First Publicly Gay NYC Police Officer | November 20, 1981 - Natnal Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund

Contents:

• POLICE AT PRI? GAY PS, LGBTQ ACTIVISTS STGGLE TO SEE EYE-TO-EYE
• PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
• THE COPS STANDG WH, AND FOR, THE GAY COMMUNI THEY SERVE
• GAY POLICE SGT. ASKS DENVER PRIFT ANIZERS TO RENSIR CISN TO EXCLU OFFICERS
• GAY POLICE OFFICER FIGHTS FOR FEELG PRI THE FORCE
• GAY. FEMALE. COP.: THE INTERSECTNALY OF GENR AND SEXUAL ORIENTATN POLICE CULTURE
• G OUTPOLICIER ET GAY, VOILà MENT J'AI FA MON G OUT
• FIRST PUBLICLY GAY NYC POLICE OFFICER | NOVEMBER 20, 1981

POLICE AT PRI? GAY PS, LGBTQ ACTIVISTS STGGLE TO SEE EYE-TO-EYE

That's a setback for the e of NEWSJune 27, 2021Gay ps ‘disappoted’ by Pri’s law-enforcement banNY POSTJune 26, 2021LGBTQ Police Officers Derve a Place the NYC Pri MarchLA BLADEJune 26, 2021NYPD Gay Officers Unn Head Speaks Out Over Pri's Cop BanWCBS NEWS RADIO 880June 25, 2021NYPD officers speak out about beg siled Pri marchCNNJune 25, 2021NYC Pri anizers lled out by gay officers for banng police om para: This is not 'cln'FOX NEWSJune 25, 2021#TogetherInPri: NYPD, Gay Officers Actn League Highlight Progrs For LGBTQIA+ MembersCBS NEW YORKJune 24, 2021NYPD, GOAL Unveil Internal Effort to Foc on LGBTQ CommunyGAY CITY NEWSJune 24, 2021NYC Pri Ban On Police Uniforms Reflects TensnsASSOCIATED PRESS TELEVISION NEWSJune 24, 2021NYPD Detective reacts to the NYC Pri Para banng uniformed ps om marchgMSNBCJune 24, 2021LGBTQ ps want Pri anizers to 'stop seeg as the enemy'YAHOO! A gay officer and NY para anizer talk through the falloutThe New York TimJune 9, 2021Op-Ed: Embrace InclnGay Cy NewsJune 3, 2021Why the LGBTQ muny siled police for PriABC NewsMay 29, 2021A Passnate Plea for—and Agast—Police at PriAdvoteMay 27, 2021Opn: Let LGBTQ ps march New York Cy’s pri paraThe Washgton PostMay 23, 2021Gay Officers Actn League Print Oppos Pri's Uniformed Law Enforcement BanNPRMay 22, 2021NYPD Pri March Ban: Hear From a Cop & an OrganizerNBC 4 New YorkMay 21, 2021The Pri Para's Anti-Police Insult: A Gay NYPD Official Speaks Out NY Daily NewsMay 20, 2021NYPD Sgt. Ana Arboleda of the Gay Officers Actn LeagueFOX 4 NYMay 20, 2021Gay Officers Actn League reacts to NYC Pri para banPIX 11May 20, 2021Gay Pri Para Discrimat Agast Gay Cops: Demonizg an entire profsn is not the shortt path to crimal jtice reformReasonMay 18, 2021A Misstep by the Organizers of PriThe New York TimMay 18, 2021Gay police group blasts NYC Pri for banng officers om eventsUSA TODAYMay 18, 2021NYPD: Law Enforcement Banned From NYC Pri March, ‘Runs Counter To Our Shared Valu Of Incln And Tolerance’CBS New YorkMay 17, 2021Police groups banned om NYC Pri eventsNY 1May 16, 2021Decisn to exclu gay police group om Pri para is ‘hurtful and disappotg, ’ top NYPD spox saysNY DAILY NEWSMay 16, 2021Cops banned om participatg NYC Pri eventsNY PostMay 15, 2021New York Cy Pri para anizers ban ps om marchg uniformNewsdayMay 15, 2021Pri Para anizers bar gay police officers’ group om marchg 2022 eventNY Daily NewsMay 14, 2021Gay NYPD Officer Both Supportg and Securg Pri MarchThe Wall Street JournalJul 26, 2019NYPD holds s Pri celebratn, unterterrorism chief gets Ally Award1010 WsJul 12, 2019How NYC police's relatnship wh LGBTQ+ muny changed after Stonewall UprisgABC NewsMay 21, 2019How a small group of LGBTQ ps changed the NYPD foreverNY PostDecember 18, 2018NYPD, Gay Officers Actn League scribe beg discrimated agast powerful documentaryPIX 11November 14, 2019An LGBT Group Is Changg the NYPD From WhAdvoteJuly 18, 2018Police at Pri?

Gay ps, LGBTQ activists stggle to see eye-to-eyeNBC NewsJune 23, 2018NYPD outl secury for NYC Pri MarchNY 1June 22, 2018The Cops Standg Wh, and for, the Gay Communi They ServeNatn SwellJune 22, 2018NYPD Honors 9/11 Hero Whose Health Is DeterratgNBC 4 New YorkJune 13, 2018Auxiliary officer who got ncer after rpondg as a civilian to Ground Zero honored at NYPD gay pri eventNY Daily NewsJune 13, 2018GOAL NY on Elvis Duran & The Morng Show Discs 2018 Natnal Police WeekZ-100 Elvis Duran & The Morng ShowMay 15, 2018GOAL’s Marathon for Acceptance the NYPDGay Cy NewsMay 09, 2018Police rally for former SWAT officer who says he was harassed for beg gayPIX 11Febary 27, 2018Fellow officers rally for laid-off p who says he was targeted for beg gayNJ.

Febary 23, 2018New York’s Police Department Gets Real Gay for PriHorJune 23, 2017NYPD provis clear guil for how transgenr ps n rm superrs of preferred pronouns, namNY Daily NewsJune 22, 2017Gay Officer's Actn League Pri Celebratn held NYCABC 7 New YorkJune 21, 2017NYPD set to make transn easier for transgenr psNY PostJune 21, 2017NYPD gay officers group to honor ‘twerk p’ Michael Hance who died of 9/11-lked ncerNY Daily NewsJune 17, 2017"Let's not take away om the urage of a transgenr police officer on the job" - Brian DowneyThe John Oakley ShowMay 23, 2017GOAL NY v Toronto Police Officers to march alongsi NYPD 2017 NYC Pri MarchCP24May 22, 2017Newly promoted sergeant is a proud lbian who lls the NYPD her send fayNY Daily NewsMay 14, 2017GOAL NY live on Elvis Duran & The Morng ShowZ-100 Elvis Duran & The Morng ShowOctober 11, 2017Transgenr on the ForceThe New York TimAugt 05, 2016LGBT members of the NYPD proudly march durg annual Pri ParaPIX 11June 26, 2016A Cop Who Really Was New York’s FtGay Cy NewsJune 23, 2016NYPD shows support for gay pri wh new-look patrol SUVNY PostJune 22, 2016A Gay Officer Cght Between Two WorldsThe Wall Street JournalJune 21, 2016NYC renam tersectn for policeman who found LGBT groupPIX 11June 17, 2016Gay NYPD Officer Who Came Out at Cy Hearg Honored Street RenamgDNA InfoJune 17, 2016A Day Of Pri at NYPD HeadquartersThe Wall Street JournalJune 15, 2016At Pri Event, Police Move to Mend Bond Wh Gay New YorkersThe New York TimJune 15, 2016NYPD Groups Jo Queens’ St.

PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.

Patrick’s Day Para In Solidary Wh LGBT MembersHuff PostFebary 02, 2016Sam Cicne, a Champn of Gay Police Officers, Di at 71The New York TimMay 17, 2015Gay NYPD ps seek honor for hero sergeant who me out three s agoNY Daily NewsSeptember 16, 2013. Every summer the Uned Stat, the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny and alli e together for a month-long celebratn of love, diversy, acceptance and unashamed 's everythg you need to know about LGBT Pri is LGBT Pri Month? And around the globe, acrdg to the Library of CongrsParticipants the annual New York Gay Pri Para march the Wt Village Manhattan, June 25, 2017 New York Cy.

The month of June was chosen for LGBT Pri Month to memorate the rts held by members of the LGBT muny agast a police raid that took place at the Stonewall Inn New York Cy on June 28, so-lled Stonewall rts were a "tippg pot" for the gay liberatn movement the Uned Stat, acrdg to the Library of Congrs. Army veteran, created the flag 1978 as a new symbol for the gay and lbian polil movement, at the suggtn of his iends and lleagu, cludg Harvey Milk, a San Francis cy supervisor and the first openly gay elected official California.

Jt before members of the Gay Officers Actn League (GOAL) marched past the Stonewall Inn, the fish le of last year’s New York Cy Pri March, a small group of activists slipped past the barriers and chaed their hands together to prevent the officers om passg, a prott technique lled a “lockdown. ”Dozens of ps workg secury at the march surround the protters, and, over shouts of “f--k the police” and “racist, sexist, anti-gay, NYPD, KKK, ” began to break through what appeared to be chas and bber tub the protters had ed to lock themselv together. Pacific Prs / LightRocket via Getty Imag fileThe irony of the cint was not lost on many the crowd — ps arrtg gay people ont of the Stonewall Inn, the very place where homophobic police btaly sparked the morn LGBTQ rights movement nearly five s years prr.

THE COPS STANDG WH, AND FOR, THE GAY COMMUNI THEY SERVE

In fact, New York Cy’s first gay pri march, which was held on June 28, 1970, was anized to memorate the one-year anniversary of what has bee known as the Stonewall Rts — when 1969 patrons of the now-inic gay bar fally had enough after yet another police raid. Nohels, protters say they’re dog so to take a stand agast police btaly and harassment of margalized groups, namely people of lor and the transgenr DAYS OF GOALThe relatnship between the police and the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny has long been ght, but for LGBTQ ps, the right to march pri is a hard-fought civil rights the after that first pri march on June 28, 1970, New York’s gay rights movement ma so much progrs that by 1981 the police force self was facg LGBTQ activism om wh. Gay ps New York Cy, for example, led by Officer Charl Cochrane, sought to form their own employee rource group, like the on that existed for Hispanic, Irish-Amerin and Ain-Amerin Rodriguez, now a retired NYPD sergeant, was still the New York Cy Police Amy when Officer Cochrane entered his classroom 1982.

A few months earlier, Cochrane had bee the first NYPD officer to publicly e out when he announced that he was gay at a cy uncil meetg November 1981. Courty Edgar RodriguezLater that day, a woman om Rodriguez’s Police Amy class asked him which room the gay officers’ group was meetg .

GAY POLICE SGT. ASKS DENVER PRIFT ANIZERS TO RENSIR CISN TO EXCLU OFFICERS

”Rodriguez, who kept his sexualy to himself his early days as a p, relled overhearg on several ocsns racist, sexist and homophobic ments om his largely straight, whe and male lleagu back he was posted to New York Cy’s 6th Precct, which vers Greenwich Village, he relled a senr officer askg him, “So you work wh all the fags? He relled a particularly dntg cint when a fellow officer who had been patrollg Mabs Dam Park, where the new Yankee Stadium now stands, enuntered a well-known gay cisg area. He was still closeted to most of his fellow officers, but when he was off duty, he lived openly the gay neighborhoods of New York Cy.

C., to Sacramento, a number of progrsive LGBTQ activists, some of them too young to remember the gay police activism of the ‘80s and ‘90s, view ps to be an unwele — and even threateng — prence at pri addn to gettg ps out of pri, many of the different activist groups also have an array of social jtice mands. However, this year members of the Gay Officers Actn League will march, as they have every year sce 1996, uniform wh their guns FORWARDRodriguez said while he knows where the protters are g om, he disagre wh their tactics. Rodriguez said when he was policg the 6th Precct, which vers much of Manhattan’s gay neighborhoods, he once saw a transgenr woman wh blood streamg down her cheek nng away om a group of men.

”NYPD Detective Brian Downey, the current print of the Gay Officers Actn League, said imagery of uniformed LGBTQ ps marchg proudly “is powerful, ” and he hop will prevent people the muny, like the trans woman Rodriguez scribed, om beg aaid of ps. ” 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.

GAY POLICE OFFICER FIGHTS FOR FEELG PRI THE FORCE

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. But as the print of the force’s only LGBTQ aternal anizatn — the Gay Officers Actn League, or GOAL — his other role is to serve and support his brothers and sisters drsed blue … and rabows.

As part of the force, they’re navigatg the very stutn largely rponsible for the vlence that led to the morn gay rights movement. In 1969, New York Cy officers raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay club Greenwich Village, sparkg vlent protts and clash that lasted six days. “It’s an ongog procs, y, but ’s important for the [gay muny] — which has this mentaly based on history that you n’t be both gay and a police officer — to see that there are gay ps out there.

GAY. FEMALE. COP.: THE INTERSECTNALY OF GENR AND SEXUAL ORIENTATN POLICE CULTURE

Before he joed the force 17 years ago, Locke was a social worker and director at the Gay and Lbian Anti-Vlence Project, where he vtigated s of police vlence agast the gay muny. On June 12, a few weeks before this year’s Pri Para, Downey stood at the ont of an dorium New York’s police headquarters for an annual event to honor the cy’s gay officers.

Even as recently as a few years ago, GOAL wasn’t allowed to hold Pri Month events, like the one this month to regnize their gay lleagu, at police headquarters.

G OUTPOLICIER ET GAY, VOILà MENT J'AI FA MON G OUT

Jam Tracy of the Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, police partment, the abily to be openly gay while the police force is important to make those meangful chang.

Reports n be found across the Uned Stat of police allegedly g excsive force agast lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people. The multiday prott — wily nsired a pivotal turng pot the morn gay rights movement — was triggered by a police raid on the popular Stonewall Inn gay bar.

History, police officers were bound to enforce explicly anti-gay laws — om lol measur outlawg men om “impersonatg a female” to the wispread crimalizatn of same-sex sexual activy. She poted to a study published by the Williams Instute May that found lbian, gay, bisexual and queer people are six tim more likely than the general public to be stopped by police (data about transgenr dividuals were not available the datasets analyzed). Prr to the start of this trag, negative attus about the LGBTQ muny were reportedly pervasive wh the partment: In 1996, durg a retrag of veteran officers, a word associatn exercise asked for rpons to the word “gays.

FIRST PUBLICLY GAY NYC POLICE OFFICER | NOVEMBER 20, 1981

Gtavo Alvarez, a gay rint of Palo Alto, California, settled his lawsu agast s police partment after accg of vlatg his civil rights, rultg a settlement that clud a $572, 500 payout and a one-off two hours of mandatory LGBTQ-awarens trag for all police officers the partment. “There was no secret that he was gay, and the officers fely ed that as a way to mean him their prr ntacts wh him and also durg this ntact. In New York Cy — where LGBTQ trag is provid by the Gay Officers Actn League (GOAL) for both new recs and veteran officers — Cummgs wants the police missner to be a civilian and lgs om the Civilian Complat Review Board, the NYPD’s oversight agency, be bdg.

"In the email, which was first published by The Sentel, Hummel wr about his early stggl as both a gay man and a gay police officer. "We've gone om the Stonewall rts to an age where now we have openly gay police servg on police forc, " he never thought he'd be unwele at a pri para. I vividly remember begng my reer law enforcement and beg absolutely mortified of how I would ever progrs such a reer as a gay man.