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Contents:

• PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
• GAY POLICEMAN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• COMG OUT AT WORK: WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE A GAY P NEW JERSEY
• GAY LEATHER POLICE UNIFORM
• POLICE AT PRI? GAY PS, LGBTQ ACTIVISTS STGGLE TO SEE EYE-TO-EYE

PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.

”The rabow-wrapped pri patch — the first of s kd for a police partment Orange County — was a bold step what was long a famoly red Orange County — where former Print Reagan said good Republins go to die and where John Wayne cly allud to gay people as “perverted” — homophobia has long been on display. The cy of Costa Ma s ago nied a “gay church” perm to John Rule, who helped start the LGBTQ Center OC, now s 50th year. Bumper stickers wh vlent, homophobic language were sold Huntgton Beach surf shops until the late 1980s.

“Back the early ’80s, was not an easy place to be an openly gay person, ” said Michael Losquadro, a gay man who serv as a rerve litenant the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. “Maybe there n be some good thgs out of , but I thk ultimately the most vulnerable people the muni — like queer people of lor, and LGBT muni — are the on that don’t necsarily benef om stutns like policg, ” Brooks centuri, laws and police agenci have opprsed the gay muny, raidg gay bars and prohibg cross-drsg. In 1969, thoands marched agast such discrimatn and the police btaly that acpanied New York the Stonewall uprisg, which marked the begng of the morn LGBTQ rights, lbian, gay, bisexual and queer youth and adults are six tim more likely than the general populatn to be stopped by the police, acrdg to data published May by the UCLA Williams Instute.

But even gay police officers aren’t always wele among the broar LGBTQ muny. Losquadro, who once looked up the word “gay” a phone book and found the hotle for the Gay and Lbian Communy Servic Center of Orange County — the forenner to the LGBTQ Center — felt pecially shunned durg the 2019 event. ” On a rooftop at the end of the day, after some drks, he lled home and told his father that he was gay.

GAY POLICEMAN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

So I uld see the Herage of Pri para as this thg for whe gay men, mcly, glter.

COMG OUT AT WORK: WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE A GAY P NEW JERSEY

“Gay liberatn, ” she said, “meant revolutn. ” The monstrators left angry but clash between protters and police fillg social media, prsure rose on Herage of Pri to rce police volvement, cludg banng the Gay Officers Actn League, which routely receiv effive cheers durg the Pri march.

GAY LEATHER POLICE UNIFORM

” The board did not tell members about the cisn or ask for a the Gay Officers Actn League learned about the g policy, pre-empted Herage of Pri wh s own statement llg the ban “shameful. “My God, what a bate over this, ” said Andy Humm, a longtime -host of “Gay USA, ” a TV news program.

In the past week, he told them, he had received onle msag of hate nsistently om whe gay men, to the extent that his fay feared for his safety. Fisher, who had lled for the vote of no Downey, print of the gay officers group, said he felt “betrayed” by the ban, pecially bee the officers “put so much of themselv on the choppg block” by workg to change practic and attus wh their partments.

In New York, the Gay Officers Actn League said was “disheartened” by the cisn, sayg the move was done an effort to “plate some of the activists” the cy.

POLICE AT PRI? GAY PS, LGBTQ ACTIVISTS STGGLE TO SEE EYE-TO-EYE

“I unrstand people’s anger, I unrstand some people jt don’t like the police, ” said Chief Vansa Williams, who is gay, a statement to CNN.

Pri march first began rponse to a 1969 police raid on Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York Cy, which sparked multiple days of protts agast policg.