{"id":89185,"date":"2019-05-30T16:26:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T20:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/straight-police-recruit-applies-for-job-during-lgbtq-diversity-drive-isnt-hired-sues-and-wins\/"},"modified":"2019-05-30T16:26:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T20:26:24","slug":"straight-police-recruit-applies-for-job-during-lgbtq-diversity-drive-isnt-hired-sues-and-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/straight-police-recruit-applies-for-job-during-lgbtq-diversity-drive-isnt-hired-sues-and-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Straight police recruit applies for job during LGBTQ diversity drive, isn\u2019t hired, sues, and wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Straight police recruit applies for job during LGBTQ diversity drive, isn\u2019t hired, sues, and wins<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/2019\/05\/Matthew-Furlong.png\" alt=\"Matthew Furlong\" width=\"670\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/2019\/05\/Matthew-Furlong.png 484w, https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/2019\/05\/Matthew-Furlong-400x287.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\"><\/p>\n<p>All 25-year-old Matthew Furlong wanted to do was \u201cfollow in his father\u2019s footsteps\u201d and become a police officer.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, he applied to join the Cheshire Police Department\u00a0during a diversity drive. The department was hoping to hire more LGBTQ officers. You know, because diversity is a good thing!<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>There was just one teensy tiny problem.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Furlong is not L, G, B, T, or Q. He\u2019s straight. 100% hetero. No homo. Got that?<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, he applied for the job anyway and when he didn\u2019t get it, he sued for discrimination. Now, he just won his case in court.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2019\/05\/30\/police-recruit-rejected-white-heterosexual-male-joins-force\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Telegraph<\/em><\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Cheshire Constabulary, in which Mr Furlong\u2019s father is a serving detective inspector,\u00a0was found guilty of discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, race and <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a>\u00a0following an employment tribunal earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>A settlement has now been reached\u00a0and Mr Furlong will be joining as a student officer in September, his lawyers said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking to reporters after his court victory this week, Furlong said: \u201cMy dad has served more than 20 years with Cheshire Police and I had always wanted to follow in his footsteps, ever since school. Not just anywhere but in the place I grew up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Furlong added that if he had \u201clied on my interview form and said I was <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">bisexual<\/a>\u201d then he knows he would have gotten the job and that the whole thing has \u201ccompletely shattered my confidence in the police force recruitment system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Chief Constable Julie Cooke said the diversity drive was created \u201cwith the best of intentions\u201d and was never intended to be discriminatory against straight people.<\/p>\n<p>Furlong, she added, will be welcomed as a new member of the Cheshire Police with no hard feelings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe accept the findings of the tribunal,\u201d she said, \u201cand have looked very carefully at our entire recruitment practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But chances are this means there will be no more LGBTQ diversity drives.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Ainscough, an employment lawyer, tells the<em> Telegraph<\/em>: \u201cPositive action is an incredibly important tool to aid diversity in the workforce but this case is a reminder that it must be applied correctly to ensure that employers still recruit candidates based on merit above all else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/straight-white-rapper-releases-song-oppressed-eve-pride-month-20190529\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Straight white rapper releases song about how oppressed he is on the eve of Pride month<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=-P7aYBORf1c:UV9kHtH-THg:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=-P7aYBORf1c:UV9kHtH-THg:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/straight-police-recruit-applies-job-lgbtq-diversity-drive-isnt-hired-sues-wins-20190530?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.queerty.com\/straight-police-recruit-applies-job-lgbtq-diversity-drive-isnt-hired-sues-wins-20190530?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Straight police recruit applies for job during LGBTQ diversity drive, isn\u2019t hired, sues, and wins All 25-year-old Matthew Furlong wanted to do was \u201cfollow in his father\u2019s footsteps\u201d and become a police officer. 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The department was hoping to hire more LGBTQ &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/straight-police-recruit-applies-for-job-during-lgbtq-diversity-drive-isnt-hired-sues-and-wins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Straight police recruit applies for job during LGBTQ diversity drive, isn\u2019t hired, sues, and wins<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Straight police recruit applies for job during LGBTQ diversity drive, isn\u2019t hired, sues, and wins - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/straight-police-recruit-applies-for-job-during-lgbtq-diversity-drive-isnt-hired-sues-and-wins\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Straight police recruit applies for job during LGBTQ diversity drive, isn\u2019t hired, sues, and wins - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Straight police recruit applies for job during LGBTQ diversity drive, isn\u2019t hired, sues, and wins All 25-year-old Matthew Furlong wanted to do was \u201cfollow in his father\u2019s footsteps\u201d and become a police officer. 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