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Contents:
- RABOW FLAG PATCH, GAY PRI (LGBT) PATCH
- GAY PRI RABOW COLORS PATCH
- GAY BASEBALL PRO BRYAN RUBY ADDRS RAYS PLAYERS’ REFAL TO WEAR PRI PATCH
RABOW FLAG PATCH, GAY PRI (LGBT) PATCH
”The rabow-wrapped pri patch — the first of s kd for a police partment Orange County — was a bold step what was long a famoly red Orange County — where former Print Reagan said good Republins go to die and where John Wayne cly allud to gay people as “perverted” — homophobia has long been on display. The cy of Costa Ma s ago nied a “gay church” perm to John Rule, who helped start the LGBTQ Center OC, now s 50th year. Bumper stickers wh vlent, homophobic language were sold Huntgton Beach surf shops until the late 1980s.
“Back the early ’80s, was not an easy place to be an openly gay person, ” said Michael Losquadro, a gay man who serv as a rerve litenant the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. “Maybe there n be some good thgs out of , but I thk ultimately the most vulnerable people the muni — like queer people of lor, and LGBT muni — are the on that don’t necsarily benef om stutns like policg, ” Brooks centuri, laws and police agenci have opprsed the gay muny, raidg gay bars and prohibg cross-drsg. In 1969, thoands marched agast such discrimatn and the police btaly that acpanied New York the Stonewall uprisg, which marked the begng of the morn LGBTQ rights, lbian, gay, bisexual and queer youth and adults are six tim more likely than the general populatn to be stopped by the police, acrdg to data published May by the UCLA Williams Instute.
But even gay police officers aren’t always wele among the broar LGBTQ muny.
GAY PRI RABOW COLORS PATCH
Losquadro, who once looked up the word “gay” a phone book and found the hotle for the Gay and Lbian Communy Servic Center of Orange County — the forenner to the LGBTQ Center — felt pecially shunned durg the 2019 event. The lours reflect the diversy of the lbian and gay muny. LaBarge believ givg players the choice to opt out "beme a distractn this year, " bee "took attentn away om what gay pri is, or jt pri general, and refoced thgs on the team.
Instead, FIFA will allow players to choose om one of eight armbands whose them don’t mentn lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer or nonbary rights:. An openly gay profsnal baseball player is speakg out followg the cisn ma by a number of Tampa Bay Rays players not to wear rabow-lored logos on their uniforms for “Pri Night” support of the LGBTQ+ muny. Bryan Ruby, an athlete and mician who me out publicly as gay last year, recently told USA Today that the behavr exhibed “sends a very clear msage” that “LGBTQ people are not wele here.
GAY BASEBALL PRO BRYAN RUBY ADDRS RAYS PLAYERS’ REFAL TO WEAR PRI PATCH
“A lot of guys jt don’t get that they’ve always had, and will ntue to have, gay teammat. It’s hard enough to be gay baseball, ” Ruby said.
"Reynolds grew up Mormon, and he's long been open about his journey to rencile the church's anti-gay doctre wh his own support for gay rights.