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.
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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. “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.
NYPD UNVEILS RABOW-THEMED VEHICLE BEFORE CY'S GAY PRI MARCH
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. 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. “Gay liberatn, ” she said, “meant revolutn.
” The monstrators left angry but clash between protters and police fillg social media, prsure rose on Herage of Pri to rce police volvement, cludg banng the Gay Officers Actn League, which routely receiv effive cheers durg the Pri march. ” The board did not tell members about the cisn or ask for a the Gay Officers Actn League learned about the g policy, pre-empted Herage of Pri wh s own statement llg the ban “shameful.
#TOGETHERINPRI: NYPD, GAY OFFICERS ACTN LEAGUE HIGHLIGHT PROGRS FOR LGBTQIA+ MEMBERS
“My God, what a bate over this, ” said Andy Humm, a longtime -host of “Gay USA, ” a TV news program. In the past week, he told them, he had received onle msag of hate nsistently om whe gay men, to the extent that his fay feared for his safety. Fisher, who had lled for the vote of no Downey, print of the gay officers group, said he felt “betrayed” by the ban, pecially bee the officers “put so much of themselv on the choppg block” by workg to change practic and attus wh their partments.
After all, the march memorat the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg, which the NYPD btally enforced unjt laws that effectively crimalized beg gay. The protts that followed beme the foundatn of the gay rights the participants, Pri n only be te to form if matas s origal anti-tablishment bent. Charl Henry Cochrane Jr., who 1981 beme the first active out gay officer the then-136-year history of the partment.
The unn’s vice print at the time, Pat Burns, stated he knew of no gay ps the entire force.