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• 8 593 GAY POLICE BANQUE PHOTOS ET IMAG HTE RéSOLUTN
• GAY POLICEMAN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• GAY POLICE STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• GAY P STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• POLICE AT PRI? GAY PS, LGBTQ ACTIVISTS STGGLE TO SEE EYE-TO-EYE
• GAY POLICE OFFICERS STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• GAY POLICEMEN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• GAY COP
• THE HANDSOME UNRVER P S. IS HE ENTRAPPG GAY MEN OR CLEANG UP A PARK?
• “A GAY OFFICER CGHT BETWEEN TWO WORLDS”
• THE FOTTEN HISTORY OF GAY ENTRAPMENT
• BEFORE STONEWALL, NEWSPAPERS PLIC WH POLICE GAY BAR RAIDS

8 593 GAY POLICE BANQUE PHOTOS ET IMAG HTE RéSOLUTN

A New Year’s police raid on the Black Cat, a gay bay the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angel, rulted the beatgs of more than a dozen people; two men were arrted for the crime of kissg and a bartenr suffered a ptured spleen. California lawmakers 1976 passed a nsentg adults law part to stop persecutn of gays through bathhoe raids, but that didn’t stop San Francis ps om raidg Liberty Baths an apparent tt of that law, acrdg to A History of Bathho. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office nducted jot raids of Florida gay bars Club 21 and Copa on May 3, 1991, and the cints would play a role Sheriff Nick Navarro eventually losg reelectn, ironilly after nductg such raids an apparent publicy stunt.

Durg what AIDS activist Wan Yahai suggted was a crackdown on gays Beijg, the Dtatn got closed March 9, 2008, by police supposedly for playg mic too loud and hostg too large a crowd, acrdg to an article the Shangaiist.

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Police apparently regularly me to mand the IDs of guts, then end up arrtg Mlims to charge them not wh any homosexualy-related crime but wh the illegal nsumptn of alhol, a vlatn of Sharia law largely unenforced straight nightclubs. 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.

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”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.

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.

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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?

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

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. ”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.

“I thk people are surprised to learn that wrongful nvictn happens as a rult of homophobia and prejudice agast the LGBTQ muny, pecially this time where thgs have been changg and improvg more generally, ” Anna Vasquez told the Innocence Project. “And was really Javier who led this accatn agast bee he didn’t like that Liz was gay and had rejected him —  was a shot to his ego — but you would thk law enforcement or expert wns would try to fd the tth, but they also had the opns and bias. “Whether you’re lbian or gay or transgenr, stead of approachg like lbians have bigger problems or gay people have worse problems or trans people have bigger problems, we need to ph forward together bee equaly is what we want, ” she said.

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SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of data.The stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola. “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. 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.

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.

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But the unrver operatn, which was sharply cricized recently by a judge, also exemplifi a ntroversial, age-old police tactic that many of California’s largt law enforcement agenci have quietly abandoned recent years amid mountg cricism and changg sexual the most-read stori this hour >>In Los Angel, Long Beach and other areas where unrver lewd nduct stgs endure, police fend them as an important tool for tchg people who are vlatg the law and for terrg others om tryg to have sex parks and other public areas ed by fai and activists do not ndone public sex but have long nmned the bts as a form of entrapment, sayg they unfairly sgle out gay men, wh sometim vastatg nsequenc.

“Nobody is gog to fend lewd nduct, but there is a qualative difference between sexual predators and people who engage boorish behavr, ” said Los Angel County Asssor Jefey Prang, who is gay and a former special assistant the Sheriff’s Department who worked wh s LGBT advisory uncil. Last month, a Los Angel County judge threw out the charg one se stemmg om Long Beach’s 2014 operatn, sayg police were discrimatg agast gay law enforcement agenci have stopped rponse to lawsus or after polil backlash.

“You still have to enforce the law when you get plats, ” he e of unrver ps to target gay men Southern California stretch back to the early 20th century, when gay sex was illegal, said Lillian Farman, a historian and thor of “Gay L. Brown, “vice specialists” who loered public rtrooms and other areas while rryg out so-lled “pury mpaigns” aimed at gay men Long Beach and Los Angel, Farman wrote, addg that their methods served as a mol for stgs throughout Southern pair had no prr police trag but were given police badg both ci.

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” Many, he said, had low self-teem and turned to cisg bee they thought they were unservg of the LGBT movement, said Duran, who is gay, “has produced new generatns of out and proud people who believe they n have healthy sexual enunters. ” Growg public support of gay rights and the prence of openly gay officers police partments has put prsure on agenci to stop g stgs, he y operatns have drawn fierce Sprgs police sparked outrage 2009 when officers arrted 19 men an unrver stg a neighborhood known for gay rorts.

Pl Ford, supervisor of the agency’s tective Long Beach, gay-rights activists said they were troubled — and surprised — to see stgs still beg ployed a cy wh a vibrant LGBT muny and an openly gay Beach police took more than two dozen men to ctody durg y operatns om 2012 to 2014, acrdg to Bce Nickerson, a civil rights of those men was Rory Moroney, who was arrted the Recreatn Park stg the day he was arrted, Moroney said he was g his laptop the park to search for jobs.

THE HANDSOME UNRVER P S. IS HE ENTRAPPG GAY MEN OR CLEANG UP A PARK?

”ALSOLong Beach’s sad history of targetg gay men for arrtHow gay men Long Beach were targeted by police and mocked by The Tim a century agoJudge slams gay sex stgs by Long Beach police, llg them discrimatoryhailey.

Philly, the first LGBT liaison for the sheriff’s office Philalphia, and the only openly gay sheriff Philalphia, who go above and beyond the ll of duty to ensure trag is beg done to make better for the LGBT muny Philalphia wh their teractns wh Law Enforcement. I’ve never agreed wh the ncept of g out, I always said well if straight people don’t have to e out and say hey I’m straight why do I need to e out and say hey I’m gay… why n’t I live my life as eely as my straight unterparts.

“A GAY OFFICER CGHT BETWEEN TWO WORLDS”

“We now have transgenr police officers that want to live out and openly as transgenr police officers, and they have brought their unique experience on this job, ” said Detective Brian Downey, the print of the Gay Officers Actn League, or GOAL. So at this pot you’re probably wonrg where I am gog wh this and how do this relate to the liv and culture of LGBT police officers… Well, ’s no secret that many police partments end up unr scty for issu regardg discrimatn, homophobia, racism, and sexism. After high school, he enlisted the Army as a woman, but that was the era of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, ” a policy that allowed gay and lbian soldiers to serve, but not openly, and he said he was discharged after almost a year bee of his sexual orientatn.

As a p many non LGBT officers I work wh didn’t see an issue wh the rponse Orlando, so as puttg my reer to the si, as a member of the LGBT muny mak you wonr would the rponse of been different had this of not been a gay bar. The ial backlash the police officers received durg pri was hurtful to many bee sentially, ’s as if you get put out om one muny bee your gay and then you basilly get put out of the LGBT muny bee you a police officer. The Fotten History of Gay EntrapmentRoute arrts were the lchp of a social system tend to huiate LGBTQ JonEdor’s Note: This article is part of a seri about the gay-rights movement and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Payne, a mic stunt and aspirg performer om Trenton, New Jersey, got his big break near the end of 1947, when he was 23.

THE FOTTEN HISTORY OF GAY ENTRAPMENT

But the bure’s regulatns prohibed the employment of anyone who “was or pretend to be a homosexual, ” an expansive le signed to prevent queer-themed entertament, cludg the so-lled pansy acts that had been all the rage New York clubs near the end of Prohibn, as well as homosexual entertaers themselv. Between 1923, when the New York state legislature specifilly crimalized male homosexual cisg as a form of disorrly nduct (“generate disorrly nduct, ” or simply, police lgo, “generacy”), and 1966, when a loose aln of pre-Stonewall gay activists, civil libertarians, fé owners, and bohemian wrers persuad newly elected Mayor John Ldsay to end the police partment’s e of entrapment to arrt men on this charge, more than 50, 000 men were arrted for cisg bars, streets, parks, and subway washrooms New York Cy the e of entrapment was one of the signal victori of New York’s ant pre-Stonewall gay activists. The tens of thoands of New Yorkers who were arrted for cisg the 45 years before Stonewall have been even more thoroughly fotten than the movement that fought on their the 1940s and 1950s, police surveillance was only the lchp of a broar social system that punished people who were disvered to be gay.

Above all, the men feared that their fai or their employers would learn they were gay if word of their arrt reached them, as sometim happened when the police or urt officials ntacted them or, more rarely, a newspaper published the man’s name.

BEFORE STONEWALL, NEWSPAPERS PLIC WH POLICE GAY BAR RAIDS

But employers were much more likely to dismiss men and women they disvered to be gay, and begng the 1920s and 1930s, state ernments New York and elsewhere ma queer life more and more 1927, the New York state legislature prohibed theaters om stagg plays wh queer characters, and the 1930s, the Hollywood studs adopted a censorship that prohibed the appearance of lbian or gay characters or even the “ference of sexual perversn” s films. Durg the Send World War, the feral ernment followed su by prohibg homosexuals as a class om servg the ary, and after the war, extend that ban to civilian feral re prciple that erned such l was to exclu people who were openly gay om many workplac and the urban public sphere of bars and rtrants, and to prevent them om even beg reprented or discsed plays, films, and baret performanc.

The pot was not jt to nmn, huiate, and disurage people who were queer, but also to renr homosexualy visible and therefore, the thori hoped, filmmakers, playwrights, and bar and baret owners who dissented om such heteronormative impuls were forced to ply. Absent such five evince intifyg patrons as gay, police reports routely ced ctomers’ mp w and other forms of genr nonnformy: women wh short hair stridg through a bar men’s cloth; makp-wearg men sashayg about and llg one another “Mary. ”At a moment when the State Liquor Authory was unr prsure to crack down on gay meetg plac, this was enough evince for to revoke the club’s license and permanently close for “perm[tg] homosexuals to ngregate” and “perm[tg] a performance by a homosexual.