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- HE WAS ONE OF THE NATN’S MOST REVERED GAY PS. HIS ARRT CHANGED EVERYTHG.
- 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
- WASHGTON BLA: LGBTQ NEWS, POLICS, LGBTQ RIGHTS, GAY NEWS
- D.C. POLICE ARRT 26 MEN FOR GAY SEX FERAL PARK, LAWYER SAYS IT'S ENTRAPMENT
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. * gay cop dc *
Miller/TWP) RIGHT: Parson, shown here 2005, was known natnally and ternatnally as a pneer of gay rights policg. ’ ”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. ”Endg ‘fairy shakg’Parson’s reputatn as a gay hero began wh a sndal.
HE WAS ONE OF THE NATN’S MOST REVERED GAY PS. HIS ARRT CHANGED EVERYTHG.
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. * gay cop dc *
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. 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.
GAY FORMER POLICE OFFICER NNG FOR WARD 1 COUNCIL
(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. ” 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.
GAY ARAB-AMERIN FORMER P IS A STRONG NTENR DC CY COUNCIL BRAWL
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.
Acrdg to Smh, that un, listed on the MPD webse as the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Liaison Un (LGBTLU), provis servic to crime victims, outreach to muny meetgs, and “trag and support to the rt of the partment as well as the muny. Gay rint Ernt Terrell Newkirk, 55, whose body was found May 28 on a Southeast D. Street several hours after he attend an LGBTQ Black Pri dance party at a Capol Hill gay bar.
WASHGTON BLA: LGBTQ NEWS, POLICS, LGBTQ RIGHTS, GAY NEWS
Gay man whose body was found on a street Southeast D. 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.
D.C. POLICE ARRT 26 MEN FOR GAY SEX FERAL PARK, LAWYER SAYS IT'S ENTRAPMENT
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.