Chicago Sun-Times last week.Beginning in the mid-1980s, Lipman had a 30-year career with the Chicago police, during which she “rose from patrol officer to commander of the public transportation unit,” the Sun-Times reports.She supported fellow LGBTQ+ officers through the Lesbian Gay Police Association-Gay Officers Action League of Chicago and in 1991 became one of the first supervisors to ride on the police department float in the city’s Pride parade. “It was a huge thing,” Detective Jamie Richardson, president of the LGBTQ+ police group, told the paper. “Not too many bosses would be on the float.”She recalled dealing with homophobia early in her career.