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Contents:

• PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
• BLACK GAY COP ON HBO
• POLICE AT PRI? GAY PS, LGBTQ ACTIVISTS STGGLE TO SEE EYE-TO-EYE
• WHE COPS TACKLE, ARRT BLACK GAY TV REPORTER DURG PRS CONFERENCE
• BLACK GAY UPLE SAYS STORE LLED PS ON THEM FOR BUYG NICE THGS
• COPS BOOT BLACK, GAY LAW PROFSOR OM PUBLIC POOL AFTER KAREN WH, ‘YOU CAN’T TALK OVER MY LANE!’: WATCH
• GAY-THUGS RAPE 3-MEN DURG HOME INVASN: BROOM HANDL AND BATS FOR 9-HOURS! [VIO]
• GAY COP
• GAY POLICE STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• D.C. POLICE ARRT 26 MEN FOR GAY SEX FERAL PARK, LAWYER SAYS IT'S ENTRAPMENT
• TWO BURGLARS SODOMIZED FOR FIVE DAYS STRAIGHT AFTER BREAKG INTO THE HOE OF NOTOR GAY RAPIST
• GAY DETECTIVE COP BOOKS
• MEN LURED TO “HOE OF HORRORS” ON GAY DATG APP “GRDR”

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

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). 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. 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.

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Now an openly gay man, Turawa’s story is a multi-layered one and ss the centre of three pivotal moments recent Brish history, om the black muni’ ristance of opprsive policg, to the ph for LGBTQIA equaly and the aftermath of the wt Ain 'farmg' phenomenon, where whe fai took re of black children outsi the rem of lol thori. 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. When two Black men love each other on screen, shows others what is possible, and shows that you n be who you are and still fd we want to take a look back at some of the Black gay upl that we've seen on TV who have spired viewers and changed media as we know .

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.

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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. 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.

Durg the first season of “The Shield, ” which aired 2002, Danni Sofer (Cathere Dent), the lone female patrol officer her precct, rallied partner Julien Lowe (Michael Jace), who was both black and a closeted gay man, to go knock heads after a police officer was murred, tellg him that “we gotta make sure the a------- know who’s charge.

WHE COPS TACKLE, ARRT BLACK GAY TV REPORTER DURG PRS CONFERENCE

But also suggted that gay men, particularly those who wanted to rise to the executive ranks, might feel pelled to stay closeted when the seri revealed that the abrasive Deputy Commissner William Rawls (John Doman) was gay by showg him fleetgly a gay bar. In “Southland, ” Officer John Cooper (Michael Cudlz), who was divorced om a woman, generally kept his sexual orientatn quiet at work, though toward the end of the seri, he took a homophobic partner to a gay bar to shame him out of makg anti-gay remarks. And while Holt wasn’t origally wrten as black, the rult was a character whose experience as a police officer is fed not only by his gayns but also by his race — one flashback, Holt reported for duty, only for a whe tective to ask whether he was turng himself — and by his class, sce he is married to a Columbia Universy profsor who rents the police force.

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. 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.

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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.

”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? 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.

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”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. “They refe to acknowledge there’s a problem and they refe to do anythg about , ” said Brome, of Vallejo, ’s story is part of a wave of lawsus allegg anti-gay workplace discrimatn filed by gay officers agast law-enforcement partments across the U. ‘I was vastated’Officers who filed lawsus said they worried not jt about their reer, but also their mental and physil homophobic harassment Brome said he first faced the amy ntued at three different San Francis Bay Area partments throughout his reer until 2015, when his doctor advised him to take medil strs leave bee of the discrimatn's toll.

"'Tip of the iceberg'The public is only now learng more about discrimatn agast LGBT police officers part bee of recent legal chang that allow them to e forward and mand jtice, rearchers and activists gay and lbian officers sued their partments the 1980s and '90s, said Colv, who has rearched lbian and gay police.

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Officers n also miss adl for filg plats or ci to put up wh homophobic talk to get along wh enforcement officers who do ci to sue for anti-LGBT discrimatn have legal grounds, said Greg Nevs, senr unsel for Lambda Legal, which advot for LGBT rights. A long history of abe agast LGBT peopleMany law-enforcement agenci have mistreated the LGBT muny, so ’s not entirely surprisg that some officers harass their gay -workers, said Chigo-based police-misnduct attorney Andrea Rchie, the thor of the Amnty Internatnal report “Stonewalled: Police Abe And Misnduct Agast Lbian, Gay, Bisexual And Transgenr People In The U.

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The police raid at New York Cy's Stonewall Inn 1969 was a flash pot, Rchie said, but police targeted LGBT gatherg plac such as bars and bathho as early as the rearchg police misnduct agast LGBT people, Rchie said officers often told her about homophobic and transphobic behavr they or their lleagu experienced wh the partment.

One night and walked to her personal r civilian cloth, she said that officer jumped out om behd a pillar and physilly attacked her, g transphobic and homophobic told a mandg officer about the cint that n now be nsired a hate crime, but Callahan said she did not subm a crime report. Meanwhile, LGBT police associatns, such as the Gay Officers Actn League chapters, n uplift LGBT officers by providg mentorship and recent years, some police partments have set out to hire LGBT police officers and provi LGBT trag to their staffs, some to avoid msy public lawsus or bee they were required by the urts, and some to embrace awarens trag n improve how police treat members of the muny si and outsi agenci, said Greg Miraglia, print of Out to Protect, an anizatn supportg LGBT law enforcement officers.

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?

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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. 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.

It may appear quat now, when we have TV seri like Hulu’s Love, Victor (about a Latx teen explorg sexual fluidy) or Netflix’s Bondg (about sex work and alternative sexualy), but the great gay panic set off by Ellen DeGener g out on her s 1997 was a bombshell that didn’t necsarily nvce the works that they’d open the gat to LGBTQ experienc. Dpe the fact that lns of Amerins wnsed two men raise a happy and healthy dghter om the fort of their livg room sofas, took a fan mpaign to lobby Disney-owned ABC to fally allow Mchell (gay actor Jse Tyler Fergon) and Cameron (straight actor Eric Stontreet) to kiss ( fally happened 2010).

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From the Roy Cohn-flected Army-McCarthy heargs — which was the first time many people heard the word “homosexual” uttered on TV — through the “don’t ask, don’t tell” Neti, that clud The Goln Girls and Digng Women, to our current glter-and-glam era of RuPl’s Drag Race and almost-anythg-go pansexualy. It was Cher-lovg Jack (Sean Hay) and alholic, right-wg sociale Karen (Megan Mullally) as much as Will (Eric McCormack) and Grace (Debra Msg) that enared Amerins to the sassy s, wh l like: “Commandment number one the gay bible: Thou shalt not vet my ex’s ass. In the send season, he manag to evolve beyond simple trop and is given space to explore his queer inty, cludg havg his heart broken by Silv (a self-scribed “Mexin Italian gay vers top otter pup”), fdg a boyiend (of sorts), and even beg rejected by another black man bee of his sk lor — provg that, spe all the talk of “muny, ” ’s never easy to fe lastg bonds.

But there are a lot of other smart stori on LGBTQ subjects, om the technil (a gay virg learns the logistics of anal douchg) to the emotnal (former bt iends don’t work as a uple after both e out) — so many, fact, that ’s a b easier to five when one of the seri’ queer storyl (volvg a homophobic bully) don’t really work. K., who was technilly still an executive producer at the time — but one of the most important them is Tig tryg to fd a gay muny this part of the world where she feels fortable, and the growg csh she’s velopg on her apparently straight rad producer Kate (played by Notaro’s wife, Stephanie Allynne). Holm), hers some of origal-recipe Rob’s most memorable obssns and quirks — among other thgs, Simon is the one who giv the speech about patibily pendg on what you like, not what you are like — even as his story is very different, startg wh the fact that he and the new Rob break up bee he’s gay.

The entire n of this lightful throwback s has queer-iendly ntent, but particularly s first season (still streamg on Netflix, even though the latt season was ma for Pop), which slowly but refully charted the journey of Elena (Isabella Gomez), a Latx teen g to the realizatn that she’s gay, and gradually disverg how to tell her very Catholic fay about . While parts of may not have aged so well, the seri ntaed lots of TV firsts — cludg the first legally wed gay uple, first gay adoptn, and HIV-posive/negative uple — wh -stars Hal Sparks, Peter Paige, and Stt Lowell explorg what meant to have relatnships and stggle for acceptance. "Sargeant Delgado was unable to nfirm whether the arrts were at the hands of uniformed or placloth Washgton Post scrib Meridian Hill Park as a "gatherg place for all of the District's disparate trib: black and whe, rich and poor, young and old, immigrant and lol, gay and straight, borg and bizarre.

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But engagg gay behavr public (holdg hands, kissg or dancg wh someone of the same sex) was still illegal, so police harassment of gay bars ntued and many bars still operated whout liquor licens— part bee they were owned by the Rights Before StonewallThe first documented U. When The Commissn on Human Rights led that gay dividuals had the right to be served bars, police raids were temporarily Stonewall Inn The crime syndite saw prof terg to shunned gay clientele, and by the mid-1960s, the Genove crime fay ntrolled most Greenwich Village gay bars. And was one of the few—if not the only—gay bar left that allowed were still a fact of life, but ually rpt ps would tip off Mafia-n bars before they occurred, allowg owners to stash the alhol (sold whout a liquor license) and hi other illegal activi.

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Stonewall's LegacyThough the Stonewall uprisg didn’t start the gay rights movement, was a galvanizg force for LGBT polil activism, leadg to numero gay rights anizatns, cludg the Gay Liberatn Front, Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD (formerly Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn), and PFLAG (formerly Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays) the one-year anniversary of the rts on June 28, 1970, thoands of people marched the streets of Manhattan om the Stonewall Inn to Central Park what was then lled “Christopher Street Liberatn Day, ” Ameri’s first gay pri para. ”In 2016, then-Print Barack Obama signated the se of the rts—Stonewall Inn, Christopher Park, and the surroundg streets and siwalks—a natnal monument regnn of the area’s ntributn to gay Gallery The Stonewall Inn is a bar loted New York Cy’s Greenwich Village that served as a haven the 1960s for the cy’s gay, lbian and transgenr muny.

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