Here's the whole history of the badge and othe LASD insignia:
The word gay used to mean joyous and festive once upon a time, until the LGBQT alphabet soup bunch hijacked it...
Sheriff Biscailuz, who is chairman of the gay Uplifters' outing, is shown on Septemer 25, 1937, being greeted with a salaam by U. S. Marshal Robert Clark and others as he is borne around the grounds on a litter by Nubians. Sheriff Biscailuz recently suffered a leg injury.