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Contents:

• VIO RURFAC OF KG VON TELLG POLICE HE'S "GAY" TO RELOTE IN JAIL
• PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
• GAY POLICEMAN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
• THE COPS STANDG WH, AND FOR, THE GAY COMMUNI THEY SERVE

VIO RURFAC OF KG VON TELLG POLICE HE'S "GAY" TO RELOTE IN JAIL

In the rerdg leaked earlier this week, the Chigo rapper appears to claim he’s gay to law enforcement officers an effort to secure a cell transfer while servg time jail. They got a problem wh gay people.

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

“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. “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.

GAY POLICEMAN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

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. 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.

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Behalf of all the members of the Gay Officers Actn League of New York, we thank everyone who has reached out over the last few Members and Friends, Sce Herage of Pri announced s cisn to ban GOAL om participatg Pri, we've been Journey 35 Years of GOALThe New York Cy Police Department (NYPD) has e a long way and we are proud to be a part of the posive chang. That tersectn is as old as the morn fight for LGTBQ rights, and perhaps no moment illtrat that as well as the movement’s most famo turng pot: the 1969 Stonewall Rts, the uprisg sparked by a police raid at a gay bar New York Cy’s Greenwich Village neighborhood, and the tone to which Pri Month is pegged. As they are today, members of the LGBTQ muny were disproportnately targeted by police durg the 1950s and 1960s, “the most homophobic perd Amerin history, ” says historian Hugh Ryan, thor of When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History.

US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT

Donut shop that was a popular meetg place for transgenr and gay people, was the se of an uprisg agast the ntuo police harassment that the shop’s patrons endured. Trans women of lor played a key role the Augt 1966 Compton Cafeteria Rts San Francis, and a police raid on the Black Cat tavern Los Angel on New Years’ Day 1967 rulted anized public protts agast police harassment of gay, trans and genr non-nformg people.

For historian Ryan, the Haven Rt 1970, which took place at the Haven gay bar Greenwich Village, was also a landmark event and monstrat that there was a nsistency to the ancy beyond the sgular moment of Stonewall. Oral histori reuntg the nights of Stonewall suggt that the women the prison chanted “Gay Power! The fact that several members of the Black Panther Party, cludg Angela Davis, Afeni Shakur and Joan Bird, had also spent time the prison speaks to the shared nnectns a broar stggle, Ryan says, as lks emerged between the Black Panther Party, the Gay Liberatn Front, radil lbians and the femist and women’s movements.

It was after she saw the prison how the opprsn of gay people was nnected to the opprsn of mori that Afeni Shakur went on to anize a meetg between the Black Panther Party and the Gay Liberatn Front at Jane Fonda’s penthoe apartment on the Upper East si 1970. 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.

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

Gay police officers straddle two worlds: Outsi the force, they are sometim viewed wh spicn by their own kd. 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 fact, the gay rights movement was born out of a rt agast the police.

In 1969, New York Cy officers raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay club Greenwich Village, sparkg vlent protts and clash that lasted six days. And back then, as now, the stggle between beg both a p and a gay activist wasn’t easily renciled.

“I’m very proud of beg a New York Cy policeman, and I’m equally proud of beg gay, ” he said to a stunned dience. “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.