Sergeant Harry Daley: ‘Honour Met’s first gay policeman wh blue plaque’ | Eveng Standard

Contents:

• SERGEANT HARRY DALEY: ‘HONOUR MET’S FIRST GAY POLICEMAN WH BLUE PLAQUE,’ SAY MPAIGNERS
• GAY POLICEMAN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• THE ERA WHEN GAY SPI WERE FEARED
• AS A GAY OFFICER I SAW HOW HOMOPHOBIC THE POLICE ARE
• COP DRAMA PRAISED FOR FEATURG GAY CHARACTERS AXED BY BBC
• FLEABAG STAR BEN ALDRIDGE TO PLAY GAY TECTIVE WH DADDY ISSU MAJOR NEW ITV THRILLER
• FIRST GAY POLICE CHIEF LLS FOR MORE ‘VISIBLE ROLE MOLS’ TO ATTRACT DIVERSE RECS
• THE LONG CALL VIEWERS APPLD ITV DRAMA FOR GAY TECTIVE LEAD ROLE: ‘THIS REPRENTATN IS IMPORTANT’
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• MOSW GAY PRI – ARRTS & VLENCE
• YOU MAY NOW CALL A POLICE HORSE ‘GAY’ THE U.K.

SERGEANT HARRY DALEY: ‘HONOUR MET’S FIRST GAY POLICEMAN WH BLUE PLAQUE,’ SAY MPAIGNERS

Campaigners want Bra’s first openly gay policeman to be honoured after beg told he was “not famo enough” for a historic blue plaque.

Sergeant Harry Daley, said to be spiratn for TV seri Dixon of Dock Green, was “wildly discreet” even though homosexualy was illegal at the joed the Metropolan Police 1925 and worked Hammersmh, Wtmster and Wandsworth for 25 Daley was the lover of celebrated thor E. Colleagu ma a distctn between his sexualy and men they harassed and arrted for Daley died 1971 the former fay home Dorkg he shared his brother David, who was also gay, and David’s long-term partner John.

Sergeant Harry Daley pated by Dunn Grant 1930 / Dunn Grant Sgt Daley’s name nnot be re-nomated until 2027, when another panel would reasss his Stephen Bourne’s 2017 book Fightg Proud: The Untold Story Of The Gay Men Who Served In Two World Wars featur a chapter on Sgt has gaed renew promence durg LGBTQ+ History month and programm like Channel 4’s acclaimed drama It’s A S about the Aids Bourne said: “Harry Daley was greatly loved the muni he served.

GAY POLICEMAN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

“In the days when gay officers had to nceal their sexualy, Harry was an exceptn. There has always been an tert gay history but now wh It’s A S, we’ve gone mastream. His fisherman father died at sea 1911 and olr brother Joseph was killed actn jt a few days before the end of World War wasn’t until 1967, that male homosexualy was crimalised.

THE ERA WHEN GAY SPI WERE FEARED

“From one gay skipper to another, I salute you Harry. “Whilst Harry Daley was the first openly gay officer to serve the Met that we are currently aware of, his historil profile and signifince was not strong enough to persua the panel on this ocsn. Image source, Getty ImagMI5 has been named the UK's most gay-iendly employer - but isn't long sce same-sex relatnships were nsired a threat to natnal secury.

"How to spot a possible homo, " ran a headle the paper.

AS A GAY OFFICER I SAW HOW HOMOPHOBIC THE POLICE ARE

Below this, for MI5's benef, was a list of supposed signifiers of male homosexualy ("a gay ltle wiggle", "his tie has the latt knot", "an unnaturally strong affectn for his mother") pretext for this unsoliced advice - which now seems clearly offensive - was the se of John Vassall, a gay civil servant who spied for the Soviets unr threat of blackmail.

A gay man, the paper's reporter said, was a facto secury risk: "I wouldn't tst him wh my secrets. "Fast forward 53 years and the service tops Stonewall's 2016 list of the 400 bt plac to work for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people.

Acrdg to the Tim, more than 80 of s employe belong to an LGBT staff source, Eveng StandardImage ptn, Brish civil servant and Soviet spy John Vassall shortly after his release om prison 1972And yet a ban on gay men and women servg MI5, MI6 or GCHQ was force as recently as 1991. A seri of Cold War sndals featurg gay men meant homosexualy was lked many people's mds wh pnage and betrayal.

COP DRAMA PRAISED FOR FEATURG GAY CHARACTERS AXED BY BBC

As well as Vassall, who was ught a honeytrap by the KGB, at least two of the Cambridge Five spy rg, Guy Burgs and Anthony Blunt, were gay, while a third, Donald MacLean, was bisexual.

There was also Daily Telegraph Mosw rrponnt Jeremy Wolfenn - son of John Wolfenn, who chaired the missn that remend the legalisatn of male homosexual acts - who was photographed by the KGB havg sex wh a man, and whom MI6 subsequently attempted to e as a double agent.

FLEABAG STAR BEN ALDRIDGE TO PLAY GAY TECTIVE WH DADDY ISSU MAJOR NEW ITV THRILLER

He turned to heavy drkg and died 1965 age ptn, Alan Bat played spy Guy Burgs Alan Bent's An Englishman AbroadIn the Uned Stat, Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-munist mpaign targeted sr of gay officials, explicly lkg homosexualy wh subversn and Soviet sympathi, a procs known as the "lavenr sre". FBI chief J Edgar Hoover - himself wily believed to have been gay - ed the agency to target dozens of gay ernment was a perd which LGBT people risked losg their reers and their eedom if their sexualy was revealed.

In 1953 Print Eisenhower signed Executive Orr 10450, which effectively led that gay people were secury risks. Homosexual acts between men were illegal Great Bra until 1967. "This associatn between homosexualy and secrecy, furtivens and potential treachery ensured gay characters were a recurrg trope Cold War-era spy fictn.

John Le Carre's The Spy Who Came In From The Cold and Tker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy clu gay subtexts - ma even more explic the 2011 movie adaptatn of the latter. Image source, Getty ImagSome have ma the se that the Brish telligence servic appear to have been relatively acceptg of homosexualy, if only pared wh other parts of society that monly persecuted LGBT people. Burgs's gay affairs were wily known telligence circl.

FIRST GAY POLICE CHIEF LLS FOR MORE ‘VISIBLE ROLE MOLS’ TO ATTRACT DIVERSE RECS

Acrdg to Christopher Andrew's thorised history of MI5, gay men and women were 1951 judged by the service when vettg public servants to be "maladjted to the social environment", potentially "of unstable character" and vulnerable to blackmail. However, Andrew says MI5 was "relatively unncerned" about gay civil servants so long as they "remaed discreet".

THE LONG CALL VIEWERS APPLD ITV DRAMA FOR GAY TECTIVE LEAD ROLE: ‘THIS REPRENTATN IS IMPORTANT’

In 1965 MI5 risted a view om the Treasury that homosexualy should be an absolute bar to any kd of public office that required posive ptn, Jim Broadbent and Ben Whishaw BBC drama London SpyThe legalisatn of male homosexualy 1967 meant the fear of blackmail uld no longer hold. In 2001, when I joed the police, homophobia was rife.

And when I me out to my senr officer, he told me he uldn’t ndone what I did “as a homosexual”.

In a secret document my chief supertennt wrote that he had nsired movg me bee of “ncerns over victimisatn rultg om PC Maxwell’s sexual orientatn” many straight ps, beg gay was seen as unnatural. I moved statns and ntued to police other gay men unr outdated laws, wh me and my lleagu often lookg for gay men on the nal towpath we uld punish for sex acts. Senrs officers directed to do this bee, they said, the men were g a public when I thk about the se of Stephen Port – who was last week nvicted of murrg four young gay men, whose killgs tectiv failed to lk spe obv clu – the notn of stutnalised homophobia is at the foreont of my md.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

A uple of years after I joed the force the Labour ernment repealed outdated homophobic laws on gross cency and buggery. At this stage, homophobia the police went unrground, and the gay muny unrstandably beme placent.

However, though people knew they uld no longer outwardly e homophobic language the workplace, they found other ways to exprs their disda and prejudice. I recently received a msage om a gay officer who told me he was sufferg homophobia wh Stland Yard. After givg him advice, I then saw him publicly praise the force for s gay tolerance.

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

Photograph: Metropolan Police/PAI beme unwell wh prsn bee of homophobia and racism the police. An appeal judge upheld my this month a gay man, David Cary, won pensatn om the Met after a ne-year battle over s failure to vtigate homophobic abe claims agast him. In rponse to this, cg my own se agast the force, the Met said: “The way the anisatn als wh homophobic crime and our ternal practic and polici have changed dramatilly sce 2013.

The system, riddled wh stutnal homophobia as is, needs to be alt I challenged homophobia the Met, not a sgle gay officer or LGBT anisatn stood alongsi me. Afterwards, I watched as the police missner mgled wh gay celebri and chari at an awards ceremony. A picture of clivens was prented, to refute the notn that the force was homophobic.

MOSW GAY PRI – ARRTS & VLENCE

The seri was praised for featurg two gay police officers ma rol and for s lack of sensatnalism when me to the character’s discsg their sexualy. Fellow st member Matsurra – who played a lbian police officer the show – posted a GIF showg another gay character, Jake, played by Jab Ifan.

The Director-General of the BBC yterday fend the nomatn of anti-gay boxer Tyson Fury for the broadster’s Sports Personaly of the Year award.

Heavyweight boxg champ Fury is up for the ‘personaly’ award on Sunday – spe claimg that homosexualy and paedophilia will brg about the apolypse. A new ITV crime drama, The Long Call, will be the first to feature a gay, male tective as s lead. Then there’s the hugely popular TV seri, Killg Eve, which saw s leads, Eve (Sandra Oh) and Villanelle (Jodie Comer) adm to romantic feelgs and share a kiss the season three fale, after prevly garnerg accatns of queerbag ntrast, gay male tectiv have been largely absent om Brish televisn, makg Aldridge’s upg performance a signifint step.

YOU MAY NOW CALL A POLICE HORSE ‘GAY’ THE U.K.

“As [ was] the UK’s first male gay tective on primetime I was rolute that we should st a gay actor, ” said seri director Lee Haven Jon on his move to st Aldridge.

Watch: ITV News Meridian’s K Bradshaw jos senr officer Adrian Hanstock on his fal patrol before retirement to discs diversy the police service The first openly gay chief nstable has lled for more "visible role mols" policg to help addrs the "ongog challenge" of attractg recs om diverse backgrounds. “It was a risk, back the mid-80s, anybody who was different – my se beg gay – was jt never somethg that matched policg, ” Mr Hanstock said.