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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. He has enuraged younger officers to take promotnal 2022, when he beme first puty missner, he gave members of the Gay Officers Actn League his phone number and exprsed genue ncern that the partment had not promoted more gay officers, said Brian Downey, a tective and print of the group.