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- HE WAS ONE OF THE NATN’S MOST REVERED GAY PS. HIS ARRT CHANGED EVERYTHG.
- HE WAS ONE OF THE NATN'S MOST REVERED GAY PS. HIS ARRT CHANGED EVERYTHG.
- US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
- HE WAS ONE OF THE NATN'S MOST REVERED GAY PS. HIS ARRT CHANGED EVERYTHG.
- HE WAS ONE OF NATN’S MOST REVERED GAY PS. HIS ARRT CHANGED EVERYTHG…
HE WAS ONE OF THE NATN’S MOST REVERED GAY PS. HIS ARRT CHANGED EVERYTHG.
Miller/TWP) RIGHT: Parson, shown here 2005, was known natnally and ternatnally as a pneer of gay rights policg. ’ ”The teenager began to tell the officers the story he would repeat at least three tim that night, cludg at the sexual asslt treatment center where he was taken after his parents were ’d met Parson on Growlr, a datg app for gay men that requir ers to be 18. The man who had jt driven away was known natnally and ternatnally as a pneer of gay rights the natn’s pal, Parson built an award-wng liaison un that vtigated hate crim, beiend advot and marched Pri paras, slowly revolutnizg the relatnship between the police and the cy’s LGBTQ muny.
HE WAS ONE OF THE NATN'S MOST REVERED GAY PS. HIS ARRT CHANGED EVERYTHG.
”Endg ‘fairy shakg’Parson’s reputatn as a gay hero began wh a sndal.
US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
Officer was statng himself outsi a gay club Southeast Washgton. ”The chief stalled after the sndal, Charl Ramsey, saw a solutn to that problem: bolsterg and broang a newly formed Gay and Lbian Liaison, then his early 30s, had been openly gay sce he joed the force. “I was really, really aaid that my reputatn was gog to change om beg a good p who happened to be gay, to beg a gay p that ed to be a good p.
HE WAS ONE OF THE NATN'S MOST REVERED GAY PS. HIS ARRT CHANGED EVERYTHG.
Rather than raid gay clubs, Parson and the five to 15 members of his un would announce themselv over the loudspeaker, then walk around, troduce themselv and pass out reigerator mags wh their phone number on .
HE WAS ONE OF NATN’S MOST REVERED GAY PS. HIS ARRT CHANGED EVERYTHG…
The number was the workaround for those the muny who need help, but worried about the repercsns of llg 911: a gay man experiencg domtic abe om his partner or a transgenr woman wantg to report a hate crime. (Carol Guzy/The Washgton Post) Wh three years of Parson’s beg put charge, the un won a distguished service award om the cy’s Gay and Lbian Activists Alliance, an anizatn formed part to prott discrimatn by law enforcement.