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Contents:

• GAY SYDNEY HOTELS
• GAY SNAS SYDNEY
• BARS - OXFORD HOTEL
• LEGENDARY OXFORD STREET GAY CLUB ARQ HAS ANNOUNCED AN OPENG DATE
• HATE CRIME SYDNEY: FIVE THUGS BASH GAY MAN OUTSI UNIVERSAL NIGHTCLUB ON OXFORD STREET
• THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY
• GAY SYDNEY HOTELS
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• THE COLOMBIAN HOTELSYDNEYMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGE + BUDGETHOTELS · DISUNTSON TODAYBARSDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSSNASBEACH SERVICTOURSCY GUIGAY MAPTHE COLOMBIAN HOTEL

GAY SYDNEY HOTELS

Map of gay hotels sydney. gay & lbian acmodatn sydney. Thanks to years of effort by Gay and Lbian Rights Groups such as the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Associatn, Sydney has bee a well tegrated blend of cultur and liftyl.

GAY SNAS SYDNEY

The old Gay Ghetto culture - wh s exclively gay or lbian hotels - no longer exists. Sydney now offers Gay Acmodatn that is more mixed as travellers e to expect a large gay populatn the cy center, pecially around Oxford street or the Newtown area. Oxford Street, Darlghurst and Surry Hills, offers gay-iendly acmodatn, ually 3 to 4 star hotels and apartments which market to the mastream but bee of their proximy to the Goln Gay Mile of Oxford Street, Oxford Street bars, rtrants and specialty shops, attract a very high proportn of Gay and Lbian clientele.

Mastream, but gay-iendly hotels and apartments are somewhat removed om the Gay Strip but offer the lights of Sydney's favoure attractns to the Gay and Lbian traveller. Choic for the gay and lbian traveller. A fantastic mix of gltery night life and sun drenched daytime has placed Sydney firmly on the Gay Plac To Vis map.

BARS - OXFORD HOTEL

Naturally, big Gay events such as the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras and Sprg time Sydney Sleaze Ball offer too bright a flame for the gay moth to rist. Sydney however, is a year round gay place to vis. Many regnal areas, om close-by untry towns to further a field New Zealand, South Pacific Islands and South East Asia have emptied much of their Gay and Lbian youth to Sydney's vibrant ner-cy Gay preccts.

LEGENDARY OXFORD STREET GAY CLUB ARQ HAS ANNOUNCED AN OPENG DATE

Suburbs such as Darlghurst, Paddgton, Surry Hills, Moore Park, Newtown, Glebe and Leichhardt engenr the eedom and fun of the morn Gay liftyle. The exclively Gay hotel has bee a victim of moratg muny attus and the clivens of the morn smopolan culture Sydney now reprents.

Gay acmodatn optns are endls, as almost everywhere Sydney's cy centre one would now nsir Gay-iendly. So, your choice is whether to seek out the Gay heart of Sydney among the sights and sounds of famo Oxford Street, or relish the Sydney experience embodied s many world renowned attractns. You n immerse yourself the Gay experience around Darlghurst and Surry Hills, take a twirl on the doorstep of the Gay Goln Mile amongst the burgeong bars and clamberg clubs.

Every pop song unr the sun and a weddg-receptn-gone-wild vibe that n't be beatThis no-ills dive bar is one of the most beloved clubs on the ma gay drag of Oxford Street.

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

From private rooms and apartments to LGBTQ-iendly hotels, you have the optn to stay the heart of gay districts as well as other neighborhoods the plac you vis. A loft Soho, a shared room Barcelona or the Castro, a gay-iendly hotel Le Marais or Chelsea, experience misterb&b all gay travel statns! Gay and lbian mixed crowd Air ndngBar wh full range of alholic beveragNon-smokg areaOutdoor seatg, terrace or garnVegetarian meals on the menuExtensive we listFree ndomsLive micShows or other events.

Large fé and rtrant on two floors the gay area. Gay Hot Spots. Palm Sprgs is only two hours drive om Los Angel and has long been a popular getaway for Californians as well as gay men om all over the US...

THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY

Lrdale has bee a gay-vatn Mec. It is home to a large gay muny, the lol ernment is gay-iendly and a growg number of bs ter to gay tourists... She sashays on heels near the fortrs-like sandstone cells of the former Darlghurst police statn, where gural Sydney Gay Mardi Gras revellers were held and beaten by police 1978, back when beg queer was a crimal offence.

GAY SYDNEY HOTELS

’ Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggs/The GuardianThe first Gay Mardi Gras, held on 24 June 1978. Photograph: Atralian Queer Archiv IncThe Cy of Sydney is fg ahead wh plans to revalise the strip, as hundreds of thoands of lol and ternatnal revellers prepare to march or cheer along s six traffic lan for this year’s Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras on Saturday.

Some say the revelry masks the s of tolerance: an article last week for the queer newspaper Star Observer, the activist Rodney Croome dubbed Sydney the natn’s most homophobic and transphobic cy for havg the “worst attus and laws” on equaly. On Oxford Street, queer venu such as the Oxford, Arq, Stonewall and the Colombian have survived, gmented om Friday by the activatn of “Pri villag” nearby Crown and Riley streets celebratg “the gaybourhood”, wh Oxford Street set to host a street party on 4 and 5 Colombian Hotel on Oxford Street.

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

“Not only is the epicentre of Oxford Street, was a place where gay men and lbians were taken and btally bashed and mistreated – not jt on the night of the ’78 march, but s before and s after, ” Qtopia’s founr David Polson tells Guardian Atralia. A gay Gadigal man, Graham Simms, who also has Bidjigal, Yu, and Dag leage, and whose drag alter ego is Nana Miss Koori, says Oxford Street needs more Indigeno culture, cludg a permanent drop- cultural centre and employment of Indigeno people.

THE COLOMBIAN HOTELSYDNEYMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGE + BUDGETHOTELS · DISUNTSON TODAYBARSDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSSNASBEACH SERVICTOURSCY GUIGAY MAPTHE COLOMBIAN HOTEL

Kgs Cross “ed to be where mp life existed” until the 1960s, when US servicemen based nearby would mete out vlence agast gay men, who migrated along wh venu to Oxford Street search of safety and cheaper rents. Hers was the late 90s and early 2000s, when she found her feet not only as a drag queen but as a gay person as well, wh red ribbon driv and World Aids remembers performg St Vcent hospal’s ward 17, for patients who were dyg om Aids, which is now beg “recreated” by Qtopia as a temporary art exhibn at the Natnal Art School. The Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras para will be held on Saturday 25 Febary.

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. 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. That we attribute to gay hate crime have not been solved, ' he said.

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'.