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sel:
Wearing his uniform for the contest shots I agree wasn't the right thing to do, that applies to anyone. IMO for him at the time that didn't seem a problem as he didn't think he'd win.
After the event was reported on the news he has appeared as a guest on important TV programmes to support the gay cause. His aim is to form an Italian gay police support group.
jstephens9:
--- Quote from: milomorris on April 09, 2009, 01:43:20 pm ---Good effort, but slightly off target. If he wants to change Italian's minds about sexual minorities, appearing on the cover of a gay magazine isn't going to have much effect because most of the readers are gay--preaching to the choir. What would have a greater impact is to appear on a mainstream magazine cover.
And why oh why didn't clear the uniform usage beforehand??
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Good point Milo! The impact would have been greater on a mainstream magazine cover. I think in ways it would be hard to be a cop and gay on both fronts. The police force does not seem to be the best place to be gay and I will add that about the fire department as well. However, as I discovered this past summer, there are many gay people who apparently have a big problem with the police. This must stem from many, many years ago with things like the riots in San Francisco and New York. I know I was confronted in the Castro area because I was wearing a Dallas police department tshirt. This man was very angry that I would wear something like that in Castro and he let me know that things like that were not tolerated there. He kept following me around confronting me about it until I finally told him to go on and leave me alone. So the Castro area is my least favorite part of San Francisco. I was wearing the shirt because I have a friend who is on the DPD. I was not making a statement about anything. This past summer I mentioned this instance to someone and I created quite an argument concerning how horrible the police are and how they are always out to hurt and discriminate against gay people. Obviously this is a generalization similar to the one about all gay people act like the stereotype. However, there was no changing this person's mind about that.
milomorris:
--- Quote from: jstephens9 on April 10, 2009, 08:52:04 am ---However, as I discovered this past summer, there are many gay people who apparently have a big problem with the police. This must stem from many, many years ago with things like the riots in San Francisco and New York. I know I was confronted in the Castro area because I was wearing a Dallas police department tshirt. This man was very angry that I would wear something like that in Castro and he let me know that things like that were not tolerated there. He kept following me around confronting me about it until I finally told him to go on and leave me alone. So the Castro area is my least favorite part of San Francisco. I was wearing the shirt because I have a friend who is on the DPD. I was not making a statement about anything. This past summer I mentioned this instance to someone and I created quite an argument concerning how horrible the police are and how they are always out to hurt and discriminate against gay people.
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I know what you mean. I hear that same bullshit from certain black people. Not surprisingly, they are the blacks that are in/of the ghetto. And the Castro is a huge gay ghetto. The bottom line is that if you're nose is clean, you have nothing to fear from police.
jstephens9:
--- Quote from: milomorris on April 10, 2009, 10:41:26 pm ---I know what you mean. I hear that same bullshit from certain black people. Not surprisingly, they are the blacks that are in/of the ghetto. And the Castro is a huge gay ghetto. The bottom line is that if you're nose is clean, you have nothing to fear from police.
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Exactly Milo. Good point.
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