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PS Gay Pride Parade 3 for 1 (5051)

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Riverside County Sheriff's department contingent AND Fantasy Springs Casino (Cabazon Band of Mission Indians) Entry AND prominent display on the Casino float celebrating the 45th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.

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 Clint
Clint
It's good to see law enforcement participating and getting into the mood, but I'll bet this is a weird sight for people with a better memory of the Stonewall riots than I have. It would be an irony I'd enjoy photographing, at least.
9 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to Clint
It's still ironic. We (gays) started having relatively positive relations with police fairly on in the movement, partly out of increasing acceptance by police of the need to arrest for 'fag bashing' . At the same time, though, police departments around the country and even here in Riverside county still occasionally practice entrapment, still publicly release names of entrapped gay men who are arrested on minor sexual offences but don't do the same on straight men in similar arrests, or are part of the security operations that periodically place levels of enforcement on gay bars that aren't placed on straight bars. My experience with individual cops are typically relatively okay, it's usually some homophobe higher up or an elected official wanting easy press about being 'tough on crime.' Shifting tone entirely.... at least some cops are good 'eye candy' in the parades.......
9 years ago.

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