What will the NSW quiry to historil gay-hate crim mean for the bh? | LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardian

Contents:

• PH FOR QUIRY TO GAY HATE CRIM TO VTIGATE CLAIMS POLICE TURNED BLD EYE
• NSW ERNMENT ANNOUNC QUIRY TO SYDNEY'S UNSOLVED GAY AND TRANSGENR HATE CRIM, MURRS
• TWO TEEN BOYS CHARGED AFTER ALLEGEDLY ATTACKG GAY MEN SYDNEY
• HATE CRIME SYDNEY: FIVE THUGS BASH GAY MAN OUTSI UNIVERSAL NIGHTCLUB ON OXFORD STREET
• MAN SPEAKS OUT ABOUT BOYIEND’S BTAL GAY BASHG SYDNEY
• SYDNEY MAN GETS 12 YEARS FOR MURRG GAY AMERIN 1988
• DEEP WATER: WERE 30 UNSOLVED SYDNEY ATHS REALLY GAY HATE CRIM?
• WHAT WILL THE NSW QUIRY TO HISTORIL GAY-HATE CRIM MEAN FOR THE BH?

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

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.

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. "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.

"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. The NSW ernment has announced an quiry to btal hat crim mted agast members of Sydney's gay muny over 40 pots:The quiry will have the power to pel wns to prent evinceLiberal MP and gay man Shayne Mallard said was an emotnal dayHe said there was evince of at least 88 gay and transgenr murrsIn July 1989, 25-year-old newsrear Ross Warren disappeared om Sydney's eastern r had been parked on a street near the popular gay beat Marks Park, and his keys were found at the bottom of a cliff closed his se jt three weeks later, whout lotg his is spected to be among the dozens of men murred  Sydney through the 1980s and will form the basis of a judicial quiry announced by the NSW ernment on Wednday. (Supplied: Marton Dobras-Vcze)"The crim took place at a time when many the muny thought gay and transgenr people were sick, perverted or crimals, " chief executive Nilas Parkhill said.

NSW ERNMENT ANNOUNC QUIRY TO SYDNEY'S UNSOLVED GAY AND TRANSGENR HATE CRIM, MURRS

"Details about the ntent of the quiry, cludg s terms of reference, are yet to be month a memorial was unveiled at Marks Park Tamarama, the se of many spected murrs, to acknowledge and honour the victims of gay hate 4 Nov 2021Thu 4 Nov 2021 at 1:20am, updated 4 Nov 2021Thu 4 Nov 2021 at 3:29am. Two teenage boys have been charged over a seri of alleged asslts central Sydney, which gay men were punched, kicked and pots:The alleged asslts took place weeks before Sydney's Gay and Lbian Mardi GrasOne cint was ptured on CCTV helpg police to track down two spectsTwo teenaged boys have been charged wh assltIn one cint, which took place on Febary 6, a 19-year-old man was allegedly beaten by one of the boys jt before 9pm Haymarket after tellg them he was say one of the teens wound down the wdow of a black Volkswagen Golf and asked the man if he was gay, to which he replied "y"'s alleged one of the boys jumped out of the r before punchg the 19-year-old the head and knockg him to the ground outsi the Oaks Sydney Castlereagh 's then alleged the man was repeatedly kicked, leavg him wh ser bisg and swellg to his say the victim's iend, a 20-year-old woman, was egged when she tried to tervene. Sourc have told the ABC the man was also asked if he was gay, and when he replied, "y", he was pelted wh eggs, which h him the eye and the cht.

Vlence targetg LGBT people often creas the lead up to Sydney's Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, which will this year be held on March 5Detective Supertennt Rohan Cramsie said vtigatns were unrway to whether others were volved. “We don’t charge poofter bashers, ” the angry, middle-aged p screamed repeatedly at Higgbotham, who was standg at the charge sk pletg the paperwork for arrtg a man who’d btally bashed a gay man near the Higgbotham says he feels a ep sense of shame about the treatment of gay men by NSW Police.

TWO TEEN BOYS CHARGED AFTER ALLEGEDLY ATTACKG GAY MEN SYDNEY

The two young officers dutifully tracked down the intified attacker, who vlently risted arrt, handcuffed him and had him brought back to the statn a paddy wagon to be formally bashg victim happened to be the edor of a lol gay newspaper, who, obliv to the hard-re homophobia of the sergeant, wrote a posive story about Higgbotham and the Darlghurst police, highly unual at a time when distst between police and the gay muny was high. “It seemed I had doubled down on my ss by advertently makg the arrt public, their mds brgg public shame on the statn by helpg the victim of a gay hate crime.

’ ”Durg his one year at Darlghurst, Higgbotham wnsed police officers om his and other ner-cy statns bashg gay men at a beat on the wtern ge of Moore Park, grabbg alumium tncheons om the boots of marked uniform vehicl. “I was naive enough to thk we were there arrtg people for a muggg, but after this happened a few tim and there were no arrts, I realised the exclive target of the anised operatns were gay men at a beat.

LoadgHiggbotham – who is now a senr sergeant wh the Victoria Police, pneerg improved practic for supportg sex crime victims the urt procs – is the first officer to publicly acknowledge police om ner-cy statns Sydney were bashg gay men at beats the 1980s. But was the attacks on gay men that have stayed wh the veteran police officer, who has been married for 36 years and has two grandchildren. A young gay artist who was bashed unnsc by five thugs a spected 'hate crime' feared the group of homophob 'wanted to kill', 33, says he was kicked, punched and stomped on while tryg to avoid an altertn wh the group of unknown men outsi Universal nightclub on Sydney's Oxford Street at around 4am on June was shed to hospal where he later woke up not knowg where he was, bloodied, wh a broken nose and his ey swollen Police have lnched a major public appeal to track down the vlent men, releasg a seri of imag and CCTV footage of the five wanted over the btal attack.

HATE CRIME SYDNEY: FIVE THUGS BASH GAY MAN OUTSI UNIVERSAL NIGHTCLUB ON OXFORD STREET

Aaron spoke to Ne News on Thursday, revealg the terrifyg oral that saw him approached by a man hurlg gay slurs before the thugs chased him down the street. ' The 33-year-old was the target of a spected hate crime outsi a nightclub on Oxford Street June - and believ the thugs wanted to kill him Pictured: The group of men NSW Police believe were behd the disgtg homophobic attack on the 33-year-old artist'The guy who talked to me lled me a f****t. 'Dark secrets behd gay hate murrs of 23 men at Sydney's beach may be unlocked as killer of brilliant Amerin stunt phed off cliff 30 years ago utters stunng last mute nfsnBy Candace SuttonA 50-year-old man's shock last mute nfsn sayg he was 'guilty, guilty, guilty' urt this week to the 1988 murr of a US maths stunt has given police h hope of unlockg up to 23 'gay hate' Phillip Whe clared his guilt a spl send cisn at a pre-trial hearg, alarmg his lawyers who ma an unsuccsful attempt to have the plea now awas sentencg for phg 27-year-old Stt Johnson off a cliff at Manly's North Head, the brilliant PhD graduate's body found on the rocks below on December 10, apologised to his barrister Belda Rigg, sayg he appreciated her efforts 'but I n't handle ' and Jtice Helen Wilson nvicted Johnson had left his cloth neatly fold at the top of Blue Fish Pot, and spe a bungled police fdg the ath was a suici, his California-based brother Steve, never believed and pursued the se for three Johnson disvered that Blue Fish Pot, like the scene of other murrs the 1970s and 1980s, was a known as a beat among Sydney's gay muny.

Three s on, the murr of brilliant maths stunt Stt Johnson (above) has been solved after a man nfsed to phg the 27-year-old off a clifftop gay beat 1988 Stt Phillip Whe (above, handcuffed) shocked even his own lawyers urt on Monday utterg 'guilty, guilty, guilty' to Johnson's murr and apologisg, sayg 'I n't handle 'It was Mr Johnson's termatn that part propelled police to re-exame Stt's ath, after a third qut to his ath fdg he was likely murred and leadg tectiv to arrt the begng of the 1970s to the end of the 1980s, up to 88 gay men Sydney's east and metro areas were documented to have disappeared spic circumstanc, or were the victims of were found sla parks, hom or washed up on the rocks at the bottom of Sydney clifftops. TV newsrear Ross Warren's r keys were found below the cliff face of Marks Park, South Bondi (above), a gay beat where two hate gangs operated WIN TV prenter Ross Warren was a risg star who did not flnt his sexualy and was likely head for a discreet enunter which end his beg murredThe other was loosely known as the Tamarama Gang, wh three members aged 16 to 17, who met up at night on the Bondi-Tamarama 2. Siar thgs were gog on at the clifftops which flank the harbour, and cy parks which ntued as clanste meetg spots even after homosexualy was crimalised New South Wal 1984.

AC/DC Manager Crisp Dye (above) was btally bashed near Oxford Street, Sydney, December 1993 and died hospal on Christmas Day, aged 41Martial arts expert Raymond Keam (left), 43, and Cyril Olsen (right), 61, were two more victims of spected gay bashgs 1987 and 1992 rpectively In 1985, 27-year-old French natnal Gil Mattai was livg was last seen walkg along the astal walkg track at Tamarama on September 15 that year by a neighbour; he was not reported missg until January 1987, martial arts expert Raymond Keam was bashed to ath at Alison Park, Randwick, and December 1988, William Allen was bashed to ath at Alexandria Park, Alexandria. Thai stunt Krchikorn Rattanajaturathaporn was phed off a sea cliff and died om tastrophic juri or drowng and three youths were nvicted of his murr French natnal Gil Mattai (left), 21, and John Rsell (right), 31, were both believed to have been killed at Marks Park, a clifftop and popular gay beat between Tamarama and BondiBee of Mr Johnson's eye-wnsg the killg, three youths were eventually nvicted of murr and each sentenced to 14 years Force Parabell was formed and 2018 livered a report of s vtigatn to 88 gay and lbian hate crim, which was tabled NSW report revealed chillg tails about those rryg out the attacks - who were maly men, but ocsnally clud women or teenage girls - who saw isolated and dark gay beats as the perfect place to gangs 'would move around om beat to beat' and their motivatn to attack might simply have been to obta money. 'Predatory gangs would go up and asslt victims, lookg to get $10, $20 or $30 to buy some alhol and have a good night out, ' a former NSW Police tective attackers wanted to portray themselv as 'alpha mal', some simply 'hated' gays and others had been molted as children, and stggled to differentiate between paedophil and gay the time, police often bshed off the aths of gay men as suicis, the lack of vtigatn more recently scribed by former NSW Police Mister David Elltt as 'offensive'.

MAN SPEAKS OUT ABOUT BOYIEND’S BTAL GAY BASHG SYDNEY

Former NSW Police Mister David Ellt said the historic failure to vtigate gay murrs was 'offensive' but that the state's tectiv 'don't do that anymore' Former NSW Police Commissner Mick Fuller said the force had let down the gay muny the past but police were now termed to solve ld se gay hate murrs'It was offensive bee was at a time when people were slightly dismissive of hate crim, and were too easy to try to make exc or to move on.

' GAY HATE CRIMES IN SYDNEY IN THE 1970s and 1980s: FACT BOX TITLE CRISPIN DYE - Bashed to ath near Oxford Street, Sydney, December 1993- The former AC/DC manager had travelled down to Sydney om Queensland to see fay for Christmas when he went out Surry Hills and Darlghurst. Risg star TV newsrear Ross Warren was probably phed of a cliff at Marks Park 1989, but his body was never found ROSS WARREN - TV prenter believed to have been phed off a cliff 1989- The 31-year-old news prenter om Wollongong ventured down to Sydney every fortnight to party at the cy's gay clubs.

- Mr Warren's r was found nearby but his body was never OLSEN - Bashed at Rhcutters Bay and phed over a clifftop 1992- Police spect he was subjected to a gay bashg before he tumbled to the water and drowned.

SYDNEY MAN GETS 12 YEARS FOR MURRG GAY AMERIN 1988

RAYMOND KEAM - Bashed to ath a park Randwick January, 1987- The 43-year-old martial arts expert was found ad Alison Park, Randwick- It is spected he was targeted by a vlent group who attacked several other gay men around that time. He scribed his first exposure to the ps' gay bashg when he was told to meet a group of six to ten officers at a lol Sydney park while uniform.

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

Higgbotham quickly realized was not a legimate police operatn, but stead a brazen and public mob attack by uniform police targetg gay men.

WHAT WILL THE NSW QUIRY TO HISTORIL GAY-HATE CRIM MEAN FOR THE BH?

"Eventually, I unrstood that this was beatg gay people and was beatg gay people wh alumum tncheons and was done by on-duty uniformed police. Homophobic groups of men and youth would asslt and often murr gay men, throwg them or forcg them to leap om the cliffs onto the rocks below.

A gay man livg Sydney, Atralia is speakg out and sharg tails of the btal gay bashg that left his boyiend wh a swollen jaw and eye, lumps and cuts on his face, a spl lip and bisg all over his body.