A brief history of GOAL, the gay p club booted om NYC Pri

Contents:

• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF GOAL, THE GAY P CLUB BOOTED OM NYC PRI
• THE COPS STANDG WH, AND FOR, THE GAY COMMUNI THEY SERVE
• POLICE: GUNMAN KILLS 5 AT GAY CLUB, IS SUBDUED BY PATRONS
• COLORADO LGBTQ NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: 5 AD, 25 HURT ATTACK AT GAY CLUB, POLICE SAY
• ALLEGED RGLEAR GAY CLUB DGGG ATHS POLICE CTODY: SOURC
• VIO RURFAC OF KG VON TELLG POLICE HE'S "GAY" TO RELOTE IN JAIL

GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY

Colorado Sprgs, the state’s send-most populo cy wh jt unr 500, 000 rints, is home to a number of ary bas and is the headquarters for Foc on the Fay, the nservative Christian group that says homosexualy and same-sex marriage are ss. He and his bs partner toured other succsful LGBTQ spac and noted a mon theme: “They were gay as hell, ” Grzecka told the outlet.

Jared Polis, a Democrat and the natn’s first openly gay ernor, issued a statement Sunday llg the attack “horrific, sickeng and vastatg” and offered state rourc to lol law enforcement. A 22-year-old gunman opened fire wh a semitomatic rifle si a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and leavg 25 jured before he was subdued by "heroic" patrons and arrted by police who arrived wh mut, thori said spect the Saturday night shootg at Club Q ed an AR-15-style semitomatic weapon, a law enforcement official said.

Suthers said there was "reason to hope" that all of those hospalized would shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF GOAL, THE GAY P CLUB BOOTED OM NYC PRI

He said patrons who tervened durg the attack were "heroic" and owed a bt of gratu for preventg more Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a drag show on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse. Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man the Uned Stat to be elected ernor 2018, lled the shootg "sickeng. Experts warned that extremist groups uld see anti-gay rhetoric as a ll to prev month, a fundamentalist Idaho pastor told his small Boise ngregatn that gay, lbian and transgenr people should be executed by the ernment, which led up wh siar sermons om a Texas fundamentalist 2006, there have been 523 mass killgs and 2, 727 aths as of Nov.

" He was taken to police ctody shortly after the shootg began and was beg treated for juri, acrdg to shootg was remiscent of the 2016 Pulse club massacre, when a gunman killed 49 people at the gay nightclub of that name Orlando, Florida, before he was fatally shot by unfold as LGBTQ muni and alli around the world prepared to mark the Transgenr Day of Remembrance on Sunday, an annual observance to honor victims of transphobic Q, a long-tablished venue a most strip mall, was scribed by many as a safe haven for the LGBTQ muny Colorado's send-largt of the victims was intified as Daniel Aston, 28, a transgenr man and bartenr at the club who also performed shows as a dancer, acrdg to a Colorado Public Rad terview wh his mother, Sabra Aston.

Colorado Governor Jared Polis, who 2018 beme the first openly gay man the untry to be elected as a ernor, lled the shootg a "sensels act of evil.

THE COPS STANDG WH, AND FOR, THE GAY COMMUNI THEY SERVE

Dpe the group’s s of activism wh the Big Apple’s LGBT muny, the Gay Officers Actn League (GOAL) has been shunned and exclud om New York Cy Pri events for at least the next four years. From s nceptn, GOAL–a non-prof civil rights anizatn found 1982 by Charl Henry Cochrane Jr., the first openly gay NYPD officer–stggled for acceptance the NYPD. GOAL started wh the missn to elimate discrimatn and employment termatn of gay police officers due to their sexualy.

In a 2018 article tailg the history of the gay p club, the New York Post reported, “That same year [the su was filed] was the first time those officers were allowed to jo the Pri March full drs uniform.

POLICE: GUNMAN KILLS 5 AT GAY CLUB, IS SUBDUED BY PATRONS

On s webse, GOAL lists three parts to s missn statement, cludg, “Support active duty and retired Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer (‘LGBTQ’) law enforcement officers and other personnel of regnized law enforcement stutns;” “Edute and provi sensivy trag for non-LGBTQ law enforcement officers/personnel wh rpect to issu of employment of LGBTQ law enforcement officers/personnel and providg servic to the LGBTQ muny at large;” and “Promote a posive relatnship between the law enforcement muny and the LGBTQ muny through a variety of muny servic and tnal foms, wh an emphasis on the prcipl of jtice, equy, and equaly wh the area of law enforcement. Although the circumstance for that raid rema murky–whether was targetg mob-n bs or the gay men who ngregated at the tablishment is unclear–the NYPD nohels issued a formal apology 2019.

But as the print of the force’s only LGBTQ aternal anizatn — the Gay Officers Actn League, or GOAL — his other role is to serve and support his brothers and sisters drsed blue … and rabows.

COLORADO LGBTQ NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: 5 AD, 25 HURT ATTACK AT GAY CLUB, POLICE SAY

As part of the force, they’re navigatg the very stutn largely rponsible for the vlence that led to the morn gay rights movement. In 1969, New York Cy officers raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay club Greenwich Village, sparkg vlent protts and clash that lasted six days.

ALLEGED RGLEAR GAY CLUB DGGG ATHS POLICE CTODY: SOURC

“It’s an ongog procs, y, but ’s important for the [gay muny] — which has this mentaly based on history that you n’t be both gay and a police officer — to see that there are gay ps out there. Before he joed the force 17 years ago, Locke was a social worker and director at the Gay and Lbian Anti-Vlence Project, where he vtigated s of police vlence agast the gay muny.

On June 12, a few weeks before this year’s Pri Para, Downey stood at the ont of an dorium New York’s police headquarters for an annual event to honor the cy’s gay officers. Even as recently as a few years ago, GOAL wasn’t allowed to hold Pri Month events, like the one this month to regnize their gay lleagu, at police headquarters.

VIO RURFAC OF KG VON TELLG POLICE HE'S "GAY" TO RELOTE IN JAIL

Jam Tracy of the Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, police partment, the abily to be openly gay while the police force is important to make those meangful chang. Authori say a 22-year-old gunman opened fire wh a semitomatic rifle at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and leavg 25 jured before he was subdued by “heroic” patrons. (AP) — A 22-year-old gunman opened fire wh a semitomatic rifle si a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and leavg 25 jured before he was subdued by “heroic” patrons and arrted by police who arrived wh mut, thori said spect the Saturday night shootg at Club Q ed an AR-15-style semitomatic weapon, a law enforcement official said.