Pri Month: Pri Paddle, Terranea & South Bay LGBTQ Center - Redondo Beach, CA - People the South Bay n support gay pri at paras, virtual ceremoni and other lol events.
Contents:
- JACK FLAHERTY RIPS RAYS PLAYERS’ REFAL TO WEAR GAY PRI PATCH
- GAY BASEBALL PRO BRYAN RUBY ADDRS RAYS PLAYERS’ REFAL TO WEAR PRI PATCH
JACK FLAHERTY RIPS RAYS PLAYERS’ REFAL TO WEAR GAY PRI PATCH
”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.
GAY BASEBALL PRO BRYAN RUBY ADDRS RAYS PLAYERS’ REFAL TO WEAR PRI PATCH
“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. Cardals pcher Jack Flaherty shared his thoughts on Twter after Rays pchers Jason Adam, Jalen Beeks, Brooks Raley, Jefey Sprgs, and Ryan Thompson refed to wear the gay pri logo on their uniforms, sayg was a “fah-based cisn.