D.C. Police Arrt 26 Men for Gay Sex Feral Park, Lawyer Says It's Entrapment

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• WASHGTON DC GAY DISTRICT: DUPONT CIRCLE
• D.C. POLICE ARRT 26 MEN FOR GAY SEX FERAL PARK, LAWYER SAYS IT'S ENTRAPMENT
• GAY MEN ARRTED WASHGTON D.C. FOR CISG ‘REMISCENT OF STONEWALL’
• D.C. PARK POLICE ARE CISG GAY MEN AND ARRTG THEM
• WASHGTON DC GAY BARS
• WASHGTON GAY CISE CLUBS
• WASHGTON DC GAY DISTRICT: DUPONT CIRCLE
• THE CREW CLUBWASHGTON DC'S PREMIER GAY SNA & GYM.WASHGTON DCMENULUXURY HOTELSMID-RANGE HOTELSON TODAYBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASGAY MAPSHOPSTHE CREW CLUB
• WASHGTON DC GAY BARS

WASHGTON DC GAY DISTRICT: DUPONT CIRCLE

Like most pals, Washgton DC offers a robt and dynamic gay district which ters to a range of different tast. Rather than one specific gay area, the scene Washgton has most pals, Washgton DC offers a robt and dynamic gay district which ters to a range of different tast. Rather than one specific gay area, the scene Washgton has dispersed through different neighborhoods of the cy.

Most gay life, however, n be found around 17th Street Dupont Circle, and U Street Logan Circle. DCs gayt street is 17th Street, and here you will fd a host of gay spots ready to open their doors.

Word has that this place offers one of the bt gay atmospher town, and s monthly 80s dance party ‘The Breakfast Club Remix’ is a sure fire h wh the lols. A past-time that’s pretty much bee scribed Washgton’s gay scene.

D.C. POLICE ARRT 26 MEN FOR GAY SEX FERAL PARK, LAWYER SAYS IT'S ENTRAPMENT

To the north of Logan Circle, U Street has unrgone a massive transformatn, and is now brimmg wh some of the bt gay bars and clubs Washgton. Nellie’s Sports Bar was the first gay venue to open outsi of Dupont Circle, and has reached legendary stat thanks to s popular events cludg trivia and drag bgo. ""[It's] remiscent of the Stonewall days when gay men were often the target of police discrimatn.

"Sargeant Delgado was unable to nfirm whether the arrts were at the hands of uniformed or placloth Washgton Post scrib Meridian Hill Park as a "gatherg place for all of the District's disparate trib: black and whe, rich and poor, young and old, immigrant and lol, gay and straight, borg and bizarre.

GAY MEN ARRTED WASHGTON D.C. FOR CISG ‘REMISCENT OF STONEWALL’

" It's also long been nsired cisg spot for gay men of lor. "Defense attorneys argued the Pleasure Emporium is such a bs, "well-known and advertised as a gay cisg 'hookup' area. Washgton Park Police are facg claims of “discrimatn” after allegedly lurg gay men to sexual enunters orr to arrt them for sex crim.

The 12-acre urban park has been known for at least 50 years as a cisg spot for mostly Ain-Amerin gay men.

Enticg gay men to m a crime was mon the pre-Stonewall days when the police equently ed entrapment to arrt homosexuals on the charge of “generate disorrly nduct”.

D.C. PARK POLICE ARE CISG GAY MEN AND ARRTG THEM

“I fd this pattern extremely disturbg and remiscent of the Stonewall days when gay men were often the target of police discrimatn.

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WASHGTON DC GAY BARS

Larry Craig, R-Idaho, a men's rtroom at the Mneapolis airport for allegedly lookg to engage gay sex wrote his June report that he "regnized a signal ed by persons wishg to engage lewd nduct. Craig told reporters today that he did nothg appropriate and said his guilty plea was a plac like men's rtrooms, airports and tra statns, tck stops, universy librari and parks, have long been plac where gay and bisexual men, particularly those the closet, ngregate orr to meet for anonymo time, people faiar wh cisg told, gay men began g a dified system of signals to dite to others that they were terted sex. In an effort to curb lewd acts public — or as some gays argue, an effort to persecute gay men — unrver police began stg operatns plac known for sex solicg and employed the same s.

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Bee much of the signalg is self benign behavr, some gay rights activists and lawyers have admonished police partments for arrtg men who have done ltle more than tap their feet. "Cizens have a right not to nont lewd activy public plac, " said Steve Sanrs, a lawyer and gay rights activist.

"But if there is evince that a stg is motivated by anti-gay anim, that may reprent a more troublg issue.

WASHGTON DC GAY DISTRICT: DUPONT CIRCLE

If a se like this went to trial, police officers would have to produce evince to say here is how we n say wh certaty this is was really a lewd act, " he plead guilty to the charg and therefore opted agast a, Craig nied beg gay and said he ma a mistake by pleadg officers, for the most part, only vtigate an area after members of the public have plaed about beg ed for sex, said Rich Gregson, executive director of the California Peace Officers Associatn.

"Wh many other optns available for gay men to meet each other, Gershen Kfman, a profsor emer of psychology at Michigan State Universy and thor of the book "Comg Out of Shame, " said public cisg is practiced maly by eply closeted men.

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Entreprenrs – many of them gay men – opened nightlife bs that proudly tered to queer clientel, permtg and even enuragg drag, same-sex dancg, and same-sex sexual enunters. So many LGBTQ bs and anizatns led Capol Hill’s 8th Street mercial rridor that the Bla dubbed the thoroughfare Washgton’s “Gay Way.