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

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• A BRIEF HISTORY OF GOAL, THE GAY P CLUB BOOTED OM NYC PRI
• POLICE: GUNMAN ENTERED GAY CLUB, IMMEDIATELY STARTED FIRG
• FIRST OPENLY GAY COUPLE JOS BOSTON POLICE FORCE

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

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POLICE: GUNMAN ENTERED GAY CLUB, IMMEDIATELY STARTED FIRG

In film, a orchtrated versn was played, tuned pecially for makg some hilar sensatn (now, that song are a homosexual hymn some plac of Spa and Southameri, but a faked way). 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.

FIRST OPENLY GAY COUPLE JOS BOSTON POLICE FORCE

For many years, gay officers were shunned by lleagu for participatg as civilians durg Pri events. 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.

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. However, the same police officer probably would not spect domtic vlence a lbian or gay uple.

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.

Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea.”Ahn was so aaid of his parents’ reactn if he me out to them that he had a backpack and a iend on standby se he need to leave. In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture.” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub.

He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island,” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year. Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor. But the muny is beg visible — California now has an out Asian Amerin ngrsman and state legislators — and partyg person remas an important way to nnect, even an onle age.“Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1,000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual,” said Ahn, 37.On a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi se.Some posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead.

“If we get our face out there, then people will start takg a ltle more serly.” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak. In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek.” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian.” Duran eventually rigned om his posn as mayor, cg health reasons, after several other allegatns of sexual harassment.Miss Shu Mai, a Taiwane Amerin drag queen who hosted the K-Pop Night, relled seeg whe actors yellowface — makp that ma them look East Asian L.A.’s drag scene.