Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Update--Sexual Harassment Concerns

One of my biggest concerns about sexual harassment against me in the police project has had to do with a woman who told people I was gay and they were trying to force me to "come out."  The police and their contacts, including hospital people and film/TV people, have been involved at times.  In some of my blog posts, I was telling that I had asked the above woman to acknowledge that she made up the story about me and she has failed to respond, so far.  But the woman, herself, is only part of the picture.  She has also told me that she didn't know or care about what stories were being told--whatever her motives were!?  But the police are the other instigators and my contacts and I have been working on this point more recently.  It is a serious issue and there needs to be a time when the police will acknowledge they've been mistaken, if they want to be fair.  From what I've been hearing, I believe some of the police have been getting ready to do so.--And I don't want to rush them but I just wanted to clarify the issues.  NOTE, added on March 6:  It may or may not be accurate to say people were trying to "force" me to come out.  And they weren't trying to force me to be with the woman who told the story.  At any rate, the police seemed to believe the story and they repeated it to a lot of people, many of whom also repeated it.  It can be frustrating to constantly hear about it, when I've told the police I'm not gay, whether the matter was legally seen as sexual harassment or not.  A legal case would depend on if it was based on the grounds covered by the laws, such as employment and also displaying a sign or image [a film?] in public.  There are points that could be debated.  But lawyers would be able to advise better on the finer points of the law. 

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