Gay ps NJ talk about what was like to e out at work

Contents:

• PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
• COMG OUT AT WORK: WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE A GAY P NEW JERSEY
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

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

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. “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. ” Even if the officers are dividually tryg to do good, the system is still “credibly homophobic and transphobic, ” he said. A 2017 study om the Instute, which was published the Amerin Journal of Public Health, found that sexual mori – those who intified as lbian, gay or bisexual, or had same-sex experienc – were disproportnately rcerated, nstutg 9.

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

The rate of rceratn of lbian, gay and bisexual people is approximately three tim higher than the general US rceratn rate, the study found, and rcerated sexual mori were more likely to experience mistreatment, harsh punishment and sexual victimizatn than straight mat. ” On a rooftop at the end of the day, after some drks, he lled home and told his father that he was gay.

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

” 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.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

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.

Jam Tracy me out as gay to his police joed the Englewood Cliffs police partment 2002, but 10 years passed before he revealed his secret.

“I was gettg lls om gay police officers all over the untry sayg thgs like ‘Hey, thanks for the publicy and gettg out there', ” he said. ”It's not always easy to be a p who is gay, but each step forward helps pave the way for a better future work environment, Tracy ntu below galleryWell before Tracy ever put on the police uniform, Wtwood police Officer Larry Schwartz helped pave the way for gay officers. Schwartz remends other gay ps get volved and take the time to fd peers and seek help if there are road for officers who e out as gay to lleagu has not always been smooth.