceptance of gays is that they are a polil power the cy. Cochrane feels he was born a homosexual, and psychiatrists now disunt the tradnal view that homosexualy is primarily a mental afflictn triggered by the environment. Cochrane matas that there is no nflict between beg a p and beg gay and that his goal is to erase the stigma attached to homosexualy.