Gay Cops: Pri Behd the Badge (Short 2003) - IMDb

Contents:

• COMG OUT AT WORK: WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE A GAY P NEW JERSEY
• WE WENT TO A CONVENTN FOR GAY POLICE OFFICERS BERL
• GAY P WHO WAS MOTED THREE RANKS SU N.J. TOWN FOR DISCRIMATN
• 19-YEAR-OLD P OBSSED WH GAY PEOPLE QUS PROTT AFTER BOSS SAYS HE N’T BE SO HOMOPHOBIC
• PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
• HE WAS ONE OF THE NATN’S MOST REVERED GAY PS. HIS ARRT CHANGED EVERYTHG.
• GAY COPS
• GAY COPS: PRI BEHD THE BADGE
• GAY COP
• NYC PRI PARA BANS POLICE; GAY OFFICERS 'DISHEARTENED'

COMG OUT AT WORK: WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE A GAY P NEW JERSEY

Jam Tracy me out as gay to his police joed the Englewood Cliffs police partment 2002, but 10 years passed before he revealed his secret. “I was gettg lls om gay police officers all over the untry sayg thgs like ‘Hey, thanks for the publicy and gettg out there', ” he said.

WE WENT TO A CONVENTN FOR GAY POLICE OFFICERS BERL

”It's not always easy to be a p who is gay, but each step forward helps pave the way for a better future work environment, Tracy ntu below galleryWell before Tracy ever put on the police uniform, Wtwood police Officer Larry Schwartz helped pave the way for gay officers. Schwartz remends other gay ps get volved and take the time to fd peers and seek help if there are road for officers who e out as gay to lleagu has not always been smooth.

“It’s part of the tnal program bee people might not nsir themselv homophobic or racist, but have unrlyg patterns that are, ” Tracy said. He’s the 19-year-old ex-p/nservative podster om Geia beg herald by right-wgers as a hero for rigng om his job prott after beg reprimand for makg homophobic remarks onle.

The teenager jt qu his job wh the Port Wentworth Police Department, which serv a town of roughly 11, 000 cizens the Savannah metropolan area, after claimg “there’s no such thg” as gay marriage on social media and then refg to take down the post after someone saw and plaed to his boss. That’s why there’s no such thg as homosexual marriage.

GAY P WHO WAS MOTED THREE RANKS SU N.J. TOWN FOR DISCRIMATN

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” On a rooftop at the end of the day, after some drks, he lled home and told his father that he was gay. So I uld see the Herage of Pri para as this thg for whe gay men, mcly, glter.

19-YEAR-OLD P OBSSED WH GAY PEOPLE QUS PROTT AFTER BOSS SAYS HE N’T BE SO HOMOPHOBIC

“Gay liberatn, ” she said, “meant revolutn.

PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.

” The monstrators left angry but clash between protters and police fillg social media, prsure rose on Herage of Pri to rce police volvement, cludg banng the Gay Officers Actn League, which routely receiv effive cheers durg the Pri march. ” The board did not tell members about the cisn or ask for a the Gay Officers Actn League learned about the g policy, pre-empted Herage of Pri wh s own statement llg the ban “shameful. “My God, what a bate over this, ” said Andy Humm, a longtime -host of “Gay USA, ” a TV news program.

In the past week, he told them, he had received onle msag of hate nsistently om whe gay men, to the extent that his fay feared for his safety. Fisher, who had lled for the vote of no Downey, print of the gay officers group, said he felt “betrayed” by the ban, pecially bee the officers “put so much of themselv on the choppg block” by workg to change practic and attus wh their partments.

HE WAS ONE OF THE NATN’S MOST REVERED GAY PS. HIS ARRT CHANGED EVERYTHG.

Miller/TWP) RIGHT: Parson, shown here 2005, was known natnally and ternatnally as a pneer of gay rights policg.

GAY COPS

’ ”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.

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.

GAY COPS: PRI BEHD THE BADGE

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 .

GAY COP

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.

NYC PRI PARA BANS POLICE; GAY OFFICERS 'DISHEARTENED'

” 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.