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Contents:

• DEEP WATER: WERE 30 UNSOLVED SYDNEY ATHS REALLY GAY HATE CRIM?
• BE GAY DO CRIME
• MY SON WAS MURRED BY GAY SERIAL KILLER – I SHOULD HAVE SAVED HIS OTHER VICTIMS, SAYS MUM WHO SPIRED ‘FOUR LIV’
• SERIAL KILLER DOCERI 'LAST CALL' RECKONS WH NYC'S HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY VLENCE
• BL / GAY - NEW MOVI AND DRAMAS 2020-2021
• RYAN MURPHY IS MAKG A NETFLIX SERI ABOUT GAY SERIAL KILLER JEFEY DAHMER
• DETECTIVE SERI ABOUT GAYS

DEEP WATER: WERE 30 UNSOLVED SYDNEY ATHS REALLY GAY HATE CRIM?

The Sixth Commandment9pm, BBC OneTimothy Spall stars this dark drama by Sarah Phelps based on the horrifyg real-life se of Peter Farquhar, an elrly, eply closeted gay amic who was sced, exploed and eventually murred by too-good-to-be-te stunt Ben Field (Éanna Hardwicke). The BBC seri tells the harrowg te story of four young gay men who were murred between 2014 and 2016. Users have lled “the shy man’s beat”, or the “last stop on Sydney’s gay sex tour”.

In 2012 the New South Wal puty state roner Carmel Forb overturned the suici fdg but uld not terme how he police have formed Operatn Parrabell, a team of eight tectiv who will apply an FBI measure of hate bias – creria to terme if a crime is motivated by bias agast, for stance, sexual orientatn – to see if as many as 88 Sydney aths datg om the 1970s onward, cludg 30 unsolved s, were gay hate s were marked suici or e unknown, but past police nclns are now beg lled to qutn.

A new SBS vtigatn has unvered “ser mistak” were ma the ial vtigatns, cludg the misspellg of one ad man’s Johnson tells Guardian Atralia that applyg the FBI hate bias creria is unlikely to unver gay hate crim bee the strgent checklist requir s to be solved, perpetrators to be intified and their hatred of victims to be proclaimed.

BE GAY DO CRIME

Instead, he says, a better exercise would be to pull every police file on every ath near a gay Sydney meetg place om the 1970s to about 2000 and ask: was this se properly vtigated? The aim is to attract a natnal dience to the story, and to unver more possible gay hate crim and murrs producer, Darren Dale, says he was spired by hearg 2012 about the murr of Ahmed Ghoniem, who was found Sydney apartment wh multiple stab wounds and blunt trma juri. The two attacks were unrelated but Dale, who is gay, uldn’t help but pare the public rponse.

“I live Potts Pot [ Sydney], and I thought, if there is someone attackg and murrg gay men – more gay people livg there than I spect anywhere else Atralia – then how e ’s not any of the papers, ’s not been the news?

MY SON WAS MURRED BY GAY SERIAL KILLER – I SHOULD HAVE SAVED HIS OTHER VICTIMS, SAYS MUM WHO SPIRED ‘FOUR LIV’

Shawn Seet, the director of the ld Canberra polil drama The Co, is at the the prent day, fictnal Detective Senr Constable Tori Ltigman, played by Yael Stone of Orange Is the New Black, her own DNA to see if match DNA found on a piece of lead pipg, which she spects may be her gay brother’s. His 1989 drowng had been rerd as a drama’s central ncerns are: Did the fictnal Kyle “Hammers” Hampton (Craig McLachlan) – a one-time member of a gay-bashg gang – play a role the men’s aths? Photograph: Sean O'Reilly/SBSThe ‘gay ATM’It was not until 2005, 17 years after Stt Johnson’s ath, that Steve realised his beloved brother might have died vlently: he had been sent a clippg about the vlent aths of three other gay men year the NSW senr puty state roner Jacquele Milledge found that the televisn newsrear Ross Warren, 25, and barman John Rsell, 31, had been murred two separate attacks 1989, most probably thrown off a cliff at Bondi’s Marks Park, which was known as a gay beat.

SERIAL KILLER DOCERI 'LAST CALL' RECKONS WH NYC'S HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY VLENCE

Photograph: Steve JohnsonSteve Johnson believ, along wh many others, that herent bias play a role both the mimal media verage of the stori and the public and police rponse to vlent crim agast gay people.

“I’m unsure what role homophobia played the 1980s, ” he says, “but certaly seemed that the police systematilly avoid vtigatg the aths of gay men, or men prumed to be gay.

BL / GAY - NEW MOVI AND DRAMAS 2020-2021

”In Johnson’s se, police repeatedly nied that North Head was a gay beat. His brother says this was an implsible ncln: many gay men have told his vtigatn that the area had been a popular beat sce the 1960s but gay men were often too sred to report asslts bee “police treated them like perpetrators, not victims”’s vtigatn also clud terviewg former gay-bashg gang members, who had sentially operated wh impuny bee there was still a “lot of hatred towards gays”, he says.

RYAN MURPHY IS MAKG A NETFLIX SERI ABOUT GAY SERIAL KILLER JEFEY DAHMER

Homosexualy was only crimalised NSW 1984 and the Aids panmic was full flight. The "gay" is terpretatnal some s is Bromance and some of the are bi- or pansexual.

DETECTIVE SERI ABOUT GAYS

Sarah said: “I’ve always said was homophobic om the very begng. Or, more ightengly, uld have been someone who wanted to beg terrorizg Houma’s small gay muny.