Potential gay-hate murrs Sydney are now beg vtigated, but homophobic bashgs other stat are still a mystery.
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"ONE ATTACK A WEEK": ALAI'S GAY HATE CRIM
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As part of SBS's Deep Water seri, journalist Mark Whtaker vtigated a seri of asslts and murrs that occurred on Alai's gay beats. Siar attacks Sydney, focsed around gay beats Sydney's eastern suburbs, are now the subject of NSW police taskforce Operatn Parrabell, which is vtigatg 88 aths that were rerd as suici or misadventure for potential gay-hate around the same time as the peak perd of Sydney attacks – the '80s and early '90s – siar thgs were happeng at the gay beats parklands surroundg Alai.
"The gay muny Alai was sayg was about one attack a week. "Like Sydney, Alai police were reluctant to vtigate spected gay bashgs and murrs – some s, bee they had mted police officer Mick O'Shea told SBS his lleagu ed to brag "every bloody day of the week" about throwg the gay men they would fd at beats to the river. "They would brag regularly about their pas wh the gays and what they’d done to them and how they’d thrown them the river, " he said.
"The murr of Dr Gee Dunn 1972, who was drowned the River Torrens, was a talyst for South Atralia to bee the first state to crimalise homosexualy 1975. However, even after crimalisatn, gay men still faced persecutn om police as they were mtg "public acts of cency" at beats. "There’s certaly plenty of gay people who will tell you they were lghed out of the police statn, or ignored by the ps emergency or tensive re, bee of where [the asslt happened].
GAY MEN GROUPS ALAI
Fd lol Gay Men groups Alai and meet people who share your terts. Jo a group and attend onle or person events. * gay beats around adelaide *
Here's a look at some Gay Men groups near Alai. Tennyson Dun is a well known gay beach at Wt Lak Alai Atralia. The dun are next to a huge beach but the gay area is ont of the dun.