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Gay Cops
Rude graffiti, sexually explicit drawings in their lockers, harassing phone calls - these are a limited of the problems plaguing gay cops. Gay Cops is a ground-breaking explore of the lives of gay and lesbian police officers in America. Through revealing interviews, Leinen explores the dilemmas facing gay police officers as they balance the day-to-day realities of their work and sexual identities. Leinen helps the reader to catch their voices - sometimes emotional and poignant, often defiant or humorous, and always engaging. Though official police policy may be to recruit homosexuals, most police officers resent the presence of their same-sex attracted and lesbian colleagues and discriminate against them. Attitudes range from uneducated abhor to fear of contracting AIDS from a bleeding partner. The contempt for homosexuals traditionally expressed by police often intensifies a homosexual cop's sense of inferiority and social exclusion. For gay cops, the issue is whether or not to "come out" at work and to which people. Living a life of secrecy and lies at work; wearing a wedding ring as a "disidentifier"; and engaging in sexist talk to fool others can wreak havoc on a lgbtq+ cop's
Police at Pride? Same-sex attracted cops, LGBTQ activists struggle to watch eye-to-eye
Just before members of the Same-sex attracted Officers Action League (GOAL) marched past the Stonewall Inn, the finish line of last year’s New York Urban area Pride March, a small group of activists slipped past the barriers and chained their hands together to avoid the officers from passing, a rally technique called a “lockdown.”
Dozens of cops working security at the march surrounded the protesters, and, over shouts of “f--k the police” and “racist, sexist, anti-gay, NYPD, KKK,” began to split through what appeared to be chains and rubber tubes the protesters had used to bar themselves together. Twelve protesters affiliated with the group No Justice No Celebration were arrested, and after a terse delay, the rally continued.
The irony of the incident was not lost on many in the crowd — cops arresting gay people in front of the Stonewall Inn, the very place where homophobic police brutality sparked the modern LGBTQ rights movement nearly five decades years prior. In fact, Fresh York City’s first gay pride pride, which was held on June 28, 1970, was organized to commemorate the one-year anniversary of what has develop known as the S
Gay and Lesbian Cops:
Diversity and Effective Policing
Roddrick A. Colvin
Roddrick Colvin assesses the impact of woman-loving woman and gay police officers on law enforcement in the US and the UK, as successfully as the policies that allow a diverse work environment.
Colvin tracks the evolution of police agencies toward being more "gay friendly" both as employers and as service providers. He also provides insights into the day-to-day barriers and opportunities that homosexual woman and gay officers experience operational within organizations that traditionally own been hostile to them. Integrating quantitative and qualitative research, he offers a compelling demonstration that police agencies can best fulfill their missions when they are representative of the communities they serve.
Roddrick A. Colvin is associate professor of public administration at San Diego State University.
"A comprehensive overview of lesbian and lgbtq+ issues in law enforcement in the United States and the United Kingdom."—Warren S. Weller, International Public Management Journal
"A 'must read' for any scholar or practitioner interested in community policing, whether it be for implementation or purely academic purpo
Gay Cops
Stephen Leinen. Rutgers University Press, $22.95 (245pp) ISBN 978-0-8135-2000-1
In the first book-length study of homosexual police officers, Leinen, a sociologist, composer of Black Police, White Society and a former NYPD lieutenant, reports on the coping and surviving strategies of 41 homosexual Brand-new York City police officers, both male and female. The author, who is heterosexual and was on the drive when he began this study, attended Gay Officers Activity League meetings, dances and gay celebration parades. He describes the tense corridor from being a law enforcement spook who potentially threatens the secrecy of gay officers still in the closet to being a researcher observing their lifestyle. Academic jargon (``deviantized minority groups'' and `` `inner-closeted' group'') mars an otherwise intriguing account. Leinen often allows these cops to speak for themselves about coming out to each other, to their heterosexual colleagues and to their families. (Oct.)
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Reviewed on: 10/04/1993
Genre: Nonfiction