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• HE WAS ONE OF THE NATN’S MOST REVERED GAY PS. HIS ARRT CHANGED EVERYTHG.
• PROSECUTORS DISMISS SEX CRIM CHARG AGAST GAY FORMER D.C. COP
• REHOBOTH’S GALLERY 50 TO HOST SHOWS BY TWO GAY ARTISTS
• FLORIDA GAY NU RORT CAN’T BAN WOMEN, JUDGE RUL
• FLORIDA CHIEF ON LEAVE FOR ALLEGED REMARKS ON GAY P'S RONAVIS ATH
• HOMOPHOBE POSED AS POLICE OFFICER TO ATTACK GAY MEN POPULAR ‘CISG SPOT’, PROSECUTORS SAY
• GAY D.C. REPORTER ARRTED OH FOR LIVE BROADST
• D.C. POLICE ARRT 26 MEN FOR GAY SEX FERAL PARK, LAWYER SAYS IT'S ENTRAPMENT
• 12 ARRTED GAY CISG AREA NEAR REHOBOTH BEACH

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.

”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.

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 . 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.

PROSECUTORS DISMISS SEX CRIM CHARG AGAST GAY FORMER D.C. COP

(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. Parson boasted that, on a police force wh few openly gay ps, his imposg figure earned him rpect. ” The term is sometim ed by adults the gay muny who intify or prent as and the teenager unlocked the app’s “private media” feature, allowg them to see revealg pictur of each other.

Advot who work wh gay youth say ’s mon for teenagers to explore on datg apps that allow them to meet strangers, pecially if they don’t feel safe exprsg themselv at home or vulnerable kids also e datg apps to seek out adults who will pay them, though mors nnot legally nsent to beg purchased for sex.

REHOBOTH’S GALLERY 50 TO HOST SHOWS BY TWO GAY ARTISTS

“I don’t thk a life should be stroyed over one foolish event late one night, pecially when the ntact was ma on a se where everyone is supposed to be a mimum of 18, ” said Rick Rosendall, former print of the Gay and Lbian Activists Alliance.

Dubbed the “don’t say gay” law by opponents, s supporters bandied about terms like “groomg” to create false lks between homosexualy and child abe, which is mted by people of all sexual orientatns. “Somethg like this jt plays right to their narrative, ” said John Guggenmos, owner of several gay nightclubs D. ) Police Department, says the 16-year-old told police he and Parson met on the gay onle datg app lled Growlr and agreed to meet for a possible sexual enunter after exchangg “explic” photos of each other.

FLORIDA GAY NU RORT CAN’T BAN WOMEN, JUDGE RUL

“RT advised the officers that he was g Growlr, a datg applitn for gay men, to munite wh a male who intified himself as Brett, ” the affidav ntu.

The affidav do not say — and uld not immediately be termed — whether RT self intifi as gay, whether he was out to his parents as a gay person before the cint wh Parson surfaced, or whether his parents are supportive of his sexual orientatn. Gay activist Rick Rosendall said Parson’s arrt rais the issue of teenage sexualy that the prevailg polil and social climate do not appear ready to addrs.

Police litenant who head the cy’s former Gay and Lbian Liaison Un, garnerg a natnal reputatn for buildg tst between law enforcement and unr-served muni. In explag the ratnale for droppg the se, assistant state attorney Danielle Lennox said the two had met on Growlr, a gay datg applitn.

FLORIDA CHIEF ON LEAVE FOR ALLEGED REMARKS ON GAY P'S RONAVIS ATH

They’d met on a datg app for gay men, and they’d already met up at another lotn, which wasn’t private enough, the police documents said. Parson, who durg his reer led DC’s Gay and Lbian Liaison Un, “was arrted Broward County, Florida, Febary 2022 and charged wh two unts of unlawful sexual activy wh a mor — a 16-year-old boy, ” WTOP reported on Tuday. The teenager told officers he had been g the gay datg app Growlr and had agreed to meet up wh Parson.

Prosecutors Florida have dropped felony charg volvg sex wh a mor agast a gay, retired, proment former Washgton, D. ”Assistant State Attorney Danielle Lennox explaed her reason for not prosecutg a March 9 memorandum that The Advote wr that Parson, then 53, and a 16-year-old boy met on a gay datg app, Growlr, where the teenager had dited he was 19.

HOMOPHOBE POSED AS POLICE OFFICER TO ATTACK GAY MEN POPULAR ‘CISG SPOT’, PROSECUTORS SAY

But the other driver, a 16-year-old boy, told police he and Parson had jt engaged sexual boy reported that he first nnected wh Parson on Growlr, a datg app for gay men. ’s Logan Circle on Thursday night for a ndlelight gatherg of remembrance for gay longtime District rints Jocko Fajardo and Tarik Pierce, who were wily admired for their support of LGBTQ muny .

About a dozen people spoke at the Logan Circle gatherg, and the Gay Men’s Chos of Washgton sang several songs honor of the two men’s liv. Gay bars Pchers and A League of Her Own and a iend of both Fajardo and Pierce, told the memorial gatherg openg remarks.

People who knew Fajardo have said he was a longtime supporter of SMYAL and the Gay Men’s Chos as well as other lol LGBTQ anizatns. Parson, 53, plead not guilty to charg that he engaged oral sex wh a 16-year-old he met on the Growlr gay datg app. Davie police Chief Dale Engle has been placed on admistrative leave after officers at his Florida statn filed a unn plat allegg that he dismissed their ncerns about ronavis protectn measur and blamed the COVID-19 fataly of a Broward County puty sheriffon his Chief Dale Police April 7, amid a ronavis outbreak at the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, police officers Davie — a town the unty — attempted to raise ncerns wh Engle about their risk of ntractg COVID-19, the disease ed by the rponse to the officers' ncerns, Engle allegedly orred them to stand formatn for spectn and berated them for raisg the health issue, acrdg to a plat filed by the Florida State Lodge of the Fraternal Orr of Police (FLFOP) then allegedly proceed to blame the ath of openly gay Broward County Deputy Sheriff Shannon Bent on a “backstory, " claimg he died bee he was a “homosexual who attend homosexual events.

GAY D.C. REPORTER ARRTED OH FOR LIVE BROADST

”Jonathan Frey, who was engaged to Bent, issued a statement llg Engle’s reported remarks “pletely false, homophobic, and slanro, ” sayg he looked forward to the rults of the vtigatn. ”The Natnal Fraternal Orr of Police tweeted that, if Engle's “disgtg” alleged remarks are te, he should be s plat, the Florida State Lodge of the Fraternal Orr of Police said Engle's “rogatory referenc to homosexualy and Deputy Bent are shameful” and don’t reflect the welg nature of Henng, the legislative affairs director for the Florida Fraternal Orr of Police, said the unn filed the plat to better advote for officers who are creasgly ncerned about their risk of ntractg COVID-19 amid wi reports of shortag of personal protective equipment, or PPE.

Man posg as police officer allegedly attacked five gay men at Washgton DC park (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washgton Post via Getty Imag). A man allegedly posed as a police officer before attackg gay men wh “chemil irrants” a Washgton, DC cisg spot.

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

Acrdg to last year’s figur, between January and Augt of 2021 at least 14, 670 homophobic hate crim were rerd the UK.

Parson faced two unts of unlawful sexual activy wh a spent more than 26 years wh the Metropolan Police Department and led the partment’s Gay and Lbian Liason retired 2020 but stayed wh the partment as a part-time rerve officer.

12 ARRTED GAY CISG AREA NEAR REHOBOTH BEACH

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