Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Sam Ciccone, 1992.
Creator: | Ciccone, Sam, 1944-2015 | Project: | Gay Officers Action League oral history collection (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | Transcript 83 pages Sound recording 3 audiocassettes | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NotePolice Officer, Playwright
Scope and Contentsb. 1994; childhood: Bergen County, NJ and Brooklyn, NY, Italian immigrant family, struggle to assimilate; left home 1960, luncheonette job; New York Police Department (NYPD), 1965-1979: attraction to power, resistance to NYPD corruption, first homosexual experience; Hope College, Holland, Michigan, 1966: first homosexual affair; return to NYPD: shame, secrecy, paranoia, memory of Stonewall, NYPD violence and corruption; GOAL: 1982 formation, NYPD negative reactions, un-closeting of board, incorporation of women and minorities, 1983 march in Gay Pride parade, Policemen's Benevolent Association attempts to exclude gays from NYPD, attempts to exclude GOAL from police umbrella groups, expansion, accomplishments: education, solidarity between races, sexes, sexual orientations, sensitivity training
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1992
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