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Contents:

• LESBIAN AND GAY POLICE ASSOCIATION – GAY OFFICERS ACTION LEAGUE
• CHICAGO POLICE SHOULDER PATCH: GAY PRI
• US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• CHIGO PRI PARA 2022: MAP, TRANSPORTATN TAILS AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS CHIGO
• POLICE AT PRI? GAY PS, LGBTQ ACTIVISTS STGGLE TO SEE EYE-TO-EYE
• GAY PRI POLICE R IS SET TO BUT THIS WEEKEND
• SHOCKG VIO SHOWS R PLOW TO CROWD OF PEOPLE OUTSI CHIGO GAY BAR

LESBIAN AND GAY POLICE ASSOCIATION – GAY OFFICERS ACTION LEAGUE

”While the ban was welg news to many LGBTQ activists — who for long have highlighted the historic discrimatn LGBTQ people have faced the hands of law enforcement — also prompted an angry rponse by the Gay Officers Actn League, a group that reprents officers om the NYPD and other law enforcement Miller, the NYPD’s puty missner for public rmatn, said that cisn was “hurtful and disappotg.

I mean, this room be packed wh people, and everyone is jt exced to grab ffee, and walk around and be a part of , " Gil, many LGBTQ+ lears and bs owners are ncerned about anti-gay and anti-trans threats across the untry, even though police said there are no known threats Chigo for para day. "Pri Month tak place annually June and is meant to pay homage to the 1969 Stonewall uprisg which helped spark the morn gay rights vehicle is jt one aspect of the Village of Ridgewood's celebratn of Pri READ | Danielle Savre of 'Statn 19' donat eggs to surrogate to help gay bt iends start fayThe ciser will be on display at Saturday's Pri Celebratn, which will be held Van Nte Square, startg at 2 p. Comments on that Instagram post reeked of homophobia, as you might expect, wh people sayg the Pri-themed police r was “too much” or “a waste of taxpayers’ money.

But on Redd’s r/lgbt fom, a photo of the r sparked a different backlash, nsirg the “Don’t Say Gay” law Florida jt passed. A third person wrote, “Short-circu the state’s legislature when you ll a ‘don’t say gay’ alert on the police. Related: Police chief spend after lkg gay p’s COVID-19 ath to his sexualy.

CHICAGO POLICE SHOULDER PATCH: GAY PRI

The Lbian and Gay Police Associatn–Gay Officers Actn League (LGPA–GOAL) was found 1991 by four Chigo Police Officers: Mary Boyle, Dorothy Knudson, Sue Sasso, and Karen Conway, who felt that was time that lbian and gay police personnel had an anizatn of their own.

Known those days as the “Lbian and Gay Police Associatn” (LGPA), the group’s origal purpose was to provi support for gay and lbian police officers, who were mostly closeted at the time. Among s many achievements, the LGPA—as was known between s foundg and 2005—sought and won the right to wear the Chigo Police Department (CPD) uniform annual Pri Paras; earned the right to post LGBT related notic the police bullet; fought agast ter-partmental discrimatn toward LGBT officers; earned the support of the Fraternal Orr of Police (FOP) Lodge for their sponsorship of the Pri Para float; worked wh the FOP and Cy attorneys to clu sexual orientatn a CPD ntract non-discrimatn clse; participated heargs on domtic partner benefs before the Chigo Cy Council; and supported the effort to brg the 2006 Gay Gam to Chigo.

The Gay Officers Actn League (GOAL) was brought to Illois om New York 1995. In 2005, the origal LGPA merged wh GOAL; sce then the bed anizatn has been known as the Lbian and Gay Police Associatn–Gay Officers Actn League.

US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT

Sce the merger, addn to assistg the ordatn and sign of LGBT Trag Vios orr to te and ensure that CPD members are sensive to the cy’s LGBT muni and LGBT officers’ ncerns, the group has, among other thgs: supported and promoted the 2008 Osr-wng short documentary film “Freeheld;” worked wh the 2006 Gay Gam and provid volunteer secury officers for the event; provid meetgs, social events, and fundraisers for s members, cludg the annual Halsted Market Days booth and Pri Para float, where members participate wearg partment uniforms; worked on acquirg pensn plans for same-sex partners and spo; promoted and sponsored numero chary events supportg fellow officers; and supported LGPA–GOAL members agast unjt or discrimatory actns enuntered wh the workplace or elsewhere.

LGPA–GOAL is th extremely well-tablished and highly regard as an important muny anizatn and rource, and is th more than worthy of ductn to the Chigo Gay and Lbian Hall of Fame. This is a fantasy patch signed by Chigo Cop Shop for the Chigo Police Department to support the LGBTQ+ Communy and Gay Pri awarens. Tags: Chigo Corporate Seal, Chigo Police, Chigo Police Department, Cy of Chigo, CPD, Gay Pri, LGBTQ, Love Peace Pri, Patch, PO, Police Officer, Rabow, Rabow Flag, Shoulr Patch.

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THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

Though we now expect this month to be full of paras and rabow flags, Pri was first created to memorate the Stonewall rts of New York Cy, the 1969 uprisg rponse to transphobic and homophobic police raids on the mafia-n Greenwich Village gay bar, the Stonewall though no one died at Stonewall, the wanton btaly by the police igned a natnal, now-global fight for LGBTQ+ equaly.

In November 2013, off-duty officer Thomas Walsh asslted a Black man and ed racist slurs at the Lucky Horshoe gay bar like to say that Pri is all about cludg everyone, that everyone is wele. Image source, North Country Off Grid/Youtube/via RtersImage ptn, Photos shared on social at the time allegedly showed dozens of the hate group's members beg arrted near the pri eventFive members of a whe supremacist hate group nvicted of plottg to rt at a gay pri event will spend three days jail, a urt has men and dozens other members of the Patrt Front group were arrted last June after a rint spotted them wh masks and shields gettg to a were lled and found rt gear and a smoke grena the lorry was stopped near where the North Idaho Pri Alliance was holdg an event the cy of Cor d'Alene.

CHIGO PRI PARA 2022: MAP, TRANSPORTATN TAILS AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS CHIGO

That was the moment he me out to the world as a gay man a Chigo Tribune article. Bogan holds the distctn of beg the first out gay police man Chigo.

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

Bogan said he knew he was gay when he was a ltle boy and so did his great grandmother but, like many fai at the time, was not talked about, jt unrstood.

GAY PRI POLICE R IS SET TO BUT THIS WEEKEND

"One of the reasons why I was reced to the Civil Rights Divisns was so I uld help rec other gay and lbian people to the police force. I end up on the an's list, was the first sophomore ever picked to be an rint assistant and was the print of our aterny—Phi Beta Sigma.

"At Horizon's, I was the gay youth advisor and one of the kids whom I mentored eventually beme a police officer, " said Bogan. “I was pecially happy that my partment was celebratg, given the history of the LGBTQ muny’s teractns wh law enforcement, ” he said, referrg to the police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a New York Cy gay bar, 1969. That event, which galvanized the LGBTQ muny to monstrate not only agast abive police tactics, but to fight discrimatn employment and other areas of life, was the talyst for the Gay Pri movement.

SHOCKG VIO SHOWS R PLOW TO CROWD OF PEOPLE OUTSI CHIGO GAY BAR

" The para at a time when many feel LGBTQ+ rights are unr attack all around the untry – om a law passed last year Florida dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill, to laws that whhold genr-affirmg re to transgenr youth, or take aim at drag shows.

"At Sitrack, we say gay. Pri Month’s origs stem om the Stonewall Rts New York’s Greenwich Village, when a police raid on a New York gay bar June 1969 triggered a rebelln that beme a two-day rt, he said. It was a key event the fight for gay rights this se beg the police partment’s liaison to the LGBTQ muny is a way to try to right the wrongs of the past, Hooker said.

“(The weddg photos are) somethg I know has ed a lot of back and forth om people on Facebook, ” Hooker asked why the police partment was volved Pri Month or havg a squad be pictured photos of a gay weddg, he negative ments me om some the LGBTQ muny, who cricized the police for victimizg people years before bee of their sexual orientatn. Not sce 2019 has Chigo seen a full-fledged Pri celebratn, as the panmic shelved the cy’s massive para and other ftivi that draw hundreds of thoands to the North wh the 2022 versn back on, the event is brgg wh h ncerns, namely secury fears surroundg anti-LGBTQ sentiment and havg such a large crowd a cy that has recently stggled to keep big gathergs 31 Patrt Front members were arrted near an Idaho gay pri event June 11, ncerns rippled across the untry ahead of other celebratns this month.