On Thursday, the NYPD and learship om the Gay Officers Actn League gave an update on new polici for LGBTQIA+ members.
Contents:
- PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
- NYPD UNVEILS RABOW-THEMED VEHICLE BEFORE CY'S GAY PRI MARCH
- #TOGETHERINPRI: NYPD, GAY OFFICERS ACTN LEAGUE HIGHLIGHT PROGRS FOR LGBTQIA+ MEMBERS
PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
A NYPD vehicle has been specifilly pated for this Sunday's Gay Pri Para New York Cy. * nypd gay pride *
Today, Police Commissner Dermot Shea and learship om the Gay Officers Actn League (GOAL) highlighted progrs that the NYPD has ma for LGBTQIA+ members of service and New Yorkers cywi. Not only will a private secury firm take the lead on securg the event – though the NYPD will still be prent a more limed pacy and at a distance, anizers say – but the Gay Officers’ Actn League (GOAL), the LGBTQ+ anizatn of NYPD officers, will not be allowed to participate.
While NYC PRIDE has emphasized this year’s March is largely virtual, and the -person march has been sled down to highlight this year’s grand marshals and a handful of muny groups, the cisn has eliced a strong rponse om the NYPD and, most crilly, om gay officers who fd themselv two petg muni. Be proud of beg gay. She feels that the visibily of LGBTQ+ officers is eply important to mendg relatns between law enforcement and the gay muny.
NYPD UNVEILS RABOW-THEMED VEHICLE BEFORE CY'S GAY PRI MARCH
“The only thg that was achieved here was not banng the NYPD; was banng GOAL; was banng gay officers, ” Samuel said.
LGBTQIA+ refers to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer/qutng, tersex and asexual groups, and BIPOC stands for Black, Indigeno and people of lor.
The first Pri march began as protts a year after the 1969 Stonewall rts, when the NYPD raid a gay bar Manhattan’s Greenwich Village at a time when police routely harassed gay people and tablishments.
#TOGETHERINPRI: NYPD, GAY OFFICERS ACTN LEAGUE HIGHLIGHT PROGRS FOR LGBTQIA+ MEMBERS
The Gay Officers Actn League, or GOAL, an anizatn that reprents LGBTQIA+ NYPD officers, said that the event anizers were takg “the low road. ” On a rooftop at the end of the day, after some drks, he lled home and told his father that he was gay. So I uld see the Herage of Pri para as this thg for whe gay men, mcly, glter.