First Openly Gay Couple Joins Boston Police Force

By News on the Net —— Bio and Archives June 18, 2015

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BOSTON (CBS) – Sixty four police recruits graduated from the Boston Police Academy Wednesday and officially logged on as officers. For two openly gay cadets, it represented a profound bit of history.

“It’s not just here come the gay cops, that’s not how we want it to sound to people. We worked hard like everybody else. We scored 100s on the exams,” said James Moccia, whose father and brother are already Boston Police Officers. He and his partner Shawn MacIver are the first openly gay couple to ever graduate from a police academy together. CBS Boston...