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- GAY LAW ENFORCEMENT: EQUALY
- “A GAY OFFICER CGHT BETWEEN TWO WORLDS”
- GUERNSEY PRSHOMENEWSSPORTWEATHERSERVICPODSTSNEWSALL NEWS CORONAVISBSPOLICSNEWS OM THE ISLANDSTRAVELVOICEDUTNCAMPAIGNSFEATURMORE PROPERTYUK NEWSWORLD NEWSVIRAL NEWSMOTORSLEVELS OF GAY POLICE OFFICERS ‘VARY SIGNIFINTLY ACROSS THE UNTRY’UK NEWSPUBLISHED: FEB 25, 2022THE DATA FOLLOWS THE QUT TO STEPHEN PORT’S VICTIMS, AT WHICH FAI SAID A LACK OF UNRSTANDG OF LGBT ISSU HRED THE VTIGATNS.SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER!SIGN UPPOLICE OFFICERS WHO INTIFY AS GAY OR LBIAN MAKE UP LS THAN 3% OF THE WORKFORCE SOME NSTABULARI ACROSS ENGLAND AND WAL, THE FIRST FIGUR OF THEIR KD SUGGT.OTHER FORC REPORTED LEVELS MORE THAN DOUBLE THIS, ACRDG TO SNAPSHOT STAFFG FIGUR OBTAED OM POLICE FORC BY THE PA NEWS AGENCY UNR FREEDOM OF INFORMATN (FOI) LAWS.HOWEVER, THE TE NUMBER IS LIKELY TO BE MUCH HIGHER DUE TO SOME OFFICERS BEG RELUCTANT TO E OUT TO THEIR EMPLOYERS AMID NCERNS ABOUT THEIR SEXUALY CREATG A BARRIER TO PROMOTN, OR RULTG HOMOPHOBIC ABE.THE DATA FOLLOWS THE DAMNG NCLNS OF THE QUT FOR THE VICTIMS OF SERIAL KILLER STEPHEN PORT, AT WHICH GRIEVG FAY MEMBERS AND IENDS SAID PREJUDICE, A LACK OF LGBT OFFICERS BARKG AND DAGENHAM, AND A FAILURE TO ENGAGE WH THE GAY MUNY AT THE TIME MEANT CCIAL CLU ABOUT HIS MURRO SPREE WERE MISSED.(PA GRAPHICS)“THERE NEEDS TO BE AN UNRSTANDG OF WHAT THE MUNI NEED TO GIVE PEOPLE AN EQUABLE POLICE SERVICE.”THE PERCENTAGE OF OFFICERS EACH FORCE INTIFYG AS GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL AND STRAIGHT WAS LCULATED BY PA ONLY WHERE NSTABULARI HAD DATA FOR AT LEAST HALF OF S OFFICERS.THIS EQUATED TO 26 OUT OF 40 FORC WHICH REPLIED TO FOI REQUTS.WHILE HEAVILY VEATED, THE DATA DIT WI DISCREPANCI THE NUMBER OF LGB OFFICERS EACH POLICE FORCE.THE HIGHT PERCENTAGE OF OFFICERS INTIFYG AS GAY OR LBIAN, OF THE 26 FORC WH RELEVANT RMATN, WAS SSEX (7.2%), FOLLOWED BY HUMBERSI (6.2%) AND HERTFORDSHIRE (5.8%).CHIEF INSPECTOR LEE BROADSTOCK, OF THE POLICE’S LGBT+ WORK, SAID FORC NEED TO REFLECT THEIR MUNI (GREATER MANCHTER POLICE/PA)THE FIGUR SHOWED DYFED POWYS AND SUFFOLK HAD THE LOWT PERCENTAGE OF OFFICERS INTIFYG AS BISEXUAL (0.8%).THE HIGHT RATE WAS WARWICKSHIRE (4.4%).SIARLY, THE HIGHT RATE OF HETEROSEXUAL OFFICERS WAS DYFED POWYS AND LLNSHIRE (BOTH 96.2%), FOLLOWED BY GLOUCTERSHIRE (95.5%) AND SOUTH WAL (95.4%).THE LOWT RATE WAS SSEX (89.1%) AND WARWICKSHIRE (90.2%).THE FIGUR SHOWED 92.8% SCRIBED THEMSELV AS HETEROSEXUAL, WHERE THEIR SEXUALY WAS RERD TO BE EHER STRAIGHT, GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL, SELF-SCRIBED, OR PANSEXUAL/OTHER.THE FIGUR SHOWED 5.1% INTIFIED AS GAY OR LBIAN, WH 2.1% BISEXUAL.MR BROADSTOCK, A CHIEF SPECTOR WH GREATER MANCHTER POLICE, SAID: “I THK WHAT THE DATA SUGGTS IS THAT THERE IS PROBABLY A HIGHER NCENTRATN OF OFFICERS WHO ARE LGB AREAS WHERE THERE IS A MORE WELG ENVIRONMENT FOR THEM – THAT’S WHERE THEY WILL GRAVATE.”BUT HE SAID THE TE NUMBER OF LGB OFFICERS EACH FORCE IS LIKELY TO BE HIGHER, WH NO SEXUALY RERD FOR 61,000 OUT OF 131,000 OFFICERS.RELATIV OF STEPHEN PORT’S VICTIMS SAID THERE WAS A LACK OF UNRSTANDG OF THE GAY MUNY WH THE POLICE 2014 AND 2015 WHEN HE MURRED FOUR GAY MEN (METROPOLAN POLICE/PA)“IT IS SAD THAT THAT IS STILL THE SE SOMETIM, BUT THE PICTURE IS ABSOLUTELY IMPROVG.“IF YOU TRIED TO GET THE FIGUR 20 YEARS AGO WOULD HAVE BEEN A VERY DIFFERENT STORY – I DOUBT YOU WOULD HAVE GOT ANY DATA.”LATT FIGUR OM THE OFFICE FOR NATNAL STATISTICS, PUBLISHED 2019, SHOW AN TIMATED 2.7% OF THE UK POPULATN AGED 16 AND OVER INTIFY AS GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL, UP OM 2.2% 2018.ANOTHER 3.0% STATED THEY DID NOT KNOW THEIR SEXUALY, OR REFED TO ANSWER, UP OM 2.5% 2018.UK NEWSMOST READ
- EXPRS & STARHOMENEWSSPORTENTERTAMENTSERVICNOTIFITN SETTGSSUBSCRIBE TO ONE OR ALL NOTIFITN SOURC OM THIS ONE PLACE.NEWSLETTERSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO GET THE DAY'S TOP STORI SENT DIRECTLY TO YOU.SIGN ME UPNEWSALL NEWS COST OF LIVGLOL HUBSCRIMEPOLICSHEALTHBSEDUTNVOICFEATURENVIRONMENTMORE UK NEWSNOSTALGIAPROPERTYTRANSPORTMOTORSWORLD NEWSVIRAL NEWSFEED A FAYSPONSORED ARTICLFD NEWS FOR YOUR TOWNLEVELS OF GAY POLICE OFFICERS ‘VARY SIGNIFINTLY ACROSS THE UNTRY’UK NEWSPUBLISHED: FEB 25, 2022THE DATA FOLLOWS THE QUT TO STEPHEN PORT’S VICTIMS, AT WHICH FAI SAID A LACK OF UNRSTANDG OF LGBT ISSU HRED THE VTIGATNS.SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER!SIGN UPA RABOW FLAT AT PRI LONDONPOLICE OFFICERS WHO INTIFY AS GAY OR LBIAN MAKE UP LS THAN 3% OF THE WORKFORCE SOME NSTABULARI ACROSS ENGLAND AND WAL, THE FIRST FIGUR OF THEIR KD SUGGT.OTHER FORC REPORTED LEVELS MORE THAN DOUBLE THIS, ACRDG TO SNAPSHOT STAFFG FIGUR OBTAED OM POLICE FORC BY THE PA NEWS AGENCY UNR FREEDOM OF INFORMATN (FOI) LAWS.HOWEVER, THE TE NUMBER IS LIKELY TO BE MUCH HIGHER DUE TO SOME OFFICERS BEG RELUCTANT TO E OUT TO THEIR EMPLOYERS AMID NCERNS ABOUT THEIR SEXUALY CREATG A BARRIER TO PROMOTN, OR RULTG HOMOPHOBIC ABE.THE DATA FOLLOWS THE DAMNG NCLNS OF THE QUT FOR THE VICTIMS OF SERIAL KILLER STEPHEN PORT, AT WHICH GRIEVG FAY MEMBERS AND IENDS SAID PREJUDICE, A LACK OF LGBT OFFICERS BARKG AND DAGENHAM, AND A FAILURE TO ENGAGE WH THE GAY MUNY AT THE TIME MEANT CCIAL CLU ABOUT HIS MURRO SPREE WERE MISSED.(PA GRAPHICS)CHIEF INSPECTOR LEE BROADSTOCK, -CHAIRMAN OF THE LGBT+ WORK REPRENTG GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL AND TRANS OFFICERS ACROSS THE UNTRY, TOLD PA: “IF WE’RE NOT REPRENTATIVE OF OUR MUNI THEN WE DON’T UNRSTAND THAT MUNY.“THERE NEEDS TO BE AN UNRSTANDG OF WHAT THE MUNI NEED TO GIVE PEOPLE AN EQUABLE POLICE SERVICE.”THE PERCENTAGE OF OFFICERS EACH FORCE INTIFYG AS GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL AND STRAIGHT WAS LCULATED BY PA ONLY WHERE NSTABULARI HAD DATA FOR AT LEAST HALF OF S OFFICERS.THIS EQUATED TO 26 OUT OF 40 FORC WHICH REPLIED TO FOI REQUTS.WHILE HEAVILY VEATED, THE DATA DIT WI DISCREPANCI THE NUMBER OF LGB OFFICERS EACH POLICE FORCE.THE HIGHT PERCENTAGE OF OFFICERS INTIFYG AS GAY OR LBIAN, OF THE 26 FORC WH RELEVANT RMATN, WAS SSEX (7.2%), FOLLOWED BY HUMBERSI (6.2%) AND HERTFORDSHIRE (5.8%).CHIEF INSPECTOR LEE BROADSTOCK, OF THE POLICE’S LGBT+ WORK, SAID FORC NEED TO REFLECT THEIR MUNI (GREATER MANCHTER POLICE/PA)CONVERSELY, THE LOWT PERCENTAGE OF GAY AND LBIAN OFFICERS WAS LLNSHIRE (2.3%), FOLLOWED BY DYFED POWYS AND NORTH WAL (BOTH 2.9%).THE FIGUR SHOWED DYFED POWYS AND SUFFOLK HAD THE LOWT PERCENTAGE OF OFFICERS INTIFYG AS BISEXUAL (0.8%).THE HIGHT RATE WAS WARWICKSHIRE (4.4%).SIARLY, THE HIGHT RATE OF HETEROSEXUAL OFFICERS WAS DYFED POWYS AND LLNSHIRE (BOTH 96.2%), FOLLOWED BY GLOUCTERSHIRE (95.5%) AND SOUTH WAL (95.4%).THE LOWT RATE WAS SSEX (89.1%) AND WARWICKSHIRE (90.2%).THE METROPOLAN POLICE – THE UNTRY’S LARGT FORCE, WH A HEADUNT OF MORE THAN 33,500 – ONLY HAD DATA FOR 40.1% OF THE WORKFORCE.THE FIGUR SHOWED 92.8% SCRIBED THEMSELV AS HETEROSEXUAL, WHERE THEIR SEXUALY WAS RERD TO BE EHER STRAIGHT, GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL, SELF-SCRIBED, OR PANSEXUAL/OTHER.THE FIGUR SHOWED 5.1% INTIFIED AS GAY OR LBIAN, WH 2.1% BISEXUAL.MR BROADSTOCK, A CHIEF SPECTOR WH GREATER MANCHTER POLICE, SAID: “I THK WHAT THE DATA SUGGTS IS THAT THERE IS PROBABLY A HIGHER NCENTRATN OF OFFICERS WHO ARE LGB AREAS WHERE THERE IS A MORE WELG ENVIRONMENT FOR THEM – THAT’S WHERE THEY WILL GRAVATE.”BUT HE SAID THE TE NUMBER OF LGB OFFICERS EACH FORCE IS LIKELY TO BE HIGHER, WH NO SEXUALY RERD FOR 61,000 OUT OF 131,000 OFFICERS.RELATIV OF STEPHEN PORT’S VICTIMS SAID THERE WAS A LACK OF UNRSTANDG OF THE GAY MUNY WH THE POLICE 2014 AND 2015 WHEN HE MURRED FOUR GAY MEN (METROPOLAN POLICE/PA)MR BROADSTOCK, WHO SAID HE HAS PREVLY EXPERIENCED HOMOPHOBIA AMONG LLEAGU AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, ADD: “SOMETIM THEY DON’T TST WHAT THEIR FORCE HR IS GOG TO DO WH THEIR RPONS – ARE THEY GOG TO BE TREATED LS FAVOURABLY FUTURE WHEN TO PROMOTNS? – AND WHOUT DOUBT PORT SHED A LIGHT ON CULTUR WH POLICG THAT ARE NOT WELG ENVIRONMENTS.“IT IS SAD THAT THAT IS STILL THE SE SOMETIM, BUT THE PICTURE IS ABSOLUTELY IMPROVG.“IF YOU TRIED TO GET THE FIGUR 20 YEARS AGO WOULD HAVE BEEN A VERY DIFFERENT STORY – I DOUBT YOU WOULD HAVE GOT ANY DATA.”LATT FIGUR OM THE OFFICE FOR NATNAL STATISTICS, PUBLISHED 2019, SHOW AN TIMATED 2.7% OF THE UK POPULATN AGED 16 AND OVER INTIFY AS GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL, UP OM 2.2% 2018.ANOTHER 3.0% STATED THEY DID NOT KNOW THEIR SEXUALY, OR REFED TO ANSWER, UP OM 2.5% 2018.UK NEWSMOST READ
GAY LAW ENFORCEMENT: EQUALY
Weakeng muny tst: A recent study of gay and bisexual intified men found that 40% believed that ntactg the police rponse to a vlent cint om an timate partner would be unhelpful or very unhelpful, and 59% believed that the police would be ls helpful to a gay or bisexual man than to a heterosexual woman the same suatn.
Reports n be found across the Uned Stat of police allegedly g excsive force agast lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people. The multiday prott — wily nsired a pivotal turng pot the morn gay rights movement — was triggered by a police raid on the popular Stonewall Inn gay bar.
History, police officers were bound to enforce explicly anti-gay laws — om lol measur outlawg men om “impersonatg a female” to the wispread crimalizatn of same-sex sexual activy. Texas that gay sex was crimalized throughout the untry. She poted to a study published by the Williams Instute May that found lbian, gay, bisexual and queer people are six tim more likely than the general public to be stopped by police (data about transgenr dividuals were not available the datasets analyzed).
“A GAY OFFICER CGHT BETWEEN TWO WORLDS”
The bans have been divisive, even wh the LGBTQ muny — and particularly among openly gay police officers.
Prr to the start of this trag, negative attus about the LGBTQ muny were reportedly pervasive wh the partment: In 1996, durg a retrag of veteran officers, a word associatn exercise asked for rpons to the word “gays. Gtavo Alvarez, a gay rint of Palo Alto, California, settled his lawsu agast s police partment after accg of vlatg his civil rights, rultg a settlement that clud a $572, 500 payout and a one-off two hours of mandatory LGBTQ-awarens trag for all police officers the partment.
GUERNSEY PRSHOMENEWSSPORTWEATHERSERVICPODSTSNEWSALL NEWS CORONAVISBSPOLICSNEWS OM THE ISLANDSTRAVELVOICEDUTNCAMPAIGNSFEATURMORE PROPERTYUK NEWSWORLD NEWSVIRAL NEWSMOTORSLEVELS OF GAY POLICE OFFICERS ‘VARY SIGNIFINTLY ACROSS THE UNTRY’UK NEWSPUBLISHED: FEB 25, 2022THE DATA FOLLOWS THE QUT TO STEPHEN PORT’S VICTIMS, AT WHICH FAI SAID A LACK OF UNRSTANDG OF LGBT ISSU HRED THE VTIGATNS.SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER!SIGN UPPOLICE OFFICERS WHO INTIFY AS GAY OR LBIAN MAKE UP LS THAN 3% OF THE WORKFORCE SOME NSTABULARI ACROSS ENGLAND AND WAL, THE FIRST FIGUR OF THEIR KD SUGGT.OTHER FORC REPORTED LEVELS MORE THAN DOUBLE THIS, ACRDG TO SNAPSHOT STAFFG FIGUR OBTAED OM POLICE FORC BY THE PA NEWS AGENCY UNR FREEDOM OF INFORMATN (FOI) LAWS.HOWEVER, THE TE NUMBER IS LIKELY TO BE MUCH HIGHER DUE TO SOME OFFICERS BEG RELUCTANT TO E OUT TO THEIR EMPLOYERS AMID NCERNS ABOUT THEIR SEXUALY CREATG A BARRIER TO PROMOTN, OR RULTG HOMOPHOBIC ABE.THE DATA FOLLOWS THE DAMNG NCLNS OF THE QUT FOR THE VICTIMS OF SERIAL KILLER STEPHEN PORT, AT WHICH GRIEVG FAY MEMBERS AND IENDS SAID PREJUDICE, A LACK OF LGBT OFFICERS BARKG AND DAGENHAM, AND A FAILURE TO ENGAGE WH THE GAY MUNY AT THE TIME MEANT CCIAL CLU ABOUT HIS MURRO SPREE WERE MISSED.(PA GRAPHICS)“THERE NEEDS TO BE AN UNRSTANDG OF WHAT THE MUNI NEED TO GIVE PEOPLE AN EQUABLE POLICE SERVICE.”THE PERCENTAGE OF OFFICERS EACH FORCE INTIFYG AS GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL AND STRAIGHT WAS LCULATED BY PA ONLY WHERE NSTABULARI HAD DATA FOR AT LEAST HALF OF S OFFICERS.THIS EQUATED TO 26 OUT OF 40 FORC WHICH REPLIED TO FOI REQUTS.WHILE HEAVILY VEATED, THE DATA DIT WI DISCREPANCI THE NUMBER OF LGB OFFICERS EACH POLICE FORCE.THE HIGHT PERCENTAGE OF OFFICERS INTIFYG AS GAY OR LBIAN, OF THE 26 FORC WH RELEVANT RMATN, WAS SSEX (7.2%), FOLLOWED BY HUMBERSI (6.2%) AND HERTFORDSHIRE (5.8%).CHIEF INSPECTOR LEE BROADSTOCK, OF THE POLICE’S LGBT+ WORK, SAID FORC NEED TO REFLECT THEIR MUNI (GREATER MANCHTER POLICE/PA)THE FIGUR SHOWED DYFED POWYS AND SUFFOLK HAD THE LOWT PERCENTAGE OF OFFICERS INTIFYG AS BISEXUAL (0.8%).THE HIGHT RATE WAS WARWICKSHIRE (4.4%).SIARLY, THE HIGHT RATE OF HETEROSEXUAL OFFICERS WAS DYFED POWYS AND LLNSHIRE (BOTH 96.2%), FOLLOWED BY GLOUCTERSHIRE (95.5%) AND SOUTH WAL (95.4%).THE LOWT RATE WAS SSEX (89.1%) AND WARWICKSHIRE (90.2%).THE FIGUR SHOWED 92.8% SCRIBED THEMSELV AS HETEROSEXUAL, WHERE THEIR SEXUALY WAS RERD TO BE EHER STRAIGHT, GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL, SELF-SCRIBED, OR PANSEXUAL/OTHER.THE FIGUR SHOWED 5.1% INTIFIED AS GAY OR LBIAN, WH 2.1% BISEXUAL.MR BROADSTOCK, A CHIEF SPECTOR WH GREATER MANCHTER POLICE, SAID: “I THK WHAT THE DATA SUGGTS IS THAT THERE IS PROBABLY A HIGHER NCENTRATN OF OFFICERS WHO ARE LGB AREAS WHERE THERE IS A MORE WELG ENVIRONMENT FOR THEM – THAT’S WHERE THEY WILL GRAVATE.”BUT HE SAID THE TE NUMBER OF LGB OFFICERS EACH FORCE IS LIKELY TO BE HIGHER, WH NO SEXUALY RERD FOR 61,000 OUT OF 131,000 OFFICERS.RELATIV OF STEPHEN PORT’S VICTIMS SAID THERE WAS A LACK OF UNRSTANDG OF THE GAY MUNY WH THE POLICE 2014 AND 2015 WHEN HE MURRED FOUR GAY MEN (METROPOLAN POLICE/PA)“IT IS SAD THAT THAT IS STILL THE SE SOMETIM, BUT THE PICTURE IS ABSOLUTELY IMPROVG.“IF YOU TRIED TO GET THE FIGUR 20 YEARS AGO WOULD HAVE BEEN A VERY DIFFERENT STORY – I DOUBT YOU WOULD HAVE GOT ANY DATA.”LATT FIGUR OM THE OFFICE FOR NATNAL STATISTICS, PUBLISHED 2019, SHOW AN TIMATED 2.7% OF THE UK POPULATN AGED 16 AND OVER INTIFY AS GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL, UP OM 2.2% 2018.ANOTHER 3.0% STATED THEY DID NOT KNOW THEIR SEXUALY, OR REFED TO ANSWER, UP OM 2.5% 2018.UK NEWSMOST READ
“There was no secret that he was gay, and the officers fely ed that as a way to mean him their prr ntacts wh him and also durg this ntact. In New York Cy — where LGBTQ trag is provid by the Gay Officers Actn League (GOAL) for both new recs and veteran officers — Cummgs wants the police missner to be a civilian and lgs om the Civilian Complat Review Board, the NYPD’s oversight agency, be bdg. “Across the board systemic racism and homophobia is play wh policg, so go beyond trag and budget.
Rey discs his experienc as an openly gay officer and how his “g out” has helped many others siar suatns bee fortable wh who they are the reer they choose.
Tommy Rey: I thk back when I was younger, I gus I thought beg gay was a phase, and I thought ’ll go away. She has a gay brother, so she don't have any issu wh gay people.
EXPRS & STARHOMENEWSSPORTENTERTAMENTSERVICNOTIFITN SETTGSSUBSCRIBE TO ONE OR ALL NOTIFITN SOURC OM THIS ONE PLACE.NEWSLETTERSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO GET THE DAY'S TOP STORI SENT DIRECTLY TO YOU.SIGN ME UPNEWSALL NEWS COST OF LIVGLOL HUBSCRIMEPOLICSHEALTHBSEDUTNVOICFEATURENVIRONMENTMORE UK NEWSNOSTALGIAPROPERTYTRANSPORTMOTORSWORLD NEWSVIRAL NEWSFEED A FAYSPONSORED ARTICLFD NEWS FOR YOUR TOWNLEVELS OF GAY POLICE OFFICERS ‘VARY SIGNIFINTLY ACROSS THE UNTRY’UK NEWSPUBLISHED: FEB 25, 2022THE DATA FOLLOWS THE QUT TO STEPHEN PORT’S VICTIMS, AT WHICH FAI SAID A LACK OF UNRSTANDG OF LGBT ISSU HRED THE VTIGATNS.SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER!SIGN UPA RABOW FLAT AT PRI LONDONPOLICE OFFICERS WHO INTIFY AS GAY OR LBIAN MAKE UP LS THAN 3% OF THE WORKFORCE SOME NSTABULARI ACROSS ENGLAND AND WAL, THE FIRST FIGUR OF THEIR KD SUGGT.OTHER FORC REPORTED LEVELS MORE THAN DOUBLE THIS, ACRDG TO SNAPSHOT STAFFG FIGUR OBTAED OM POLICE FORC BY THE PA NEWS AGENCY UNR FREEDOM OF INFORMATN (FOI) LAWS.HOWEVER, THE TE NUMBER IS LIKELY TO BE MUCH HIGHER DUE TO SOME OFFICERS BEG RELUCTANT TO E OUT TO THEIR EMPLOYERS AMID NCERNS ABOUT THEIR SEXUALY CREATG A BARRIER TO PROMOTN, OR RULTG HOMOPHOBIC ABE.THE DATA FOLLOWS THE DAMNG NCLNS OF THE QUT FOR THE VICTIMS OF SERIAL KILLER STEPHEN PORT, AT WHICH GRIEVG FAY MEMBERS AND IENDS SAID PREJUDICE, A LACK OF LGBT OFFICERS BARKG AND DAGENHAM, AND A FAILURE TO ENGAGE WH THE GAY MUNY AT THE TIME MEANT CCIAL CLU ABOUT HIS MURRO SPREE WERE MISSED.(PA GRAPHICS)CHIEF INSPECTOR LEE BROADSTOCK, -CHAIRMAN OF THE LGBT+ WORK REPRENTG GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL AND TRANS OFFICERS ACROSS THE UNTRY, TOLD PA: “IF WE’RE NOT REPRENTATIVE OF OUR MUNI THEN WE DON’T UNRSTAND THAT MUNY.“THERE NEEDS TO BE AN UNRSTANDG OF WHAT THE MUNI NEED TO GIVE PEOPLE AN EQUABLE POLICE SERVICE.”THE PERCENTAGE OF OFFICERS EACH FORCE INTIFYG AS GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL AND STRAIGHT WAS LCULATED BY PA ONLY WHERE NSTABULARI HAD DATA FOR AT LEAST HALF OF S OFFICERS.THIS EQUATED TO 26 OUT OF 40 FORC WHICH REPLIED TO FOI REQUTS.WHILE HEAVILY VEATED, THE DATA DIT WI DISCREPANCI THE NUMBER OF LGB OFFICERS EACH POLICE FORCE.THE HIGHT PERCENTAGE OF OFFICERS INTIFYG AS GAY OR LBIAN, OF THE 26 FORC WH RELEVANT RMATN, WAS SSEX (7.2%), FOLLOWED BY HUMBERSI (6.2%) AND HERTFORDSHIRE (5.8%).CHIEF INSPECTOR LEE BROADSTOCK, OF THE POLICE’S LGBT+ WORK, SAID FORC NEED TO REFLECT THEIR MUNI (GREATER MANCHTER POLICE/PA)CONVERSELY, THE LOWT PERCENTAGE OF GAY AND LBIAN OFFICERS WAS LLNSHIRE (2.3%), FOLLOWED BY DYFED POWYS AND NORTH WAL (BOTH 2.9%).THE FIGUR SHOWED DYFED POWYS AND SUFFOLK HAD THE LOWT PERCENTAGE OF OFFICERS INTIFYG AS BISEXUAL (0.8%).THE HIGHT RATE WAS WARWICKSHIRE (4.4%).SIARLY, THE HIGHT RATE OF HETEROSEXUAL OFFICERS WAS DYFED POWYS AND LLNSHIRE (BOTH 96.2%), FOLLOWED BY GLOUCTERSHIRE (95.5%) AND SOUTH WAL (95.4%).THE LOWT RATE WAS SSEX (89.1%) AND WARWICKSHIRE (90.2%).THE METROPOLAN POLICE – THE UNTRY’S LARGT FORCE, WH A HEADUNT OF MORE THAN 33,500 – ONLY HAD DATA FOR 40.1% OF THE WORKFORCE.THE FIGUR SHOWED 92.8% SCRIBED THEMSELV AS HETEROSEXUAL, WHERE THEIR SEXUALY WAS RERD TO BE EHER STRAIGHT, GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL, SELF-SCRIBED, OR PANSEXUAL/OTHER.THE FIGUR SHOWED 5.1% INTIFIED AS GAY OR LBIAN, WH 2.1% BISEXUAL.MR BROADSTOCK, A CHIEF SPECTOR WH GREATER MANCHTER POLICE, SAID: “I THK WHAT THE DATA SUGGTS IS THAT THERE IS PROBABLY A HIGHER NCENTRATN OF OFFICERS WHO ARE LGB AREAS WHERE THERE IS A MORE WELG ENVIRONMENT FOR THEM – THAT’S WHERE THEY WILL GRAVATE.”BUT HE SAID THE TE NUMBER OF LGB OFFICERS EACH FORCE IS LIKELY TO BE HIGHER, WH NO SEXUALY RERD FOR 61,000 OUT OF 131,000 OFFICERS.RELATIV OF STEPHEN PORT’S VICTIMS SAID THERE WAS A LACK OF UNRSTANDG OF THE GAY MUNY WH THE POLICE 2014 AND 2015 WHEN HE MURRED FOUR GAY MEN (METROPOLAN POLICE/PA)MR BROADSTOCK, WHO SAID HE HAS PREVLY EXPERIENCED HOMOPHOBIA AMONG LLEAGU AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, ADD: “SOMETIM THEY DON’T TST WHAT THEIR FORCE HR IS GOG TO DO WH THEIR RPONS – ARE THEY GOG TO BE TREATED LS FAVOURABLY FUTURE WHEN TO PROMOTNS? – AND WHOUT DOUBT PORT SHED A LIGHT ON CULTUR WH POLICG THAT ARE NOT WELG ENVIRONMENTS.“IT IS SAD THAT THAT IS STILL THE SE SOMETIM, BUT THE PICTURE IS ABSOLUTELY IMPROVG.“IF YOU TRIED TO GET THE FIGUR 20 YEARS AGO WOULD HAVE BEEN A VERY DIFFERENT STORY – I DOUBT YOU WOULD HAVE GOT ANY DATA.”LATT FIGUR OM THE OFFICE FOR NATNAL STATISTICS, PUBLISHED 2019, SHOW AN TIMATED 2.7% OF THE UK POPULATN AGED 16 AND OVER INTIFY AS GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL, UP OM 2.2% 2018.ANOTHER 3.0% STATED THEY DID NOT KNOW THEIR SEXUALY, OR REFED TO ANSWER, UP OM 2.5% 2018.UK NEWSMOST READ
Well when I married her, I didn’t really know I was gay. So, I gus I was the first gay guy my partment to e out. Have you felt any rentment om beg openly gay?
There was some stuff on there about me —rogatory ments about me beg gay. Whether is bee you are gay or have gay tennci, I thk a lot of has to do wh that.