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Contents:

• THE COPS STANDG WH, AND FOR, THE GAY COMMUNI THEY SERVE
• I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF GOAL, THE GAY P CLUB BOOTED OM NYC PRI
• ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS
• SPECT COLORADO LGBTQ NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG HAD NEO-NAZI LEANGS, TARGETED GAY PEOPLE, OFFICERS TTIFY
• “A GAY OFFICER CGHT BETWEEN TWO WORLDS”
• RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)

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

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. 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. “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.

I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK

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.

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

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.

ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS

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. But as a gay man, I have been fightg my whole life to enjoy the very privileg I am entled to as both a beholr and protector of them. I was one of few soldiers who joed the service before graduatg high school, but the admistratn at the time, which I believe was homophobic, chose to act as if I never existed bee of my queer hate that I experienced growg up on Long Island was my first enunter wh how others would treat me as a queer soldier.

SPECT COLORADO LGBTQ NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG HAD NEO-NAZI LEANGS, TARGETED GAY PEOPLE, OFFICERS TTIFY

Raids on gay bars and bathho served to spire the historic Stonewall rts that lnched the morn LGBTQ+ rights movement the U.

“A GAY OFFICER CGHT BETWEEN TWO WORLDS”

Fifty years after the Black Cat protts Los Angel, which directly led to the lnch of The Advote, we take a look at some of the most nsequential strik on gay bars and bathho datg back more than a century. The rmatn gathered actually led to a wir vtigatn of homosexualy nearby ci, which rulted 20 arrts, cludg two ps on the Baker Street beat, acrdg to Allan Bebe’s A History of Bathho. Moral reformers New York Cy raised polil prsure on police the 1920s to shut down the Lafayette Brothers’ Turkish Baths, a popular spot for gay men livg and visg the cy.

RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)

A German gay magaze 1929 published an acunt of a 26-year-old European visor that said eight tectiv went unrver the bathhoe, then round all patrons the ont room and beat the guts. Loted between Los Angel gay bars Harold’s and the Waldorf, Cooper’s Donuts at night beme a hub of social activy for drag queens, gays, trans people, and htlers the 1950s.