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- GAY MAN WS DISMISSAL OF 1995 CENCY SE STEMMG OM LYNNWOOD POLICE STG
- SHERIFF ARRTED FOR INCENT EXPOSURE AT GAY CISG AREA
GAY MAN WS DISMISSAL OF 1995 CENCY SE STEMMG OM LYNNWOOD POLICE STG
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SHERIFF ARRTED FOR INCENT EXPOSURE AT GAY CISG AREA
”“The ernment n certaly outlaw public sex, but mt take re to enforce such bans wh nstutnal lims, ” said Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern, a gay journalist who has wrten on gay sex stgs the past. “When law enforcement officers target gay men for no apparent reason other than their sexual orientatn, they n the risk of nng afoul of basic equal protectn prcipl.
”Stern poted to a prev se Long Beach, Calif., where a urt threw out the nvictn of a gay man who had been arrted for cisg, bee was led that the police partment had acted on unnstutnal “anim toward homosexuals. ”“Put simply, is not at all clear that the Volia County Sheriff remaed wh nstutnal boundari his zeal to arrt, imprison and huiate the men, ” Stern of the men arrted Operatn Park Hopper were middle-aged or olr, which Sommer speculated uld be ditive of generatnal differenc between olr and younger gay men. Gay-rights advot say siar stgs have occurred across the untry.
In the 2015 story, Antonson, who is gay, told The Tim he was seekg a pardon om Gov. “There is an entire generatn of young people that don’t even know why is a big al to be out of the closet and gay.