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The holiday season just got a whole lot more merry for these two ladies!

He's the same officer who tangled with out CNN anchor Don Lemon last week, and Lemon brought to light the video of the cop's speech.

We would like to take a moment to thank the very brave lesbian police officers of the city of Palm Springs for their honest disclosure regarding workplace insecurities. Striving to feel equal while on duty is the last thing a police officer wants to think about while running after a perpetrator or pulling over an armed suspect. Unfortunately, the uncomfortable questions, stares and feelings involved do not always know the appropriate time to pop up.

A lesbian police officer won an $80,000 settlement from the New York City Police Department based on her claim that she was wrongfully accused after a game of Scrabble with a friend turned sour. Officer Sonya Glover said that the incident, which responding police officers allegedly called “some gay thing,” exemplified a pattern of antigay harassment against her.

Lesbian Jene Newsome, who played by the rules of "don't ask, don't tell" as an Air Force sergeant, is suing a South Dakota police department for outing her. Newsome, 28, was honorably discharged after police officers found a marriage license in her home and reported to the military that she was a lesbian. Newsome and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a complaint against the western South Dakota police department, claiming the officers violated her privacy.

Pittsburgh mayor Bill Peduto is launching an investigation after a 19-year-old woman was pushed to the ground, had her hair pulled, and was punched several times by a police officer.

Two lesbian police officers in Baltimore, Md. were awarded the right to extend their health benefits to their spouses Tuesday after initially being denied those benefits by the county. An independent arbiter ruled that veteran officers Margaret Selby and Juanika Ballard must be granted health benefits for their respective wives. Each of the officers married their spouses in different states during the summer of 2009.

New York City police officer Ekeythia Dunston shot her lover, Erica LeGall, Monday morning after LeGall attacked her with a clothing iron, authorities say.

A suspended Rhode Island police officer was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years in prison for raping a woman in an empty police substation in March 2007.  Marcus Huffman picked the then-19-year-old woman up outside of a nightclub in Providence. She was clearly intoxicated, and Huffman, on duty and driving a police cruiser, offered to take her home. Instead he took her to the substation and raped her, leaving her in the bathroom.

When two men briefly kissed at the popular Chico's Taco chain in El Paso, TX, they were quickly forced by security guards and a local police officer to leave the establishment citing a state law against homosexual activity.

Credit Union of Atlanta CEO DeFarra Gaymon was shot and killed by a police officer in Newark, New Jersey last week after allegedly propositioning the officer at a gay cruising area. Gaymon stopped by the Branch Brook Park area while en route to his 30th high school reunion. The neighborhood is known for attracting sexual activity and male prostitutes, according to a report in The New York Times.

The Atlanta Citizen Review Board determined that 24 police officers acted improperly when they raided the Eagle gay bar last year, but it opted not to take disciplinary action because it could only impose a three-day suspension on officers. The board considered the two issues of false imprisonment and abusive language regarding the raid last September. “The first involved charges of false imprisonment. The board found officers had no legal right to search, detain, and run criminal database checks on the 60+ patrons, because none were suspected of any crime.

Encouraged by local religious leaders like pastor Tom Brown (pictured), El Paso, Texas, voters stripped domestic-partner benefits from gay workers in November, but now the city is discovering they may have also taken benefits away from retired police officers and elected officials.

A senior at George Washington University was charged in D.C. Superior Court Monday with beating another student while calling him antigay slurs, according to the school’s student newspaper. Metropolitan Police Department officers arrested senior Ross Richardson early Sunday morning in Ivory Tower, after he kicked and punched a fellow student while saying, “you fucking fag.”

Seven Washington, D.C., police officers may be fired after refusing to report an attack against a group of lesbians. The incident occurred on July 30 after a man called a group of five women “dyke bitches.” He and another man then proceeded to punch the group of victims in the face and body. The women said the attack occurred after they politely ignored the men as they tried to flirt with them.