Gay men in NYC targeted by NYPD

[ccharles000]

http://www.feministing.com/archives/013987.html

More on this issue from The Advocate:



The Gay City News reports that at least 27 men were arrested for prostitution in eight porn shops in Manhattan in 2008. Since 2004 there have been 52 such arrests in eight difference businesses.

According to a statement by the group, the arrest is usually set up so that an attractive younger officer is sent out to approach middle-aged gay men. The officer allegedly entices the man to have sex. If the man agrees, the undercover officer says he wanted to pay the man for sexual favors, and then, before the man can accept or reject the transaction, he is surrounded by police to make an arrest.


So many issues here: entrapment, homophobic targeting of gay men in video stores, criminalizing people for engaging in consensual sex. The most striking point made in the protest video is that there have been countless acts of violence against queer and trans people in NYC, but this is where the NYPD is putting it's resources.

[marmar]

1. The NYPD seems to do this regularly.......A paen to the pre-Stonewall days?

And if people are getting busy in ADULT video stores, whom exactly are they offending? It's not like they're having sex next to a playground in Central Park or something.
This kind of Gestapo BS is an embarassment. People sunbathe nude in the Tiergarten in Berlin, and discreet sex (in other words, not in front of everyone) is tolerated in Vondelpark in Amsterdam. But in America, you can't even cohabitate in a XXX video cabin. Unreal.

[ccharles000]

2. I agree