Besieged Suisun City chief says he's gay Disclosure comes amid allegations of misconduct

SFGate.Com ^ | December 14, 2002 | Ray Delgado, Chronicle Staff Writer

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Small-town police chiefs normally don't spend much time in the spotlight, but Suisun City's Ron Forsythe has gotten more than his share lately.

Although credited with buffing up the tarnished reputation of a city plagued by crime, he recently has seen his department's morale plummet.

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Forsythe, 45, who began his career as a police department dispatcher in 1977 and held every position until becoming chief in 1993

and some positions never before conceived for a police chief...

[Enterprise]

He got regular promotions doncha know - it's not who you know, it's who you......

[Monti Cello]

"I did this to protect myself from rumors and people responding to rumors,"

Truthful version:

"I did this to inoculate myself against criticism of any kind"

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he held every position until becoming chief in 1993

I'll say.

[Mark]

Pssst-- Trent Lott is gay-- pass it on.

[expatpat]

Smart move. Now he can claim the homosexual version of racism when they prosecute him!

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Naturally.

PING

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him the first openly gay police chief in the country.

This article IS news!
Actually I'm shocked that this story implies that some of the police chiefs
in cities around the Bay Area might be...gasp...heterosexual.

Now, that IS a press shocker.

[Consort]

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Thanks for the ping.

From the article:

"It really shows the entering of a new age," said Jon Davidson, senior counsel at Lambda Legal, a national gay rights organization that counseled Forsythe after he asked for legal advice prior to coming out.

I'll say. An age where some folks think it is perfectly okay for a man to "hump another man's rectum" as freeper yendu bwam occassionally says and an age where the rest of us get to pay higher health insurance premiums due to the extremely unhealthy risks associated with said behavior. I just noticed my health insurance premiums are 9% higher starting in January, 2003.

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Whoops. You were dropped from my ping list by accident.

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I must need a vacation or something. I forgot to ping the index as well.

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Have you heard any thing about this

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Pssst-- Trent Lott is gay-- pass it on.

Pssst-- Trent Lott's a dumb@$$-- pass it on.