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  title info:
    title: Coming out of the Blue
    sub title: British police officers talk about their lives in "The job" as lesbians, gays, and bisexuals
  name:
    name part: Burke, Marc E.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 1993
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 259 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "'I remember when I first thought I might be gay. There was this toilet on our ground that I'd heard was used by gays. I would sometimes hang around in the hope of seeing what homosexuals looked like. Anyway, I didn't really see many but I realize now that probably had something to do with the fact that I was standing across the road in full uniform.'" "Much has been written about homosexuality and the police; Coming Out of the Blue tackles the delicate and contentious issues around homosexuality in the police. Through interviews with lesbian, gay and bisexual officers, this ground-breaking study provides rare insights into two of society's most controversial and most interesting communities." "Officers from various forces, departments and ranks of the British police, many of them members of the new Lesbian and Gay Police Association (LAGPA), speak out for the first time on topics such as coming out, equal opportunities, cruising, cottaging and queerbashing. This rare material poses difficult questions such as: Which community, if any, has the loyalty of these officers? How does living a double life affect personal and professional relationships? Is the situation worse for women?" "This book is written in the hope that both the police and the lesbian and gay community might learn something of the problems they each face and give recognition to those lesbian, gay and bisexual officers who, belonging to the two communities, are often comprehended by neither and persecuted by both."--BOOK JACKET.
  table of contents: Foreword / Alison Halford -- 1. Sketches -- 2. Selection and Training -- 3. Cruising, Cottaging and Queerbashing -- 4. Lovers -- 5. Heterosexual Homosexuals -- 6. Pubbing and Clubbing -- 7. Two Communities, Double Lives -- 8. Coming Out -- 9. Prejudice and Discrimination -- 10. Casualties -- 11. A Unique Contribution? -- 12. Equal Opportunities -- 13. The Lesbian and Gay Police Association -- App. A Police Rank Structure -- App. B A Comparison of Equal Opportunities Statements -- App. C Extracts from Home Office Circular 87/1989, 'Equal opportunities policies in the police service' -- App. D Age of Consent Laws in Council of Europe Countries in 1993 -- App. E Gay Police International.
  note: Marc E. Burke.
  note: The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
  note: Purchased for the Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies collection by The Cushing Library.
  note: Also issued online.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-256) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    topic: Gay police officers
    geographic: Great Britain
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Police
    geographic: Great Britain
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Gay police officers
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    topic: Polizeibeamter
  subject:
    topic: Homosexualität
  subject:
    topic: Erlebnisbericht
  subject:
    geographic: Grossbritannien
  subject:
    topic: Police
  subject:
    topic: Homosexuals
  classification: HV8195.A2 B875 1993
  classification: 363.2/08/664
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Coming out of the Blue
    name:
      name part: Burke, Marc E.
    origin info:
      publisher: London ; New York, NY : Cassell, 1993
    identifier: (OCoLC)622010739
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cassell lesbian and gay studies
  identifier: 0304327166
  identifier: 9780304327164
  identifier: 030432714X
  identifier: 9780304327140
  identifier: 93005201
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190102
    record change date: 20190116152659.0
    record identifier: in00004028270
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng