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The preconceptions of the environment within a fire station can often be perceived to be a hyper-masculine space, but this is now an outdated mentality, according to an openly gay firefighter.

Imagine if your co-workers were also snarling epithets at you. James Rodgers, a recent addition to the London Fire Brigade (LFB) spoke to MyLondon about his experience as a gay firefighter whose life outside of the fire service exists primarily within queer spaces.

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May 11, The first day on any job is always a challenge: unfamiliar environment, new people, different procedures. Facebook Instagram Twitter. Welcome to the International EMS & Firefighters Pride Alliance representing and supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, emergency medical and fire service professionals around the world.

Being snubbed and bullied was bad enough, but there were times when his co-workers gay endangered his life, abandoning him in burning buildings and aiming powerful hoses at him to try and knock him off his ladder. Previous article Artist Portrait: Cheryl Foster.