Backing into the closet in the Police
1995
"I wasn't out in the Police - I
found myself going more back in the closet because of the attitude. If anybody
was camp or effeminate even if they were straight or married it was picked upon
by a few people. I just thought, ‘No, this isn't going to work’. I could tell
some people's attitudes were fine, those who had been to university didn't have
a problem. I was 23,24 at the time, the youngest person at the station. I joined
with an ex-Navy guy, quite the lad, drinking, liked the ladies so there was this
comparison between me and him because we were similar age. I thought, it wasn’t
going to work at the station I was stationed at at that time; it was full of
community beat officers who were quite old and staid in their ways."
Contributed by: Derek, 35