Michael Waters reviews Jam Kirchick’s book “Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton,” which chronicl the panic over queer polil fluence Washgton, D.C., om the Princy of Frankl D. Roosevelt to that of Bill Clton.
Contents:
- HE WAS ONE OF THE NATN’S MOST REVERED GAY PS. HIS ARRT CHANGED EVERYTHG.
- GAY FORMER POLICE OFFICER NNG FOR WARD 1 COUNCIL
- GAY ARAB-AMERIN FORMER P IS A STRONG NTENR DC CY COUNCIL BRAWL
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR LIAISON UN (LGBTLU)
- D.C. POLICE ARRT 26 MEN FOR GAY SEX FERAL PARK, LAWYER SAYS IT'S ENTRAPMENT
- WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'
- WASHGTON BLA: LGBTQ NEWS, POLICS, LGBTQ RIGHTS, GAY NEWS
- D.C. GAY UPLE ROBBED, PISTOL WHIPPED BUT U.S. ATTORNEY HAS YET TO PROSECUTE
- WHAT MA WASHGTON, D.C., THE “GAYT AND MOST ANTIGAY CY AMERI”
- MAN POSG AS FERAL OFFICER ASSLTED GAY MEN SERI OF ATTACKS AT D.C. PARK, OFFICIALS SAY
- GAY MEN TARGETED MERIDIAN HILL PARK BY FAKE P, PROSECUTORS SAY
HE WAS ONE OF THE NATN’S MOST REVERED GAY PS. HIS ARRT CHANGED EVERYTHG.
Gay former D.C. police officer Salah Czapary on Feb. 12 announced he is nng the cy’s June 21 Democratic primary for the Ward 1 D.C. Council seat, beg the send openly LGBTQ ndidate nng for a seat on the Council this year as a Democrat. * washington dc gay cop *
Miller/TWP) RIGHT: Parson, shown here 2005, was known natnally and ternatnally as a pneer of gay rights policg.
GAY FORMER POLICE OFFICER NNG FOR WARD 1 COUNCIL
Sex-crime charg have been dropped Florida agast the retired D.C. police litenant who head the cy’s former Gay and Lbian Liaison Un. * washington dc gay cop *
’ ”The teenager began to tell the officers the story he would repeat at least three tim that night, cludg at the sexual asslt treatment center where he was taken after his parents were ’d met Parson on Growlr, a datg app for gay men that requir ers to be 18. The man who had jt driven away was known natnally and ternatnally as a pneer of gay rights the natn’s pal, Parson built an award-wng liaison un that vtigated hate crim, beiend advot and marched Pri paras, slowly revolutnizg the relatnship between the police and the cy’s LGBTQ muny.
GAY ARAB-AMERIN FORMER P IS A STRONG NTENR DC CY COUNCIL BRAWL
The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Liaison Un (LGBTLU) is a team of dited officers that foc on the public safety needs of the gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and their allied muni. They nduct public tn mpaigns on issu related to hate crim and public safety. Their primary foc is to ga the tst of the muny and seek out rmatn that leads to the closure of hate crime and vlent crime wh the LGBT muny. They nduct patrol functns and rpond to all cizen plats. * washington dc gay cop *
”Endg ‘fairy shakg’Parson’s reputatn as a gay hero began wh a sndal.
Officer was statng himself outsi a gay club Southeast Washgton. ”The chief stalled after the sndal, Charl Ramsey, saw a solutn to that problem: bolsterg and broang a newly formed Gay and Lbian Liaison, then his early 30s, had been openly gay sce he joed the force. “I was really, really aaid that my reputatn was gog to change om beg a good p who happened to be gay, to beg a gay p that ed to be a good p.
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR LIAISON UN (LGBTLU)
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Rather than raid gay clubs, Parson and the five to 15 members of his un would announce themselv over the loudspeaker, then walk around, troduce themselv and pass out reigerator mags wh their phone number on .
The number was the workaround for those the muny who need help, but worried about the repercsns of llg 911: a gay man experiencg domtic abe om his partner or a transgenr woman wantg to report a hate crime.
(Carol Guzy/The Washgton Post) Wh three years of Parson’s beg put charge, the un won a distguished service award om the cy’s Gay and Lbian Activists Alliance, an anizatn formed part to prott discrimatn by law enforcement.
D.C. POLICE ARRT 26 MEN FOR GAY SEX FERAL PARK, LAWYER SAYS IT'S ENTRAPMENT
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Parson boasted that, on a police force wh few openly gay ps, his imposg figure earned him rpect. ” The term is sometim ed by adults the gay muny who intify or prent as and the teenager unlocked the app’s “private media” feature, allowg them to see revealg pictur of each other. Advot who work wh gay youth say ’s mon for teenagers to explore on datg apps that allow them to meet strangers, pecially if they don’t feel safe exprsg themselv at home or vulnerable kids also e datg apps to seek out adults who will pay them, though mors nnot legally nsent to beg purchased for sex.
“I don’t thk a life should be stroyed over one foolish event late one night, pecially when the ntact was ma on a se where everyone is supposed to be a mimum of 18, ” said Rick Rosendall, former print of the Gay and Lbian Activists Alliance. Dubbed the “don’t say gay” law by opponents, s supporters bandied about terms like “groomg” to create false lks between homosexualy and child abe, which is mted by people of all sexual orientatns. “Somethg like this jt plays right to their narrative, ” said John Guggenmos, owner of several gay nightclubs D.
Gay D. Police litenant who head the cy’s former Gay and Lbian Liaison Un, garnerg a natnal reputatn for buildg tst between law enforcement and unr-served muni.
WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'
In explag the ratnale for droppg the se, assistant state attorney Danielle Lennox said the two had met on Growlr, a gay datg applitn. In one of the most petive rac recent DC Council history, a gay former Metropolan Police Department officer and son of a Paltian refugee is poised to unseat the progrsive cumbent Ward 1. Related: GOP ndidate Herschel Walker’s very flamboyantly not-gay son attacks Pri Month.
WASHGTON BLA: LGBTQ NEWS, POLICS, LGBTQ RIGHTS, GAY NEWS
Sure polics is a tough bs but as the son of a refugee and immigrant, a gay man, and someone who was part of MPD’s rponse to the Jan 6th surrectn, havg that vile p photoshopped on my cloth is ceptive and unte. “I mean, I’m an Arab Amerin gay man. Should he be elected, Czapany will fill the seat of longtime, openly gay Ward 1 uncil rep Jim Graham, who died 2017.
Jim, and those of his generatn, broke barriers that have ma possible for me, a gay Arab-Amerin man, the son of refuge, to participate fully ernment and public service and to ntue the fight towards full equaly for all. Czapany’s foc on LGBTQ issu would clu “makg sure DC remas open and welg to people fleeg persecutn, ” cludg transgenr and gay youth, and addrsg a hog and LGBTQ-affirmg re crisis those groups.
I was 19 years old the first time I acknowledged, to myself, that I was gay.
D.C. GAY UPLE ROBBED, PISTOL WHIPPED BUT U.S. ATTORNEY HAS YET TO PROSECUTE
“I was more worried g out to my parents as a Democrat, ” says Czapany, “than tellg them I was gay. The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Liaison Un (LGBTLU) is a team of dited officers that foc on the public safety needs of the gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and their allied muni. Contactg the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Liaison Un (LGBTLU).
WHAT MA WASHGTON, D.C., THE “GAYT AND MOST ANTIGAY CY AMERI”
""[It's] remiscent of the Stonewall days when gay men were often the target of police discrimatn.
"Sargeant Delgado was unable to nfirm whether the arrts were at the hands of uniformed or placloth Washgton Post scrib Meridian Hill Park as a "gatherg place for all of the District's disparate trib: black and whe, rich and poor, young and old, immigrant and lol, gay and straight, borg and bizarre. " It's also long been nsired cisg spot for gay men of lor.
MAN POSG AS FERAL OFFICER ASSLTED GAY MEN SERI OF ATTACKS AT D.C. PARK, OFFICIALS SAY
"Defense attorneys argued the Pleasure Emporium is such a bs, "well-known and advertised as a gay cisg 'hookup' area.
But the other driver, a 16-year-old boy, told police he and Parson had jt engaged sexual boy reported that he first nnected wh Parson on Growlr, a datg app for gay men. A new book exam the unknown or barely known liv of gay people workg and livg our natn’s pal, a cy known for s mix of power and secrets.
“Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton, " by Jam Kirchick, is a 654-page tome that took years of rearch and an exhstive vtigatn to printial archiv, historil terviews and once-classified ernment rerds.
GAY MEN TARGETED MERIDIAN HILL PARK BY FAKE P, PROSECUTORS SAY
"Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton" by Jam, Henry & Company, Inc. “I realized that all the stori I was readg, and the personali and phenomena, whether was McCarthyism or the Reagans, FDR or JFK, that there were the gay stori lurkg the background, ” Kirchick said.
Those stori lurked the background out of necsy: The st of g out as gay — or, more likely, beg outed agast one’s will — was enormo profsnally and socially.