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词条 Elliott Blackstone
释义

  1. Early life

  2. LGBT advocacy

  3. Death

  4. See also

  5. Notes

  6. References

  7. External links

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Elliott R. Blackstone (November 30, 1924 – October 25, 2006) was a sergeant in the San Francisco Police Department, known as a longtime advocate for the lesbian, gay and transgender community in that city.

Early life

Born in Aurora, Illinois and raised in Chinook, Montana, Blackstone served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and was honorably discharged. In 1949, he became a San Francisco police officer.{{Citation needed|date=September 2018}} He was a pioneer of what later became known as community policing.[1] In 1962, he was designated as the department's first liaison officer with the "homophile community," as it was then called.[1] Blackstone worked within the police department to change policy and procedures directed against the LGBT community, such as entrapment of gay men in public restrooms.{{Citation needed|date=October 2010}}

LGBT advocacy

Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, Blackstone worked closely with local LGBT activist groups such as the Mattachine Society, Daughters of Bilitis, the Vanguard gay youth group, the National Transsexual Counseling Unit, and the Council on Religion and the Homosexual. Blackstone even took up a collection at his church to buy hormones for transgender people, at a time when city-funded health clinics would not provide hormones to them.

Blackstone was also involved in many other church and community activities, and taught community policing courses at the College of Marin. At his retirement dinner in 1975, he was saluted by LGBT community leaders for his advocacy and support. In 2005, an interview with Blackstone was featured in Screaming Queens, a documentary about the 1966 Compton's Cafeteria riot.[2] According to one source,[1]

At the 2005 world premiere at the Castro Theater, Blackstone received a standing ovation from a sold-out crowd of more than 1000 people, when he answered an audience member's question; asked why, as a straight man, he had worked so hard on behalf of LGBT rights, he said, "Because my religion teaches me to love everybody."

In June, 2006 Blackstone received commendations for his longtime advocacy work from the California State Senate, the California State Assembly, the San Francisco Police Commission, and the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. The Pride Foundation of San Francisco named him Lifetime Achievement Grand Marshal for the 2006 Gay Pride Parade.{{Citation needed|date=October 2010}}

Death

Blackstone died of a stroke in 2006.[3]

See also

{{Portal|Biography|San Francisco Bay Area}}
  • Compton's Cafeteria riot

Notes

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References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061128152033/http://www.comptonscafeteriariot.org/blackstone.html|title=Compton's Cafeteria Riot - Elliott Blackstone|date=2006-11-28|access-date=2018-09-30}}
2. ^{{Citation|last=KQED Arts|first=|title=Screaming Queens|date=2016-07-21|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-WASW9dRBU|volume=|pages=|access-date=2018-09-30}}
3. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Elliott-Blackstone-police-liaison-for-LGBT-2546262.php|title=Elliott Blackstone - police liaison for LGBT community|last=|first=|date=November 17, 2006|work=|access-date=October 14, 2016|via=}}

External links

  • Obituary of Sgt. Blackstone, San Francisco Chronicle
  • Elliot Blackstone interview by Susan Stryker (1996)
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20061010094454/http://www.comptonscafeteriariot.org/blackstone.html Compton's Cafeteria riot web site]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20061012022347/http://www.sfpride.org/media/prarchive/pr050206.html "San Francisco Pride Announces Sergeant Elliot Blackstone Lifetime Achievement Grand Marshal"]
  • "Pride Parade Salute for an Unlikely Ally," San Francisco Chronicle
  • {{YouTube|oqR9DV29JH0|Commendation of Sgt. Blackstone at site of riots, and dedication of granite plaque set into the sidewalk}}
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