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Contents:

• TWO MEN VLENTLY ATTACKED NORTHBRIDGE GAY BASHG
• SPECTED GAY BASHG NORTHBRIDGE LEAV MAN WH BROKEN NOSE
• PERTH NORTHBRIDGE GAY MAN BASHED ALLEGED HOMOPHOBIC ATTACK
• PH FOR QUIRY TO GAY HATE CRIM TO VTIGATE CLAIMS POLICE TURNED BLD EYE
• GAY BASHGS, HOMOPHOBIA: FORMER P RELLS HORROR YEARS NSW POLICE FORCE
• MEANG OF GAY-BASHG ENGLISH
• TRANSLATN OF GAY-BASHG – ENGLISH–TRADNAL CHE DICTNARY
• GAY BASHG

TWO MEN VLENTLY ATTACKED NORTHBRIDGE GAY BASHG

The man asked if they were gay. “He has asked me if I was gay and then lerally jt lled his iend and boom!

CrimeSocial AffairsWA NewsSpected gay bashg Northbridge leav man wh broken nose Ben Downie and Claire SadlerThe Wt AtralianSun, 9 April 2023 2:01PMPremiumThe victims of a Northbridge attack believe they were liberately targeted a homophobic hate crime and are warng Perth’s queer muny to be on Lea and a iend were walkg along Jam Street around midnight on Saturday when they were asked about their sexualy then bashed by three, or possibly more, men. Asie cy is rocked by sickeng hate crime agast a gay man who was vicly bashed by two thugs: 'They were yellg out to kick him the head'Gay man btally bashed Perth attack He says two men asslted him and A iend The attackers asked Adrian Lea if he was gay Published: 15:57 BST, 9 April 2023 | Updated: 11:20 BST, 10 April 2023. A gay man claims he was the victim of a btal homophobic attack the heart of a Perth's nightlife district, which left him wh a actured Lea, 37, says he and iends were walkg om an event to Connectns Night Club at around 12am Northbridge on Saturday morng when two men Lea said he had a short nversatn wh one them while they were standg near the Perth Cultural Centre.

The stranger asked if Mr Lea was gay and he answered the man lled his iend over to beg a vic asslt.

SPECTED GAY BASHG NORTHBRIDGE LEAV MAN WH BROKEN NOSE

Legal observers say a judicial quiry to gay and transgenr hate crim New South Wal mt vtigate claims that police officers turned a bld eye or were volved the pots:The NSW ernment is settg up a judicial quiry to gay and transgenr hate crim between 1970 and 2010Former Supreme Court judge Anthony Whealy says the quiry needs Royal Commissn powersAlan Rosendale hop the quiry will vtigate whether police were volved his attack 30 years agoA seri of btal bashgs and murrs Sydney brought terror to the LGBTI muny for s, amid failur to properly vtigate. "It was a night out for certa sectns of the muny to go and bash a few gays after beg the pub, " John Agi SC told 7.

PERTH NORTHBRIDGE GAY MAN BASHED ALLEGED HOMOPHOBIC ATTACK

" Mr Agi reprented the fay of Stt Johnson, whose ath 1988 is now beg treated as a gay hate murr. The Perrottet ernment will set up a judicial quiry to gay and transgenr hate crim between 1970 and 2010, followg the remendatns of a parliamentary mtee that found NSW Police were different to such crim and failed to properly vtigate them at the time. (ABC News: Jerry Rickard)Gay men would often vanish, acrdg to activist and historian Garry Wotherspoon.

That era, asslts on gay people were monplace, wh reports of more than 20 cints a day. "I was first bashed 1969 when I me out of a gay dance Petersham, " Mr Wotherspoon said. "Gay crim were sometim not treated serly, where vtigatns were not done aquately, and I thk that will she a bright light on those ficienci, " he told 7.

PH FOR QUIRY TO GAY HATE CRIM TO VTIGATE CLAIMS POLICE TURNED BLD EYE

"If there are servg officers who turned a bld eye to what was happeng, or had any hand the missn of hate crim agast gay people, I thk they should have every reason to fear this quiry. ”Mark Higgbotham has revealed police bashgs of gay men the 1980s.

”The notor former police officer, Roger Rogerson, was based at the statn at the time, but the now-faiar stori of protectn money, pay-offs om crime boss and ps on the take at Darlghurst, Surry Hills and Kgs Cross police statns have missed another, arguably more signifint story: how police were allegedly bashg gay men.

GAY BASHGS, HOMOPHOBIA: FORMER P RELLS HORROR YEARS NSW POLICE FORCE

Higgbotham was wns to this at one gay beat Moore Park.

MEANG OF GAY-BASHG ENGLISH

”Higgbotham was mystified by the anger directed towards gay men by the officers, “which isn’t what you would have expected the middle of a gay area”. The pth of that anger beme abundantly clear to Higgbotham when he arrted a man for a gay bashg that happened only blocks away om the statn. “I do remember thkg he was gay and askg him what had happened.

TRANSLATN OF GAY-BASHG – ENGLISH–TRADNAL CHE DICTNARY

After the victim, the edor of a gay newspaper, wrote a posive story about Higgbotham and the Darlghurst police, he was seen as some kd of avenger and protector for the gay muny by at least two senr staff at the statn, who subjected him to a soul-stroyg bullyg mpaign, at s nastit durg the ‘taskg para’ at the mencement of each shift, when jobs were alloted. ‘” Higgbotham was not sulted by beg labelled a homosexual by his tormentors – for the rerd Higgbotham is heterosexual – but bee they were g that word to try to mean and stroy him.

He has been wh the Victorian police for 29 years, pneerg work improvg practic for supportg sex crime victims the urt early as next week, a cisn will be ma on whether a judicial quiry will proceed to the large number of unsolved s of spected gay and transgenr hate crime aths between 1970 and 2010. “Time is nng out on the murrs and asslts, ” says Mallard, who has been a victim of a homophobic asslt himself.

GAY BASHG

This is unfished bs for the gay, lbian and transgenr muny, which llectively still mourns the crim.