She says the sheriff fired her for beg gay. Now, she'll be the sheriff.

Contents:

• DAVE HUTCHSON POISED TO BEE FIRST OPENLY GAY SHERIFF IN MIDWT
• SHE SAYS THE SHERIFF FIRED HER FOR BEG GAY. NOW, SHE'LL BE THE SHERIFF.
• HILLSBOROUGH’S SHERIFF PUBLICIZED A SEX STG. DID TARGET GAY MEN?
• SAM GAY – THE SAGEBSH SHERIFF
• MIDWT’S FIRST GAY SHERIFF: DAVE HUTCHSON ELECTED TOP COP MN’S HENNEP COUNTY STUNNG UPSET
• GAY SHERIFF SERIAL SERI
• GAY ARIZ. SHERIFF FENDS OFF NEW ATTACK -- OM SISTER

DAVE HUTCHSON POISED TO BEE FIRST OPENLY GAY SHERIFF IN MIDWT

Dave “Hutch” Hutchson on Wednday appeared to have narrowly feated three-term cumbent Sheriff Rich Stanek Hennep County, Mnota, all but guaranteeg his tle as the first openly gay sheriff the an credibly tight race, the 39-year-old veteran police officer clared an unofficial victory over Stanek, a Print Donald Tmp supporter whose crics say he was too amenable to feral immigratn early Wednday morng, 100 percent of the unty’s preccts had reported their electn rults, suggtg Hutchson had won roughly 2, 300 more vot than Stanek, a former Mnota Hoe some lol media outlets have lled the race for Hutchson, an official wner likely won’t be certified by the Mnota secretary of state’s office until Nov. "She said feared that if anybody found out that she was gay, cludg a former boss who she claimed to be "very homophobic, " then she would be fired or "never achieve rank.

SHE SAYS THE SHERIFF FIRED HER FOR BEG GAY. NOW, SHE'LL BE THE SHERIFF.

"In one alleged cint, McGuffey said that she went to e the rtroom the office and a -worker had vandalized the women's bathroom sign by g permanent marker to draw a circle around the female in and cross out, replacg wh a gay slur wrten across the she ma the admistratn aware of the cint, they lghed about , she said. "McGuffey said that she was not "outed" until she was ced for a nontatn wh police outsi a gay bar Covgton, said that she and a group of iends had watched a llege basketball game, and that when they left around 11 p.

HILLSBOROUGH’S SHERIFF PUBLICIZED A SEX STG. DID TARGET GAY MEN?

”The rabow-wrapped pri patch — the first of s kd for a police partment Orange County — was a bold step what was long a famoly red Orange County — where former Print Reagan said good Republins go to die and where John Wayne cly allud to gay people as “perverted” — homophobia has long been on display. The cy of Costa Ma s ago nied a “gay church” perm to John Rule, who helped start the LGBTQ Center OC, now s 50th year. Bumper stickers wh vlent, homophobic language were sold Huntgton Beach surf shops until the late 1980s.

“Back the early ’80s, was not an easy place to be an openly gay person, ” said Michael Losquadro, a gay man who serv as a rerve litenant the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.

“Maybe there n be some good thgs out of , but I thk ultimately the most vulnerable people the muni — like queer people of lor, and LGBT muni — are the on that don’t necsarily benef om stutns like policg, ” Brooks centuri, laws and police agenci have opprsed the gay muny, raidg gay bars and prohibg cross-drsg. In 1969, thoands marched agast such discrimatn and the police btaly that acpanied New York the Stonewall uprisg, which marked the begng of the morn LGBTQ rights, lbian, gay, bisexual and queer youth and adults are six tim more likely than the general populatn to be stopped by the police, acrdg to data published May by the UCLA Williams Instute.

SAM GAY – THE SAGEBSH SHERIFF

But even gay police officers aren’t always wele among the broar LGBTQ muny. Losquadro, who once looked up the word “gay” a phone book and found the hotle for the Gay and Lbian Communy Servic Center of Orange County — the forenner to the LGBTQ Center — felt pecially shunned durg the 2019 event.

McGuffey, 63, ma headl the primary where she challenged the cumbent, Jim Neil, who fired her om the sheriff’s partment three years sists he termated McGuffey for creatg a hostile work a pendg lawsu agast the partment she will soon lead, McGuffey says she was the one subjected to a toxic matas was bee she spoke out agast excsive force — and bee she is an openly gay and raised Ccnati, McGuffey said she knew she wanted to be a police officer by the time she was 14.

In April 2010, she was brought up on crimal charg stemmg om a nontatn wh police outsi a gay bar Covgton, Kentucky. But, acrdg to a partmental report obtaed by the Ccnati Enquirer, which NBC News has not seen, McGuffey then beme “loud and belligerent, ” cursg and shoutg that the male officers had “problems wh gay women.

MIDWT’S FIRST GAY SHERIFF: DAVE HUTCHSON ELECTED TOP COP MN’S HENNEP COUNTY STUNNG UPSET

“I was always terrified that the sheriff would fd out and I would lose my job, ” she said, allegg that the cisn to disciple her was also fueled by homophobia.

As the first openly gay sheriff the Midwt, Hutchson c his narrow w over Stanek as part of a ph by the unty’s progrsive voters, particularly young voters and people of lor, who want to shake up unty learship. Was the Sheriff’s Office crimalizg gay sex? Crics ask if the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is crimalizg gay sex.

[ Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office]Sheriff’s spokwoman Crystal Clark fend the operatn as way of protectg children and said accatns that the stg was prejudiced agast gay men “are absurd, and que ankly, offensive.

GAY SHERIFF SERIAL SERI

Defense attorney Jam Amarosa, who has reprented several men acced such s, put bluntly: “I believe they’re targetg homosexual men.

To her, appears that the Sheriff’s Office is targetg certa lotns, regardls of who’s havg sex there, rather than gay ncerns her that the operatns were nducted whout any plats om the public. ”• • •It has been more than six s sce Florida’s famo Johns Commtee targeted Black people, munists and gay men a McCarthye asslt on the civil rights movement om 1956-65.

Havg officers go unrver to target cisg — which men pick each other up for sex public — was a major aspect of those anti-gay efforts, cludg those by the Johns and raids targetg the LGBTQ muny cled the late 20th century, Stewart-Wter said — particular, police stopped raidg gay bars the face of public cricism. ”Durg the mid-century heyday of anti-gay policg, Stewart-Wter said, teachers and profsors arrted the stgs were often sgled out for particularly harsh public shamg, due to the myth that gay men pose a particular threat to said Chronister’s foc on the safety of children furthers that false and pernic stereotype. Neher of the parks targeted “Operatn Park Cleanup” has said she saw the sheriff’s language as fuelg prejudice agast gay men.

GAY ARIZ. SHERIFF FENDS OFF NEW ATTACK -- OM SISTER

One of those dividuals who stand apart as somewhat of an stutn for Sam Gay’s history the first quarter of the 20th century was the history of Clark County and the cy of Las Vegas, Nevada.

For years, Gay was the lone peace officer that part of the untry. Sam Gay. Ltle is known about Sam Gay before he me to Las Vegas.

“Sam Gay, puty sheriff and roner, was the only Las Vegas servant of a unty which then was srcely able to pay s officers… The puty felt keenly his rponsibily to the people whom he reprented.