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Contents:

• MAN UGHT SPRAY-PATG ‘BASH A GAY’ GRAFFI SYDNEY
• SYDNEY PRI MURAL OUTSI WYNYARD STATN WH 'CREEPY' TEDDY BEAR GAY BONDAGE PATG VANDALISED
• GAY GRAFFI STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI
• NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY
• GAY HISTORY: THE WALL & GREEN PARK, DARLGHURST, NSW.
• THE FIRST GAY GRAFFI HISTORY? REARCHERS REVEAL LARGE PHALL RVED TO ROCKS ON GREEK ISLAND - PLETE WH SCRIPTNS TALKG ABOUT MEN MOUNTG EACH OTHER
• SYDNEY GAY & LBIAN MARDI GRAS
• FORMER MARDI GRAS HQ FACED WH GAY ANARCHIST GRAFFI

MAN UGHT SPRAY-PATG ‘BASH A GAY’ GRAFFI SYDNEY

The unvarnished fact is that late at night, Marks Park, a grassy verge ppg the headland and the ncrete pathway skirtg the cliff face, had been a gay beat – a place where homosexual men would socialise and hook up – sce at least the late 1920s.

SYDNEY PRI MURAL OUTSI WYNYARD STATN WH 'CREEPY' TEDDY BEAR GAY BONDAGE PATG VANDALISED

Gangs like the Bondi Boys (otherwise known by their graffi tag PTK, or People that Kill) would prowl here, rryg out brazen acts of vlence; ’s likely that at least a few were serial offenrs; perpetrators of an anti-gay murr spree that swept across Sydney at the is no simple whodunn; volv a tangled tale of hate crim volvg multiple spects, gangs prisg up to 30 members, some of whom circulated among other gangs across Sydney, posg a dark mosaic of murr. This is a lot more than n be said for the other men killed here, or for that matter, the vast majory of other murrs of gay men blightg Sydney at the a year to the day earlier, on another eezg night July 1989, Ross Warren, a handsome, charismatic weatherman and newsrear om WIN-TV Wollongong, vanished on this headland the early hours of a Saturday morng.

”In what was perhaps another watershed moment this year, a 75-year-old man was arrted for the murr of Raymond Keam, a martial arts expert and father of two who was found beaten to ath January 1987 at Alison Park, Randwick, then a well-known gay beat Sydney’s east. As Sue Thompson, a former state ombudsman’s vtigator who joed the police force 1990 to ordate s liaison wh the gay and lbian muny, tells me the podst: “Cliffs were the easit weapon; you didn’t have to rry anythg wh you.

GAY GRAFFI STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

”“Thgs did not change magilly 1984 [when homosexualy was crimalised NSW]. ”For Thompson, beg a liaison officer was eply personal: one of her close iends, a gay man, had been murred only months before she took the role, and she was ls than imprsed wh the police rponse.

The gay muny’s mistst of police at the time wasn’t helpg to quell the vlence. “Thgs did not change magilly 1984 [when homosexualy was crimalised NSW], ” Thompson outled one of her reports. It was my job to brg peace between police and the gay and lbian muni and effect anisatnal change police culture.

GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI

”If there remas any doubt that gay men’s liv were seen as of ls value at that time, look at how the murrs were vtigated by the Bondi police. In the late 1980s and early ’90s, Sydney’s gay and lbian muny was unr siege (bashgs and murrs of gay men were also happeng Melbourne, Brisbane and Alai, but not on the same sle). Activists splattered red pat over 11 cy buildgs, cludg state parliament, the Downg Centre urt plex, and the headquarters of Channel 10 and The Sydney Morng Herald, then loted Jon Street, class were sprgg up ner-cy gyms and muny groups, and a group of gay volunteers – some of them former members of the army, navy and police force – began foot patrols along Oxford Street and Darlghurst Street foot patrol RtersStill, the murrs ntued.

In May, one of their own, social science teacher Wayne Tonks, was murred his Artarmon apartment by two young men (not his stunts) was outrage when the so-lled gay panic fence, a cel wrkle the law that enabled killers to claim an alleged sexual advance provoked them to a murro rage, was ed the murr trial of Christopher McKnon, arrted for killg Mrice McCarty, a technician wh the Atralian Ballet, April 1991. ”Parkhill nces that the culture of the NSW police force reflected broar societal norms of the time, although possibly exacerbated by a mostly male staff and the AIDS crisis, which provid those wh an agenda agast gay men wh the perfect ammunn to stigmatise the LGBTQ muny even more. Earlier this year, the fdgs om an 18-month parliamentary quiry, Gay and Transgenr Hate Crim between 1970 and 2010, found that the NSW Police Force had failed s rponsibily to properly vtigate historil hate crim.

My book on the murrs, Bondi Badlands, was published back 2007, and over the years one qutn has ntued to hnt me: what turns young men to murrers of gay men?

NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY

The pop-psych explanatn we so equently hear – that those who m vlent offenc agast gay men mt have suffered sexual or physil abe themselv – don’t necsarily hold up to close scty.

GAY HISTORY: THE WALL & GREEN PARK, DARLGHURST, NSW.

Make no mistake about this: the men, like so many others at the time, were slghtered bee they were gay. Homophobic vandals faced a WorldPri mural near Wynyard statn Sydney’s CBD on Wednday night.

THE FIRST GAY GRAFFI HISTORY? REARCHERS REVEAL LARGE PHALL RVED TO ROCKS ON GREEK ISLAND - PLETE WH SCRIPTNS TALKG ABOUT MEN MOUNTG EACH OTHER

The WorldPri mural near Wynyard statn Sydney CBD was faced by homophobic vandals. 'Be Gay, Do Crime!

SYDNEY GAY & LBIAN MARDI GRAS

LGBT is still a popular term ed to discs genr and sexual mori, but all GSRM are wele beyond lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people who nsent to participate a safe space.

Homophobia also remas a problem. Controversial Pri mural featurg a 'creepy' teddy bear gay bondage patg is vandalised and stroyed overnight: 'Leave the kids alone'LGBTQ+ bondage mural Sydney stroyed overnightIt featured a teddy bear wearg a bondage outf Published: 21:31 BST, 22 Febary 2023 | Updated: 00:25 BST, 23 Febary 2023. The ntroversial patg on Wynyard Street Sydney's CBD showed a hairy, overweight man wearg a leather bondage strap across his cht wh a teddy bear head as he recled on a sofa wh a beer n and a gay pri was signed to promote lol shops durg the WorldPri ftival but sparked outrage and mands for the 'creepy and sexualised' image to be removed om the view of mural was placed close to one of the cy's bit tra and b statns, also lled Wynyard.

'The gay muny worked hard for years to distance themselv om this sort of reprentatn.

FORMER MARDI GRAS HQ FACED WH GAY ANARCHIST GRAFFI

Sydney’s first Mardi Gras was the last a seri of events produced as part of the Day of Internatnal Gay Solidary, on 24 June 1978, by the Gay Solidary Group, followg a morng prott march and a public meetg. At 10pm that night, people began to assemble at Taylor Square, wh the crowd surroundg a flatbed tck wh a sound system playg Meg Christian’s O to a Gym Teacher and Tom Robson’s Glad to be Gay as they set off down Oxford Street to Hy though the street ftival had a perm to “assemble and march”, the police kept forcg the tck to speed up. Peter Tully, Philip Mills (Doris Fish), Ron Smh and Jeffery Hardy the Sydney Gay Mardi Gras Workshop, Febary 1986.

Tirias, Tirias Hoe transgenr float the Sydney Gay Mardi Gras Para, 1988. One of the inic drag shows performg at the Sydney Gay Mardi Gras parti, Cha Reactn featured 10 drag queens drsed as Diana Ross on two giant ke stag, wh five giant ndl on oppose ends of the dancefloor.