A Maryland man was arrted Thursday for allegedly assltg men he believed were gay over a three-year perd a Washgton, DC, park, officials said.
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- HE WAS ONE OF THE NATN’S MOST REVERED GAY PS. HIS ARRT CHANGED EVERYTHG.
- MARYLAND MAN ARRTED AFTER ALLEGEDLY ASSLTG MEN HE BELIEVED WERE GAY A WASHGTON, DC, PARK
- MARYLAND MAN ARRTED AFTER YEARS OF ASSLTG MEN HE BELIEVED WERE GAY DC PARK, DOJ SAYS
- MAN ARRTED NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS SAID WAS ‘REVENGE’ ON BEHALF OF FEMALE IEND
- SODOMY LAWS THAT LABELED GAY PEOPLE SEX OFFENRS CHALLENGED URT
- LOUISIANA MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO KIDNAPPG GAY TEEN HE MET ON GRDR ATTEMPTED MURR SCHEME
- ARRTED AT STONEWALL, GAY MAN SE PROGRS
HE WAS ONE OF THE NATN’S MOST REVERED GAY PS. HIS ARRT CHANGED EVERYTHG.
* gay person arrested *
Miller/TWP) RIGHT: Parson, shown here 2005, was known natnally and ternatnally as a pneer of gay rights policg.
MARYLAND MAN ARRTED AFTER ALLEGEDLY ASSLTG MEN HE BELIEVED WERE GAY A WASHGTON, DC, PARK
Three stat still require people nvicted of havg gay sex prr to the Supreme Court's lg Lawrence v. Texas 2003 to register as sex offenrs. * gay person arrested *
’ ”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.
MARYLAND MAN ARRTED AFTER YEARS OF ASSLTG MEN HE BELIEVED WERE GAY DC PARK, DOJ SAYS
Lbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) dividuals are disproportnately rcerated, mistreated and sexually victimized U.S. jails and prisons, rearchers say. * gay person arrested *
”Endg ‘fairy shakg’Parson’s reputatn as a gay hero began wh a sndal. Officer was statng himself outsi a gay club Southeast Washgton.
MAN ARRTED NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS SAID WAS ‘REVENGE’ ON BEHALF OF FEMALE IEND
A Louisiana man admted to kidnappg a gay teenager he met on the LGBTQ datg app Grdr wh the tentn of murrg him and dismemberg his body. * gay person arrested *
”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.
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 .
SODOMY LAWS THAT LABELED GAY PEOPLE SEX OFFENRS CHALLENGED URT
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. Parson boasted that, on a police force wh few openly gay ps, his imposg figure earned him rpect.
LOUISIANA MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO KIDNAPPG GAY TEEN HE MET ON GRDR ATTEMPTED MURR SCHEME
” 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.
ARRTED AT STONEWALL, GAY MAN SE PROGRS
A Maryland man was arrted Thursday for allegedly assltg men he believed were gay over a three-year perd a Washgton, DC, park, officials said.