For the first time ever, the NYPD is featurg members of the gay muny a new recment ad mpaign.
Contents:
- “A GAY OFFICER CGHT BETWEEN TWO WORLDS”
- PRI PARA ANIZERS BAR GAY POLICE OFFICERS’ GROUP OM MARCHG 2022 EVENT
- #TOGETHERINPRI: NYPD, GAY OFFICERS ACTN LEAGUE HIGHLIGHT PROGRS FOR LGBTQIA+ MEMBERS
“A GAY OFFICER CGHT BETWEEN TWO WORLDS”
The iative, first suggted by the NYPD’s Gay Officers Actn League, is expected to help the natn’s largt police force more effectively rec members of the LGBTQ muny. * nypd lgbt *
Today, Police Commissner Dermot Shea and learship om the Gay Officers Actn League (GOAL) highlighted progrs that the NYPD has ma for LGBTQIA+ members of service and New Yorkers cywi. The iative, first suggted by the NYPD’s Gay Officers Actn League, is expected to help the natn’s largt police force more effectively rec members of the LGBTQ muny.
Durg the Gay Pri Para. “I thk sends a msage to the muny that we are an clive police partment, one that is acceptg of whoever is that may e to , ” she hasn’t always been the Deputy Commissner Tanya Meisenholr (Barry Williams/for New York Daily News)The NYPD has a long history of antagonism towards anyone not Daily News FlashWeekdaysCatch up on the day’s top five stori every weekday fact, the 1969 police raid at the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village gay bar, sparked a natnwi gay rights movement. The raid, the last straw for a muny fed up wh police harassment, sparked a seri of vlent years later, a police unn official at a Cy Hall hearg over the cy’s gay rights bill ttified he knew of no homosexual ps.
PRI PARA ANIZERS BAR GAY POLICE OFFICERS’ GROUP OM MARCHG 2022 EVENT
Sce 1982, the Gay Officers Actn League has been helpg the natn's largt police force evolve. * nypd lgbt *
Charl Cochrane ttified, stunng the tablishment when he intified himself as such and notg gays are “not cel, wicked, cursed, sick or posssed by mons.
“And I’m equally proud of beg gay. Three years ago, as the Stonewall 50th anniversary neared, then-NYPD Commissner Jam O’Neill apologized for what happened that Commissner Keechant Sewell announced the sexual orientatn iative, which also appli to school safety and traffic agents and other NYPD civilian employe, an ternal took effect March 7 and allows those who choose to take part to intify as straight or heterosexual, lbian or gay, bi-sexual, pansexual or asexual. LGBTQIA+ refers to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer/qutng, tersex and asexual groups, and BIPOC stands for Black, Indigeno and people of lor.
The first Pri march began as protts a year after the 1969 Stonewall rts, when the NYPD raid a gay bar Manhattan’s Greenwich Village at a time when police routely harassed gay people and tablishments.
#TOGETHERINPRI: NYPD, GAY OFFICERS ACTN LEAGUE HIGHLIGHT PROGRS FOR LGBTQIA+ MEMBERS
New York Cy Pri has told the NYPD’s Gay Officers Actn League is not wele the para, said Det. Brian Downey, print of the police group. NYC Pri had been expected to announce the Gay Officers Actn League’s excln om the para early next week. But GOAL pre-empted that announcement by issug a news release on Friday night — and referred to parts of the NYC Pri statement on s excln that have not been released yet. * nypd lgbt *
The Gay Officers Actn League, or GOAL, an anizatn that reprents LGBTQIA+ NYPD officers, said that the event anizers were takg “the low road. The ban clus the Gay Officers Actn League, an anizatn of L. It also after siar cisns other ci around the print of the Gay Officers Actn League, Brian Downey, cricized the cisn as exclnary, llg “shameful” and an “abpt about-face” a statement.
On Thursday, the NYPD and learship om the Gay Officers Actn League gave an update on new polici for LGBTQIA+ members. * nypd lgbt *
When gay police officers first marched uniform the para 1996 — they sued for the right to do so — was seen by many as a victory.
That's why, 1982, Charl Henry "Charlie" Cochrane Jr., a sergeant of the New York Police Department and the first out gay person on the force, found the Gay Officers Actn League to provi trag and assist law enforcement on matters of discrimatn and harassment the years later, the anizatn has chapters across the Uned Stat and is stmental batg homophobia police partments and other law enforcement agenci. This is what is like to be a closeted gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr member of law enforcement.
The Gay Officers Actn League (GOAL) was formed 1982 New York to addrs the needs, issu, and ncerns of gay and lbian law enforcement personnel.