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Gay and Lesbian Cops:
Diversity and Efficient Policing
Roddrick A. Colvin
Roddrick Colvin assesses the impact of sapphic and gay police officers on statute enforcement in the US and the UK, as adequately as the policies that enable a diverse work environment.
Colvin tracks the evolution of police agencies toward entity 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 homosexual officers experience operational within organizations that traditionally have been hostile to them. Integrating quantitative and qualitative research, he offers a compelling demonstration that police agencies can finest fulfill their missions when they are representative of the communities they serve.
Roddrick A. Colvin is associate professor of public administration at San Diego Mention University.
"A comprehensive overview of lesbian and gay issues in law enforcement in the United States and the Merged Kingdom."—Warren S. Weller, International Public Leadership Journal
"A 'must read' for any scholar or practitioner interested in collective 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 few of the problems plaguing queer cops. Gay Cops is a ground-breaking study of the lives of queer 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 hear 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 gay and woman-loving woman colleagues and discriminate against them. Attitudes range from uneducated dislike to worry of contracting AIDS from a bleeding partner. The contempt for homosexuals traditionally expressed by police often intensifies a homosexual cop's meaning 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 chime as a "disidentifier"; and engaging in sexist talk to fool others can wreak havoc on a gay cop's
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 productive security at the parade 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 terse 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, Modern 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 develop known as the S
Gay Cops
Stephen Leinen. Rutgers University Urge , $22.95 (245pp) ISBN 978-0-8135-2000-1
In the first book-length study of queer police officers, Leinen, a sociologist, author of Black Police, Ivory Society and a former NYPD lieutenant, reports on the coping and surviving strategies of 41 homosexual New York City police officers, both male and female. The author, who is heterosexual and was on the pressure when he began this research , attended Gay Officers Action League meetings, dances and gay self-acceptance parades. He describes the tense passage from being a rule enforcement agent 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