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Contents:
- PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
- POLICE OFFICER GAY PRI HATS
- NYC PRI PARA BANS POLICE; GAY OFFICERS 'DISHEARTENED'
PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
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”The rabow-wrapped pri patch — the first of s kd for a police partment Orange County — was a bold step what was long a famoly red Orange County — where former Print Reagan said good Republins go to die and where John Wayne cly allud to gay people as “perverted” — homophobia has long been on display. The cy of Costa Ma s ago nied a “gay church” perm to John Rule, who helped start the LGBTQ Center OC, now s 50th year.
POLICE OFFICER GAY PRI HATS
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NYC PRI PARA BANS POLICE; GAY OFFICERS 'DISHEARTENED'
“Back the early ’80s, was not an easy place to be an openly gay person, ” said Michael Losquadro, a gay man who serv as a rerve litenant the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.
“Maybe there n be some good thgs out of , but I thk ultimately the most vulnerable people the muni — like queer people of lor, and LGBT muni — are the on that don’t necsarily benef om stutns like policg, ” Brooks centuri, laws and police agenci have opprsed the gay muny, raidg gay bars and prohibg cross-drsg. In 1969, thoands marched agast such discrimatn and the police btaly that acpanied New York the Stonewall uprisg, which marked the begng of the morn LGBTQ rights, lbian, gay, bisexual and queer youth and adults are six tim more likely than the general populatn to be stopped by the police, acrdg to data published May by the UCLA Williams Instute.
But even gay police officers aren’t always wele among the broar LGBTQ muny. Losquadro, who once looked up the word “gay” a phone book and found the hotle for the Gay and Lbian Communy Servic Center of Orange County — the forenner to the LGBTQ Center — felt pecially shunned durg the 2019 event. In New York, the Gay Officers Actn League said was “disheartened” by the cisn, sayg the move was done an effort to “plate some of the activists” the cy.