Vio Rurfac Of Kg Von Tellg Police He's "Gay" In Jail

Contents:

• VIO RURFAC OF KG VON TELLG POLICE HE'S "GAY" TO RELOTE IN JAIL
• PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
• COMG OUT AT WORK: WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE A GAY P NEW JERSEY
• GAY CLEVELAND POLICE OFFICER SU, SAYS HE ENDURED HARASSMENT BY FELLOW PS
• AS A GAY OFFICER I SAW HOW HOMOPHOBIC THE POLICE ARE
• THE COPS STANDG WH, AND FOR, THE GAY COMMUNI THEY SERVE
• POLICE AT PRI? GAY PS, LGBTQ ACTIVISTS STGGLE TO SEE EYE-TO-EYE

VIO RURFAC OF KG VON TELLG POLICE HE'S "GAY" TO RELOTE IN JAIL

In the rerdg leaked earlier this week, the Chigo rapper appears to claim he’s gay to law enforcement officers an effort to secure a cell transfer while servg time jail.

They got a problem wh gay people.

Weakeng muny tst: A recent study of gay and bisexual intified men found that 40% believed that ntactg the police rponse to a vlent cint om an timate partner would be unhelpful or very unhelpful, and 59% believed that the police would be ls helpful to a gay or bisexual man than to a heterosexual woman the same suatn.

PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.

” On a rooftop at the end of the day, after some drks, he lled home and told his father that he was gay. So I uld see the Herage of Pri para as this thg for whe gay men, mcly, glter.

“Gay liberatn, ” she said, “meant revolutn.

COMG OUT AT WORK: WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE A GAY P NEW JERSEY

” The monstrators left angry but clash between protters and police fillg social media, prsure rose on Herage of Pri to rce police volvement, cludg banng the Gay Officers Actn League, which routely receiv effive cheers durg the Pri march.

” The board did not tell members about the cisn or ask for a the Gay Officers Actn League learned about the g policy, pre-empted Herage of Pri wh s own statement llg the ban “shameful.

GAY CLEVELAND POLICE OFFICER SU, SAYS HE ENDURED HARASSMENT BY FELLOW PS

“My God, what a bate over this, ” said Andy Humm, a longtime -host of “Gay USA, ” a TV news program. In the past week, he told them, he had received onle msag of hate nsistently om whe gay men, to the extent that his fay feared for his safety. Fisher, who had lled for the vote of no Downey, print of the gay officers group, said he felt “betrayed” by the ban, pecially bee the officers “put so much of themselv on the choppg block” by workg to change practic and attus wh their partments.

AS A GAY OFFICER I SAW HOW HOMOPHOBIC THE POLICE ARE

Jam Tracy me out as gay to his police joed the Englewood Cliffs police partment 2002, but 10 years passed before he revealed his secret. “I was gettg lls om gay police officers all over the untry sayg thgs like ‘Hey, thanks for the publicy and gettg out there', ” he said. ”It's not always easy to be a p who is gay, but each step forward helps pave the way for a better future work environment, Tracy ntu below galleryWell before Tracy ever put on the police uniform, Wtwood police Officer Larry Schwartz helped pave the way for gay officers.

THE COPS STANDG WH, AND FOR, THE GAY COMMUNI THEY SERVE

Schwartz remends other gay ps get volved and take the time to fd peers and seek help if there are road for officers who e out as gay to lleagu has not always been smooth.

“It’s part of the tnal program bee people might not nsir themselv homophobic or racist, but have unrlyg patterns that are, ” Tracy said.

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

Reports n be found across the Uned Stat of police allegedly g excsive force agast lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people.