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Gay and Lesbian Cops:
Diversity and Effective Policing
Roddrick A. Colvin
Roddrick Colvin assesses the impact of lesbian and gay police officers on law enforcement in the US and the UK, as well as the policies that enable a diverse work environment.
Colvin tracks the evolution of police agencies toward organism more "gay friendly" both as employers and as service providers. He also provides insights into the day-to-day barriers and opportunities that lesbian and same-sex attracted officers experience working within organizations that traditionally acquire 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 woman-loving woman and gay 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
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 examine of the lives of gay and lesbian police officers in America. Through revealing interviews, Leinen explores the dilemmas facing queer police officers as they balance the day-to-day realities of their work and sexual identities. Leinen helps the reader to perceive 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 queer and lesbian colleagues and discriminate against them. Attitudes range from uneducated despise 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 same-sex attracted cop's
Gay Cops
Stephen Leinen. Rutgers University Press, $22.95 (245pp) ISBN 978-0-8135-2000-1
In the first book-length study of gay police officers, Leinen, a sociologist, author of Black Police, White Society and a former NYPD lieutenant, reports on the coping and surviving strategies of 41 homosexual New York Town police officers, both male and female. The creator, who is heterosexual and was on the compel when he began this study, attended Gay Officers Action League meetings, dances and gay pride parades. He describes the tense passage from being a law enforcement agent who potentially threatens the secrecy of gay officers still in the closet to being a researcher studying 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
Police at Pride? Gay cops, LGBTQ activists struggle to see eye-to-eye
Just before members of the Gay Officers Action League (GOAL) marched past the Stonewall Inn, the finish line of last year’s New York City Pride March, a small group of activists slipped past the barriers and chained their hands together to prevent the officers from passing, a protest technique called a “lockdown.”
Dozens of cops operational security at the rally surrounded the protesters, and, over shouts of “f--k the police” and “racist, sexist, anti-gay, NYPD, KKK,” began to break through what appeared to be chains and rubber tubes the protesters had used to lock themselves together. Twelve protesters affiliated with the group No Justice No Pride were arrested, and after a little delay, the march continued.
The irony of the incident was not lost on many in the crowd — cops arresting queer 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, Unused York City’s first male lover pride march, which was held on June 28, 1970, was organized to commemorate the one-year anniversary of what has get known as the S
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