The NFSA has pleted a digal rtoratn of the documentary Wch and Faggots, Dyk and Poofters, about the very first Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras on 24 June 1978.
Contents:
- DEEP WATER: WERE 30 UNSOLVED SYDNEY ATHS REALLY GAY HATE CRIM?
- ABC BACKSTORYZOë COOMBS-MARR EXPLOR ATRALIA'S QUEER HISTORY QUEERSTRALIA, UNVERG LBIAN NVICT GAM AND A GAY BHRANGER
- SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS 2021
- FOXTEL CELEBRAT 2021 SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS FTIVAL WH HBO DOCUMENTARY LLECTN
- NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY
DEEP WATER: WERE 30 UNSOLVED SYDNEY ATHS REALLY GAY HATE CRIM?
Prour, lour and uned. The ABC is proud to be the host broadster of the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras and Sydney WorldPri. Celebrate the LGBTQIA+ muny wh this selectn of documentari, bpics, heartfelt dramas and edic romps. * sydney gay documentary *
The ABC is proud to be the host broadster of the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras and Sydney WorldPri. 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. 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.
ABC BACKSTORYZOë COOMBS-MARR EXPLOR ATRALIA'S QUEER HISTORY QUEERSTRALIA, UNVERG LBIAN NVICT GAM AND A GAY BHRANGER
A pair of tectiv vtigate a btal murr se Bondi and disver mountg evince that suggts a nnectn to a spate of gay hate crim Sydney the 1980s and 1990s. * sydney gay documentary *
“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?
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.
SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS 2021
Deep Water: The Real Story: Directed by Amanda Blue. Wh David McMahon, Sue Thompson, Peter Rsell, Ted Rsell. Up to 80 murrs, 30 unsolved s, thoands of asslts. In the 1980s and 1990s a murro epimic grips Sydney. The attackers are uned by ntempt. Their targets uned by their sexual inty. All are gay. For the first time, DEEP WATER: THE REAL STORY prents the full acunt of the gay hate crime epimic that bloodied Sydney's astle. It stirs up old s the hope that new evince will rise to the surface and brg peace and jtice to the loved on left behd." data-id="ma * sydney gay documentary *
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.
FOXTEL CELEBRAT 2021 SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS FTIVAL WH HBO DOCUMENTARY LLECTN
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”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.
NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY
Homosexualy was only crimalised NSW 1984 and the Aids panmic was full flight. Filmg wh legendary activist Peter De Waal, one of the origal "78ers" who participated the first Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras 1978. (ABC TV)Wh the stagg of the 45th Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, the fight for equaly by the "78ers" — who staged the first march — has been well documented, but Queerstralia has dug much further back time and explor the experienc of people across the untry.
"We've got a gay bhranger, Capta Moonlight, and even before there was a word for transns, people we would now classify as trans were jt livg their liv, passg as the oppose sex, livg out their genrs lonial tim. It fely was not OK to be gay Grafton and I experienced a lot of bullyg, also for jt beg weird, so I lent to beg weird. "While society today is pretty acceptg, hasn't been my lifetime and there is still homophobia, certaly transphobia, out there and kids get those msag.