https://archives.rainbowhistory.org/files/original/764fde003514c7c1fb6581f85735a46b.pdf b102f78f364db5029696e9b9d118003f PDF Text Text A discussion on the historic intersection between the LGBTQ+ community and the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, DC, with Earline Budd, Craig Howell, Mindy Daniels, Dee Curry, Brett Parson, and Rayceen Pendarvis. �Rainbow History Project Our mission is to collect, preserve, and promote an active knowledge of the history, arts, and culture relevant to sexually diverse communities in metropolitan Washington DC. Please visit our website for more information about our organization and how to make a donation of historical items or funds to support our efforts. www.rainbowhistory.org Rainbow History Project P.O. Box 73176 Washington, DC 20056 �A NOTE ABOUT TONIGHT’S PROGRAM As we gather tonight, we come with the understanding that there might be dissonance related to a topic and panel such as this one. As we prepare to engage in conversation around LGBTQ+ people and the police, we acknowledge that this relationship has not always been a positive one - and to many, a relationship is still lacking. From the 2016 FBI hate crimes statistics, the Human Rights Campaign reported that thousands of law enforcement agencies across the country did not submit hate crimes data, and 88% simply indicated that no hate crimes had occurred in their city. Given our own lived experiences, we know this is not the case. Historically, police enforced anti-LGBTQ+ laws that banned “homosexual acts,” cops raided bars and gathering spaces for LGBTQ+ people, and LGBTQ+ people often resorted to policing themselves as a result of explicit dismissal from officers. While police forces, including the Metropolitan Police Department, have created units and divisions within their ranks, LGBTQ+ people have traditionally had little or no agency when it comes to laws impacting our communities, neighborhoods, and society at large. And despite these internal affinity groups, we know that many LGBTQ+ people still face significant discrimination as a result of police force(s) and policing. While we engage in tonight’s panel in the spirit of capturing where we have come from with regard to this topic, we do not engage in a way that minimizes or dismisses the real threat toward and against LGBTQ+ people that continues today. Thank you for being here tonight. We look forward to a thoughtful and important conversation ahead. �TONIGHT’S PROGRAM 6:30-8:30 pm Panel discussion of the history of the relationship between the LGBTQ+ community and the police Moderator Rayceen Pendarvis Panelists Earline Budd Dee Curry Mindy Daniels Craig Howell Brett Parson 8:30-9 pm Post-Panel Reception If you have questions for the panel, please submit your questions in writing on cards provided at the reception desk. If you enjoy tonight’s history panel, consider making a donation to Rainbow History Project to support future LGBTQ+ history events. �OUR PANELISTS Earline Budd Earline Budd is a 60-year-old transgender woman constantly fighting to make a difference in the lives of transgender people and other members of the lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGBT) community. Earline works as a Non-Medical Case Manager at Helping Individual People Survive, (HIPS) in Washington DC, serving 
 transgender, lesbian, gay/bisexual and other individuals. She is one of the founding members and former Executive Director of Transgender Health Empowerment, Inc. founded in 1996. Earline is the Executive Director of Empowering the Transgender Community ETC, a new grassroots 501c(3) non-profit organization which will provide an array of services for Transgender people in the DC area. ETC’s mission is striving to serve, empower, support and save lives daily. For more than 20 years, Earline has been a consultant to local and national organizations concerned with cultural sensitivity in working with transgender people. Some of the trainings have been for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMPSA), The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), the Pennsylvania Mid Atlantic Training Center, the DC Department of Health, DC Department of Corrections, DC Crime Victim Program, The Community Partnership for the Prevention of Homelessness, DC shelter providers, and many others. Earline has over 25 years of experience in working with these special populations and those struggling with substance abuse, mental health, homelessness and HIV/AIDS. Earline has two years of college and is eager to continue her education in social work. Earline is one of the District of Columbia's first transgender women to serve as a Commissioner in the Office of Human Rights. Earline also serves as a liaison to the DC Department of Corrections on transgender issues, and is a member of the Department of Corrections Transgender Advisory Committee. Earline was selected by the District of Columbia Recovery Advisory Council (DCRAC) as their first recipient for the Purple Wave Community Service Award on September 24, 2016. Earline describes her everyday hobby as wanting to just "Help Some Body." �Dee Curry Dee Curry is a long time community member and volunteer. She is a native Washingtonian and has lived in DC for 95% of her life. She is a staunch advocate and civil rights activist. She believes that ALL LIVES MATTER. She was recently sworn in as a member of the Street Harassment Board under the current DC mayor. She has been a member of the Ryan White Planning Council and she was one of the Transgender leaders responsible for founding Transgenders Against Discrimination and Defamation (TADD). She is currently organizing and promoting a wellness initiative for Washington, DC called Solutions2Wellness/And Still I Rise. This initiative culminates in an annual wellness conference in November. She is currently a member of the Anti-Violence Project. The purpose of this project is to give victims of violence a platform that fosters recovery and healing. She has a long, storied and "complicated" history with the Metropolitan Police Department. Although that relationship has not always been the best, it is continuing to grow. They, and we, still have much work to do. Mindy Daniels Mindy is originally from New York and relocated to the DC area as a researcher with Time Life Books. She obtained her law degree from the George Washington University National Law Center and then turned her attention to LGBT issues, fighting for equal rights and protections under the law for her community. A member of the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA), she served as an officer for several years and in 1991 became the second woman to lead GLAA. While President, Mindy was heavily engaged in the campaigns that created domestic partnership legislation and the long awaited reform of the District’s sodomy laws. At the same time, a surge in violent homophobic incidents in the city and issues of police policy, highlighted by a police raid on a gay club and a near riot during the 1992 High Heel Drag Race, created a need for dialogue and policy making with the Metropolitan Police Department. For several years, Mindy served as a liaison between the LGBT community and local prosecutors and law enforcement. To help protect the large numbers of men being arrested and convicted for indecent exposure or engaging in same-sex public displays of their attractions, Mindy �convinced prosecutors to extend the lesser penalty of diversion and community service to first-time offenders. She convinced judges to include sexual orientation in judicial surveys regarding bias in the court system. Mindy worked with Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV) to pressure police and prosecutors to stop their foot dragging in implementing the city’s BiasRelated Crimes Act of 1989. To bring greater attention to the issues involving violence against LGBT persons she initiated Walk Without Fear. On November 15th, 1991, Mindy rallied more than 600 people at Dupont Circle to remember local victims of bias-related crimes and create a public outcry for police and prosecutors to put teeth into the law by including the words “bias-related” in charging documents. Walk Without Fear became an annual event through the 1990s. Mindy herself was the victim of a bias-related crime. The tragic death of Tyra Hunter, a transgender woman who was denied treatment by the city’s EMS department in 1995, and the blatant discrimination within the Fire/EMS Department against diversity trainer Kenda Kirby based on Kirby’s sexual orientation and personal appearance, drew Mindy’s involvement. Kirby was hired in 2003 as part of a civil settlement in Hunter’s death but was harassed and blatantly discriminated against during her one-year tenure, prompting a five- yearlong lawsuit against the Department that was handled by Mindy and ultimately won. She has been the recipient of several community service awards, including Capital Pride Hero and was named a Pioneer by the Rainbow History Project in 2009. Craig Howell Craig Howell is a native Washingtonian who has lived virtually his entire life in the Metro DC area. He attended St. Anselm's Abbey High School in Northeast Washington and then graduated from Georgetown University in 1967 with a degree in economics. He was drafted into the Army in 1969 and spent most of his twoyear stint successfully preventing Viet Cong attacks in West Germany, for which service he was awarded the Army Commendation Medal. He worked for many years at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, specializing in the economic interpretation of inflation data. In 1994, he accepted an offer for early retirement from the federal civil service, after helping to secure a new anti-discrimination policy from the Department of Labor that explicitly banned employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. �Craig joined what was then known as the Gay Activists Alliance of Washington (now the Gay & Lesbian Activists Alliance or GLAA) in October 1973 and became GLAA's Vice President under President Cade Ware a few months later. He came out to one and all in September 1974 when he testified before the D.C. City Council denouncing homophobic policies and practices by the Metropolitan Police Department and was subsequently interviewed by several local television stations. That same year he helped to spearhead GLAA's Elections Project, as GLAA rated every candidate for Mayor and Council. The following year he and his GLAA colleagues successfully lobbied the newly-elected Council to abolish the MPD's homophobic Prostitution, Perversion & Obscenity (PPO) Squad and secured $50,000 city government funding for what was then called the Gay Men's VD Clinic. Craig appeared before the Council in July 1975 in support of legislation that would have recognized same-sex marriages in the District--which wound up as a rare legislative defeat. Craig served as GLAA President from October 1975 through September 1976. In 1977 and 1978, Craig was active in the efforts first to enact the Human Rights Act of 1977 and then to defend it against an aggressive drive to repeal it via the initiative process. Ultimately this led to the enactment of legislation in 1979 to prohibit initiative or referendum votes that would be inconsistent with our Human Rights Act. In 1978, Craig was personally asked by Mayor Barry to compile a roster of openly gay men and lesbians willing and able to serve on the District's various boards & commissions that Mayor Barry could appoint. Craig was involved with legislation establishing the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) in 1980. In the late 70s and early 80s, Craig concentrated much of his energy on the effort to persuade the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council to recognize the Nazi persecution of homosexual men as an integral part of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, then in its initial planning stages. Craig led GLAA's efforts to secure bigger budgets to reduce the massive case backlog at what is now known as the Office of Human Rights. Ultimately, this led to the establishment of OHR as an independent agency in the 1990s and the taming of its chronic backlog. After the CCRB was prematurely abolished by the Council in the mid-90s, Craig and others in GLAA worked with other civil liberties groups to create a new agency with strengthened powers, the Office of Police Complaints. Craig also serves as President of the Chrysalis Arts & Culture Group of Washington and as Woods (i.e., Hiking) Coordinator for the Adventuring LGBTQ+ Outdoors Club. In 2007 the Rainbow History Project named him a Gay Pioneer. �Brett Parson Brett Parson has been serving the Metropolitan Police Department, in Washington D.C, (MPDC) for nearly 25 years and involved in Law Enforcement for over 30 years. He is currently assigned to the Executive Office of the Chief of Police, where he oversees the department's Special Liaison Branch. He returned to this position in December 2017, after a short detail to the Metropolitan Police Department's Academy. Until April 2016, he was assigned to MPDC's Patrol Services Bureau, in the city’s Sixth District, where he supervised the evening shift. Prior to returning to patrol in September of 2009, he was assigned to the Executive Office of the Chief of Police, where he commanded the department's Special Liaison Unit (SLU) and was an assistant to Chief Cathy Lanier. Under Parson's command were the department's four core liaison units (LGBT, Latino, Asian, and Deaf and Hard of Hearing). Even after leaving the Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit (GLLU), he continued to speak publicly regarding GLBT issues, and trains law enforcement in ways to better serve the GLBTQ+ communities. Community members, law enforcement and the media have recognized him as a national leader in GLBTQ-Police relations. Brett is nationally and internationally recognized as a resource for investigations involving crimes by, and against the GLBTQ communities and he has spoken and taught in several other countries on the subject of providing diverse policing, hate/bias crime enforcement and investigations and intimate partner violence. In recognition of this unique work, the GLLU was named the winner of the 2006 Innovations in American Government Award, by Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government – Ashe Institute. Brett received his B.A. (Criminal Justice/Spanish) from the University of Maryland at College Park (Go Terps!). From 1991-1993 he pursued his M.A. at the same school, studying Criminal Justice and Counseling. He is a certified POST instructor in DC and Maryland. A native Washingtonian and current resident, Brett's parents still live in the area, allowing him to unwind with family and lifelong friends. �Rayceen Pendarvis Rayceen Pendarvis is an emcee, columnist, social media personality, community advocate, former Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner, and lifelong Washingtonian. Rayceen is host of The Ask Rayceen Show (first Wednesdays, March through November, at HRC), a series of mixers (“Rayceen, Fix Me Up!”), monthly Reel Affirmations film screenings, and regularly hosts events in conjunction with The DC Center for the LGBT Community, DC Public Library, and DC Office on Aging. In addition to a column in SWERV magazine, Rayceen is a frequent contributor to EFNIKS.com and the magazines The Unleashed Voice and Q Virginia. Rayceen is also a co-host of The SWERV Show, which can be seen on ListenVisionLive.com every Wednesday at 10pm. Known as the Queen of the Shameless Plug, the High Priestess of Love, and the Goddess of DC, Rayceen has received numerous honors for nearly forty years of community service. Some of Rayceen’s most recent recognitions include being a Capital Pride Hero in 2016, a finalist in the Excellence in the Humanities category of the Mayor’s Arts Awards in 2017, and receiving three nominations (Best Local Influencer, Best Clergy, Best Transgender Advocate) in the Washington Blade’s Best of Gay DC Readers’ Choice Awards 2018. Earlier this year, Rayceen was named one of the Washington Blade’s Most Eligible Singles. For more information about Rayceen Pendarvis, Team Rayceen, and The Ask Rayceen Show, please visit Rayceen.com, TeamRayceen.eventbrite.com, and AskRayceen.com � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Description An account of the resource A discussion on the historic intersection between the LGBTQ+ community and the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, DC with Mindy Daniels, Dee Curry, and Brett Parson, moderated by Rayceen Pendarvis. Craig Howell and Earline Budd were unable to attend. <br /><br /><strong>WATCH ONLINE</strong> <br /><a href="https://youtu.be/CURKHzzHqOU" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">RHP YouTube Channel</a> Advocacy groups Community Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA) Metropolitan Police Department Police Trans rights