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Contents:
- GAY POLICE OFFICER FIGHTS FOR FEELG PRI THE FORCE
- NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN
- PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
- POLICE AT PRI? GAY PS, LGBTQ ACTIVISTS STGGLE TO SEE EYE-TO-EYE
GAY POLICE OFFICER FIGHTS FOR FEELG PRI THE FORCE
Edgar Rodriguez has faced discrimatn as a gay man the NYPD, and he’s faced cricism his LGBT muny for his unwaverg pri beg a police officer. * gay guy police 10 7 *
This story was origally published on May 3, Rodriguez remembers when, as a rookie police officer, he saw an olr lleague fly to a rage at the statn after enunterg gay men cisg a park. Rodriguez knew he was gay om a young age.
The bans have been hotly bated and rema Toronto members vote not to allow police to march annual paraPri Toronto -chair rigns amid fallout om police banMarchg the Pri para 'changed my life tremendoly'A few years after wnsg homophobia on the job, a lleague ved Rodriguez to march New York Cy's Pri para wh the Gay Officers Actn League (GOAL), a then-fledglg activist group wh the NYPD workg to curb homophobia the force.
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NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN
The New York Cy Police Department nfirmed Monday that is vtigatg a strg of robberi and asslts that may be nnected to the aths of two gay * gay guy police 10 7 *
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PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
The New York Cy Police Department nfirmed Monday that is vtigatg a strg of robberi and asslts that may be nnected to the aths of two gay men earlier this year shortly after they left gay bars Manhattan's Hell's Kchen neighborhood. His fay prevly told NBC News that approximately $20, 000 had been draed om his bank acunts and that they believed he was Umberger and Jul Ramirez were dgged and killed separate cints followg viss to New York Cy gay Clary / Fay photoAbout a month later, Umberger, a 33-year-old polil nsultant, was found ad after he and two unintified men left another popular Hell's Kchen gay bar, the Q. However, one of the acced, a gay man who remaed anonymo his terview wh Project Q, said he was targeted on Grdr.
POLICE AT PRI? GAY PS, LGBTQ ACTIVISTS STGGLE TO SEE EYE-TO-EYE
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