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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.