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Community Groups To Rally Following Death Of Gay Man In Police Custody
Community groups are calling for the end of police as first responders in mental health crises, accompanying the death of gay man Collin Burling during a welfare check earlier in the week.
Burling died after organism restrained by police during a mental health-related crisis at his Waterloo apartment complex early on Tuesday morning.
Footage taken by Burling’s spouse, Taite Collins, shows four police officers pinning him to the ground, as he calls for help and tells police he was unable to breathe.
“I’m not a threat,” Burling can be heard saying. “Help me.”
Burling went into cardiac arrest and was unable to be revived.
Action for Public Housing emissary Rachel Evans said Burling&#;s death was not an isolated incident.
&#;This is a pattern. In the last five years, more than 55 people experiencing grave mental distress were killed in interactions with police.”
In July , year-old Jesse Deacon suffered an acute breakdown in his Glebe general housing home. A well-meaning neighbour rang emergency services and
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Out of the Past: Local LGBTQ History Is Full of Surprises
The source story of San Diego’s LGBTQ community isn’t quite what you might await. Queer life didn’t begin in Hillcrest, one of the most vibrant “gayborhoods” in the United States, nor did it even begin in modern times.
Gay men, lesbians, and even transgender people were prominent members of local population long before anyone ever flew a pride flag or marched in a pride parade.
“Sexual and gender diversity has always been with us. It’s vital to know that they were there, that we didn’t invent this. It’s just within the human spirit,” said La Jolla historian Lilian Faderman.
There’s plenty more unexpected history in our city’s LGBT past. In honor of San Diego Pride, here’s a look back:
Early Same-Sex Couples Left a Big Legacy
The legacies of a pair of Victorian-era same-sex couples live on in our public beaches and the landmark Villa Montezuma house.
A internationally known spiritualist/musician named Jesse Shepard and his “secretary” Lawrence W. Tonner landed in San Diego in the late s and built Vi
Everytime I visit Ohio, I’m reminded of how nice it would be to live here. But as a Black gay dude living with HIV, I often ask myself, “Is Ohio harmless for me?”
By “safe,” I’m not thinking about homophobia. I’m concerned about Ohio’s HIV criminalization laws, which can send a person living with HIV to prison if they don’t disclose their serostatus before having sex.
Knowing that HIV criminalization cases in Ohio have been on the increase, particularly among Black gay men, I decided to test out how it might feel to live here in the gayest way possible: By seeing how men on gay hook-up apps treat me as a person living with the virus. Though it’s possible to share your serostatus on hook up apps, I decided to hide mine and see how people responded to me after I joint my HIV status with them.
I made a point of disclosing my HIV status before conference up with anyone by writing, “Before we go any further, you should know that I am living with HIV. I am undetectable and healthy, but wanted to make sure you were okay with that before we met.”
Based on initial social interaction on the app