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Contents:

• THE GAY, BLACK P OM "THE SHIELD"
• WE WENT TO A CONVENTN FOR GAY POLICE OFFICERS BERL
• AS A GAY OFFICER I SAW HOW HOMOPHOBIC THE POLICE ARE

THE GAY, BLACK P OM "THE SHIELD"

Julien is also homosexual. Before marryg Vansa, he nfsed his homosexualy to his wife. As he was beg taken to the Barn, he regnized Julien om outsi a gay club lled The Abbey.

That night, Julien vised Tomas and after assurg him he wasn't gay, they kissed and got his apartment. Julien's homosexualy placed him at great odds wh his relign, even to the pot that he didn't wear his vt to a bt, hopg the crimal would kill him. His stggle to accept his sexualy plays a big role here: Rather than g out of the closet as a gay man, Lowe rigns himself to an unfulfillg life as the hband of a passnately relig woman.

Actor Michael Jace, bt known for playg a gay p on the FX seri "The Shield, " was charged by police wh murr Tuday the shootg ath of his wife, April, their Los Angel home. His character, a strict Christian who hid his homosexualy om his wife and crew, provid an trigug plot for the already layered FX seri.

WE WENT TO A CONVENTN FOR GAY POLICE OFFICERS BERL

00Overbrook Tulane FanMember sce May 20135925 postsre: the gay, black p om "The Shield"Posted by Overbrook on 5/20/14 at 2:16 pm to ATLTiger"Didn't I jt tch you wh a p's dick your mouth? In 2001, when I joed the police, homophobia was rife. And when I me out to my senr officer, he told me he uldn’t ndone what I did “as a homosexual”.

In a secret document my chief supertennt wrote that he had nsired movg me bee of “ncerns over victimisatn rultg om PC Maxwell’s sexual orientatn” many straight ps, beg gay was seen as unnatural. I moved statns and ntued to police other gay men unr outdated laws, wh me and my lleagu often lookg for gay men on the nal towpath we uld punish for sex acts. Senrs officers directed to do this bee, they said, the men were g a public when I thk about the se of Stephen Port – who was last week nvicted of murrg four young gay men, whose killgs tectiv failed to lk spe obv clu – the notn of stutnalised homophobia is at the foreont of my md.

A uple of years after I joed the force the Labour ernment repealed outdated homophobic laws on gross cency and buggery. At this stage, homophobia the police went unrground, and the gay muny unrstandably beme placent.

AS A GAY OFFICER I SAW HOW HOMOPHOBIC THE POLICE ARE

However, though people knew they uld no longer outwardly e homophobic language the workplace, they found other ways to exprs their disda and prejudice.

I recently received a msage om a gay officer who told me he was sufferg homophobia wh Stland Yard.

After givg him advice, I then saw him publicly praise the force for s gay tolerance.