Word: gay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite his ten years in the Boston Fire Department, Robert Jackson has not been promoted to the rank of officer merely because he is gay, the firefighter claimed. Jackson also said he is not allowed to eat with other firemen in the department because of his homosexuality...
...veteran firefighter also maintained that he has been the object of overt harassment, receiving an Playgirl centerfold of a nude man, a pamphlet on AIDS and an anti-gay taped on his locker...
Based on this and other evidence of harassment of gays and lesbians in the city, Scondras' office prepared a set of recommendations that would enable the city to "improve relations between the Police department and Boston's gay and lesbian community...
Some of these include actively encouraging gay lesbian applicants to the police force, making investigation of homophobic violence a duty of the Police Department's Committee on Public Disorders, eliminating questionnaires on sexual orientation and supporting an extensive training program to teach police how to recognize homophobic violence and how to prevent...
...report also s tatted that the city should work with the Fenway Community Health Center, Which has an extensive Gay and Lesbian Victim Recovery Program, to encourage documentation of acts of violence against gays and lesbians...