Clad matchg black T-shirts and armed wh flashlights and handcuffs, four members of a gay street patrol marched through shadowy alleys and parkg lots on a recent chilly night, on the lookout for gay-bashers.
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- GAYS FORM PATROLS TO BATTLE HATE CRIM : SELF-FENSE: WH ATTACKS ON HOMOSEXUALS CREASG, THE WT HOLLYWOOD EFFORT IS PART OF A MOBILIZATN THROUGHOUT THE SOUTHLAND.
- GAY POLICEMAN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
GAYS FORM PATROLS TO BATTLE HATE CRIM : SELF-FENSE: WH ATTACKS ON HOMOSEXUALS CREASG, THE WT HOLLYWOOD EFFORT IS PART OF A MOBILIZATN THROUGHOUT THE SOUTHLAND.
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Clad matchg black T-shirts and armed wh flashlights and handcuffs, four members of a gay street patrol marched through shadowy alleys and parkg lots on a recent chilly night, on the lookout for patrolled past gay bars and rtrants along Wt Hollywood’s Santa Moni Boulevard a formatn tght to them by the Guardian Angels, a natnal anti-crime patrol group. A short, stocky man wh tattoos on his forearms and earrgs both ears barked out stctns as the others patrol, formed Augt by the ant gay and lbian rights group Queer Natn, is part of a growg mobilizatn throughout Southern California to bat an crease anti-gay hate crim. In addn to formg street patrols, gays and lbians are signg up greater numbers for self-fense class.
And a few are begg to rry weapons such as baseball bats and the cy of Los Angel, the number of hate crim reported agast gays and lbians rose 22% last year--om 163 cints to 199--acrdg to the untry’s leadg gay servic agency. And acrdg to a report by the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force Policy Instute, the number of anti-gay hate crim Los Angel, New York, San Francis, Chigo, Boston and Mneapolis-St.
GAY POLICEMAN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
This timate portra of Gamal 'G' Turawa, an ex-Metropolan police officer, explor his memori of racially profilg and harassg black people and homophobia his early reer. Now an openly gay man, Turawa’s story is a multi-layered one and ss the centre of three pivotal moments recent Brish history, om the black muni’ ristance of opprsive policg, to the ph for LGBTQIA equaly and the aftermath of the wt Ain 'farmg' phenomenon, where whe fai took re of black children outsi the rem of lol thori * gay black patrol *
Pl creased by an average of 42% 1990, to a total of 1, 588 gay and lbian activists said the figur unrreprent the realy bee more than 85% of crim agast gays and lbians go ll to arms, activists said, has been fueled by a tratn among gays who believe police and lol ernment are not takg the problem serly. 29 veto of a bill to outlaw job discrimatn agast homosexuals flamed those sentiments and prompted a seri of noisy protts. Members of Queer Natn--scribed by some as the most ant factn of the gay rights movement--formed the Wt Hollywood foot patrol rponse to an crease gay-bashg around gay bars and rtrants along Santa Moni patrol group currently has eight members.
“A few of got together and said we are jt sick of hearg about all the bashgs, ” said Diane, a member of the patrol who, fearg reprisals, asked that her full name not be, another member, said the group do not try to provoke vlence but seeks through visibily to be a terrent to potential gay-bashers. ”Roger Coggan, legal servic director for the Los Angel Gay and Lbian Communy Servic Center, said gays and lbians are simply tryg to send a msage. Activists other parts of Southern California are sendg siar msag:* In Long Beach, the stabbg ath last year of a gay man as he walked out of a rtrant prompted ACT UP members to anize an rmal neighborhood patrol.