The Peter Tatchell Foundation for Human Rights says that whereas some police forces, such as Avon and Somerset Constabulary, have apologised for past homophobic harassment of LGBTQIA+ people, so several of the forces which were the most bullying in the past, have refused to commit to such an apology. In an article for the Independent, Mr Tatchell says "At the height of the Aids crisis in the 1980s, when hundreds of gay men were suffering slow, agonising deaths, the then-Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police (GMP),