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Monday, June 28, 1999
NYPD finally pays homage to gay officers
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
NEW YORK, JUNE 27: Thirty years after the Stonewall riots here that marked the coming out of the American gay rights movement, the New York Police Department paid homage to its gay and lesbian officers on Friday. ``The change is incredible, and kind of ironic,''said Lieutenant Donald Jirak, president of the Gay Officers Action League (GOAL).``Thirty years ago, cops started the whole thing when they beat up gay patrons at the Stonewall,'' a gay bar in Greenwich Village where for the first time in 1969 customers rebelled against a police raid. ``And here we are today, in the main auditorium of (NYPD HQ), and the police commissioner is a speaker at the ceremony,'' Jirak said. Gay city council members also issued a proclamation to honour gay police officers. Copyright © 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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