Gay Cops

By Stephen Leinen

A ground-breaking study of the lives of gay and lesbian police officers in America, Gay Cops explores the dilemmas and problems facing homosexual cops as they balance the day-to-day realities of their work and their sexual identities.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813520002
• ISBN13: 9780813520001
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Gay Cops...Great Cops

Being a gay cop this was an great and insightful book. Active with the Gay Officers Action League, I had the opportunity to meet Dr. Leinen. I believe this book is required reading, not only for gay cops coming out; but for all law enforcement personnel and administrators.

Gay Cops is right on!

I could not put this book down. Being a gay cop, I found so many of the stories to be helpful in my coming out process. I also found that being gay, and being a cop, do work well together.This is must reading for all cops, straight or gay. We all gain from understanding.

Gay Cops is right on!

I could not put this book down. Being a gay cop, I found so many of the stories to be helpful in my coming out process. I also found that being gay, and being a cop, do work well together.This is must reading for all cops, straight or gay. We all gain from understanding.

Accurate and Real

I am one of the subjects in the book. After reading it, I was impressed with the sincerity that it conveyed as well as the honesty. Many books and articles have been writted on this subject, but they all seem so self justifying. many gay cops need a platform in which to soap box their own opinions. This book allowed all the subjects to be themselves, just people, with real lives, with real problems ( like anyone else). The book did justice to all of those who are in conflict with their own sexuallity/career.