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Unusually for this show, which normally focuses on long departed historical figures, today we\u2019re going to talk about someone who\u2019s still very much in the news. Until last week, she was the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, London\u2019s police force, and was the first woman and the first LBGTQ person to hold the rank, Dame Cressida Dick. Today, part one of two: we begin telling Dick's life story and then delve into the history of the Met, its relationship with LGBTQ people, and the conflicting strands of LGBTQ politics that emphasize conflict vs collaboration with the police. Next week: more on Dick herself and her checkered career in the force.\n----more----\nSOURCES:\nMany of the sources we used to research this episode will be cited in next week's show notes. For this week:\nMatt Houlbrook, Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2006\nMoya Lothian-Maclean, \u201cLords of the Manor,\u201d Human Resources, accessed February 15, 2022, https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/human-resources/id1565249472.\nAsa Seresin, \u201cLesbian Fascism on TERF Island,\u201d Asa Seresin (blog), February 11, 2021, https://asaseresin.com/2021/02/11/lesbian-fascism-on-terf-island/\n\u201c\u200eUntold: The Daniel Morgan Murder,\u201d accessed February 15, 2022, https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/untold-the-daniel-morgan-murder/id1114802610.\nWe also encourage people listening to this episode to learn more about organizations combating police violence. Here are four organizations in the UK related to this episode - next week we will add more resources to the show notes with similar groups in the other areas where we have the highest listenership:\n\xa0\nLondon Campaign against Police and State Violence http://lcapsv.net/\nUnited Friends and Families Campaign https://uffcampaign.org/\nSisters Uncut https://www.sistersuncut.org/\nInquest\xa0 - a charity that focuses on getting truth and accountability for state related deaths https://www.inquest.org.uk/\nOur intro music is\xa0Arpeggia Colorix\xa0by Yann Terrien, downloaded from WFMU's Free Music Archive and distributed under a Creative Commons\xa0Attribution-ShareAlike License. Our outro music is by DJ\xa0Michaeloswell Graphicsdesigner.