Tag: police

All 25-year-old Matthew Furlong wanted to do was “follow in his father’s footsteps” and become a police officer. Two years ago, he applied to join the Cheshire Police Department during a diversity drive. The department was hoping to hire more LGBTQ officers. You know, because diversity is a good thing! There was just one teensy tiny problem. Furlong is not L, G, B, T, or Q. He’s straight. 100% hetero. No homo. Got that? Despite this, he applied for the job anyway and when...

We have an update on the gay men who were recording a gay porn video while taking public transport in London. According to BBC News, George Mason, 35, has been fined £1,000 for recording a threesome in front of passengers while riding the London Underground. One of Mason’s partners, 24-year-old Nicholas Mullan, was also sentenced by the Westminster Magistrates’ Court. Though, Mullan wasn’t fined and instead has to pay £170 and commit 12-months-worth of community service. Meanwhile, the third man in the...

Three thugs are in some deep trouble and the odds are stacked against them. According to Metro News, a gay couple was attacked by a group of men. The victims, aged 28 and 31, were holding hands when they were attacked in the afternoon on New Year’s Day. The two men suffered facial injuries and bruising after being attacked in the South Bank area of London. That said, the injuries were minor and don’t warrant hospital treatment. According to DailyMail, London police...

One police graduation got a beautiful surprise in the form of a marriage proposal. 78 new police officers in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand finished their training with a graduation ceremony last week. As the event for the Wing 315 went on smoothly, Constable Erik Meechan, who was honored with the Commissioner’s Award for Leadership, slowed the program down to ask an important question. The Constable asked his boyfriend of five years, Matty Judd, to step forward. When Judd appeared from the crowd,...

His appointment comes at a time of intense scrutiny around policing methods and policies, both in the city and nationwide For the first time in its more than 70 year history, the San Francisco police union will be lead by an openly gay person. Sergeant Tony Montoya, who has been a cop in the city for 24 years, is taking over the reigns of the San Francisco Police Officers Association (SFPOA) from former president Martin Halloran, who began his term in...

A man who was choked and slammed by a police officer outside a Waffle House says he was also called gay slurs by the staff. News is circulating about 22-year-old Anthony Wall. Right now, everyone’s trying to figure out if race and sexual orientation was the cause of Wall’s arrest and if it even matters at all. On May 4, Wall had arrived at a Waffle House in Warsaw, North Carolina. He had just gotten back from taking his little sister...

“Personally, I do not judge anyone," said Police Commander Parfait Nana. "However, Cameroon has laws to enforce.” Police arrested 25 men on suspicion of homosexuality Friday night in Cameroon, where same-sex activity is punishable by a fine and up to five years in prison. Seven suspects were arrested at Mistral, a gay bar in the capital city of Yaoundé—including a dancer, a waiter, and a security guard. Authorities then raided a gay movie theater in the Emombo neighborhood, picking up an...

A gay couple was leaving a local gay club in the city of Monterrey, in Mexico last week when they were targeted and beaten by police officers based on their sexuality. Armando Ocampo Zambrano and Sergio Eduardo Bueno were finishing off their night of partying at 5 a.m. as they headed to a nearby restaurant. It was then that two police cars chased them and upon arriving at their location were stopped and removed by force by the cops....

Organizers cite tension with LGBT community, including mishandling of the Bruce McArthur serial killer case. Police in Toronto have withdrawn their application to march in the 2018 Toronto Pride parade, ending efforts to appeal a rejection by parade organizers. Toronto Pride initially banned police from marching last year after Black Lives Matter demonstrators interrupted the parade to protest police brutality. The call for a ban intensified in recent months as outrage grew over police’s handling of a serial killer case that...

The original Mardi Gras was marred by arrests and police brutality against LGBTI people Police in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) have raised the rainbow flag for the first time ever. The flag will be raised at the Sydney Police Center every day for a week. The rainbow flag will mark the 40th anniversary of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras is one of the world’s biggest LGBTI festivals and an economic boon for Sydney. It...

“Who told you to get dressed?” In the past week, a disturbing and homophobic video has surfaced of two police officers taunting and humiliating a gay couple in Pieter­maritzburg, South Africa. The video (not shown here, although screen grabs are below) is suspected to have been filmed by the two police officers, who caught the same-sex couple engaging in sexual acts in a car at Camps Drift. The video shows the distraught couple with their pants down trying to cover their genitals,...

A Fort Bliss soldier says he’s the victim of a hate crime. 1st Sgt. Charles William Davis II has spent 19 years in service with the U.S. Army and is currently stationed at Fort Bliss. "I've been to Bosnia, I've been to Iraq and I've been to Afghanistan three times,” he said. Unfortunately, Davis recently experienced what he believes to be a hate crime while in celebration in town. Davis gave KFOX14 his first hand account of the situation. He says he was out...

When you go from a $1 MILLION surplus to a deficit of $500,000, there's a problem. What ever could the problem be for Toronto Pride to have this drastic swing over the past year? The organization’s annual report, which will be presented Wednesday evening at its annual general meeting, outlines a concerning decline in donations and corporate sponsorships year over year. Based on audited financial statements from July, Pride’s revenue from fundraising and donations dropped $678,450 from $758,015 in 2016 to...

A complaint claimed "drug use is thought to be fundamental in such indiscriminate sexual encounters." Four cops in Sydney claim they were singled out for investigation on drug charges simply because they are gay. In early 2015, New South Wales (NSW) police officers Christian McDonald, Christopher Sheehy, Shane Housego, and Steven Rapisarda were told of an anonymous complaint that they had used illegal narcotics. The citation stated the four were “notorious for their promiscuity” and claimed “drug use is thought to be...