NSW police lose urt bid to exclu Stt Johnson killg om gay hate quiry | Sydney | The Guardian

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• GAY SYDNEY WRTLG CLUBS, GAY SYDNEY WRTLG PARTNERS
• WRTLG AT THE GAY GAM
• HOW WRTLG MA ME GAY
• MARDI GRAS FEATUR GAY WRTLG TOURNAMENTWRTLG HAS FOUND A HOME WH SYDNEY'S GAY MUNY, BEG A REGULAR PART OF THE ANNUAL GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS FTIVAL.(TRANSCRIPT OM WORLD NEWS RAD)IT'S ONE OF THE OLST SPORTS KNOWN TO HUMANY AND EVINCE EXISTS THAT DIFFERENT FORMS OF WRTLG HAVE BEEN PRACTISED FOR THOANDS OF YEARS MANY DIFFERENT CULTUR.A TYPE OF BAT SPORT, WRTLG VOLV GRAPPLG WH AN OPPONENT A SERI OF MOV THAT VARY ACRDG TO THE TYPE OF WRTLG PRACTICED.AND BEYOND THE MASTREAM WRTLG WORLD, THE SPORT HAS ALSO FOUND A HOME WH SYDNEY'S GAY MUNY, BEG A REGULAR PART OF SYDNEY'S GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS FTIVAL.PEGGY GIAKOUMELOS REPORTS.IT'S FRIDAY NIGHT AT A GYM NER CY SYDNEY.ON THE SEND FLOOR OF THE GYM LARGE THICK PK AND BLUE SPONGE MATS LE THE FLOOR.THEY'RE THERE TO CHN THE EVABLE FALLS THAT OCCURS DURG A WRTLG TRAG SSN.STT FERNANZ IS ONE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SYDNEY SILVERBACKS WHO ARE TRAG AT THE GYM TONIGHT.IT'S A GAY-IENDLY WRTLG CLUB THAT'S BEEN AROUND SCE THE EARLY 1990S."OFTEN THERE'S A LOT OF PERCEPTN OUT THERE THAT GAY GUYS, MIGHT NOT BE MASCULE OR MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO DO THOSE TYP OF SPORT THAT VOLV AGGRSN OR PUTTG YOURSELF OUT THERE. SO I THK A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE CUR TO E ALONG AND SAY: 'OH YOU'RE DOG A SPORT THAT VOLV PHYSIL NTACT AND LEVELS OF AGGRSN'. I THK PROVIS THAT SAFE ENVIRONMENT WHERE YOU N EXPLORE THAT SI OF YOU AND YOU N TERACT WH OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE LIKE-MD. AND THERE'S A PROFSNAL ACH THERE AND ALL THE TECHNIQU WE LEARN ARE SAFE. SO REALLY PROVIS THAT REAL PLATFORM FOR EXPLORG WHAT YOUR BODY N DO AND WHAT N DO WH OTHER PEOPLE. IN A VERY IENDLY SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT."THE GROUP NS AN ANNUAL TOURNAMENT AS PART OF SYDNEY'S GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS FTIVAL.SOME MEMBERS ARE ALSO PLANNG TO ATTEND AND PETE THE GAY GAM THE UNED STAT LATER THIS YEAR.MEMBER, BRENDAN JON SAYS THERE IS STILL A NEED FOR SPORTG EVENTS AND CLUBS THAT TER SPECIFILLY TO NON-HETEROSEXUAL ATHLET.HE SAYS THIS IS BEE THERE'S STILL A LOT OF DISCRIMATN THE SPORTG WORLD."A LLEAGUE OF ME AT WORK, A STRAIGHT LLEAGUE, WE WERE TALKG ABOUT THE GAY GAM WHICH IS G UP A FEW MONTHS. AND HE WAS SAYG WHY DO YOU NEED THE GAY GAM? AND I HAD TROUBLE ARTICULATG , BEE HE HASN'T EXPERIENCED THAT KD OF DISCRIMATN BEFORE. BUT EVENTUALLY I JT SAID TO HIM: 'OK, NAME ME 10 CURRENTLY PETG GAY OLYMPIANS'. AND EVEN I ULD ONLY E UP WH THREE OR FOUR OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD. AND I SAID THAT'S WHY. IT IS A BEE THERE IS STILL THAT DISCRIMATN THERE, SO I WOULD SAY, YEAH, 'S STILL ONE OF THE BIGGT BARRIERS."ABOUT 20 MEN ARE ATTENDANCE AT TONIGHT'S TRAG SSN - MEN OF ALL SHAP, AG AND SIZ.THE CLUB PRACTIC OLYMPIC FRETYLE WRTLG.MICHAEL IS ALSO A MEMBER.HE JOED THE CLUB FOUR YEARS AGO AS A BEGNER.HE SCRIB HOW OLYMPIC FRETYLE WRTLG DIFFERS OM OTHER FORMS OR WRTLG."IN OLYMPIC FRETYLE YOU E YOUR WHOLE BODY, WHILE SOME OF THE OTHER ON LIKE GRE-ROMAN YOU N ONLY E THE UPPER BODY, YOU N'T E LEGS AND SO ON. HOWEVER, I MT POT OUT WE'RE NOT OUT TO HURT ANYBODY. WH WRTLG YOU ARE TO DOMATE. IT'S VERY STRICTLY REGULATED. FRETYLE JT HAPPENS TO BE THE ONE WE DO. THERE'S A WHOLE LOT OF OTHER ON. THERE'S GRE-ROMAN WHICH THE UPPER BODY. THERE'S GRAPPLG, BRAZILIAN JUJSU WHICH A LOT OF WRTLG. IN FACT, 'S VERY TERTG BEE WE FD SOME OF THE BRAZILIAN WRTLERS E TO TO LEARN A FEW TECHNIQU AND VICE-VISA VERSA. OR THE GRAPPLG GUYS. WE'VE EVEN HAD GBY PLAYERS E ALONG TO WRTLE BEE TEACH THEM ABOUT TAKE DOWNS, TACKL THAT SORT OF THG. AND THAT KD OF CROSS-FERTILISATN IS QUE EFUL."NICK PRTON HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF THE SILVERBACKS FOR ABOUT TWO YEARS AND HAS ALSO PETED TOURNAMENTS.HE SAYS HE FOUND GOG TO THE GYM JT TO DO EXERCIS UNSPIRG, AND WANTED TO DO A FORM OF EXERCISE THAT WAS BOTH SOCIAL AND ALLOWED HIM TO E HIS BODY A CHALLENGG WAY."I THK THAT WHEN YOU START WRTLG YOUR BODY ACH A LOT, BUT 'S FUNNY OVER TIME YOU ADAPT TO , YOU LEARN TO E YOUR BODY WAYS THAT YOU DIDN'T KNOW WAS POSSIBLE. YOU HAVE MCL THAT YOU DIDN'T KNOW EXISTED. SO 'S JT TERTG TERMS OF FLEXIBILY AND STRENGTH AND I FD A LOT MORE FULFILLG THAT JT GOG TO THE GYM. AND YOU GET TO WEAR REALLY SEXY SGLETS."MICHAEL SAYS HE HAS PETED TOURNAMENTS THE PAST, AN EXPERIENCE THAT WAS MALY POSIVE.ON SOME OCSNS THOUGH, ATHLET OM OTHER CLUBS TOOK ISSUE WH HIS SEXUALY, REFG TO WRTLE WH HIM."I'VE EXPERIENCED SUATNS WHERE OPEN MAT SSNS, SOME OF THE STRAIGHT GUYS ARE RELUCTANT TO WRTLE WH , WHICH IS REALLY ANNOYG. I'M NOT SURE WHAT THEY'RE SRED OF. BUT ON THE OTHER HAND I THK 'S PROBABLY QUE OL THAT THEY'RE SRED. BEE YOU WANT YOUR OPPONENT TO BE SRED. SO Y, I THK THERE IS A B DISCRIMATN BUT, I THK THAT WHAT REALLY UNTS IS THAT WE'RE OUT THERE AND PEOPLE MEET AND THEY SEE AND THEY REALISE THAT WE'RE AS SER AS THEY ARE AND PROBABLY AS GOOD SOMETIM. I THK CHANG PERCEPTNS 'S ALL ABOUT KNOWG PEOPLE AND THE FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN."THE SILVERBACKS WILL BE MARCHG THE SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS ON MARCH THE 1ST.AND SBS WILL BROADST THE 2014 SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS PARA ON SUNDAY MARCH 2 AT 8.30PM ON SBS 2.SHARE6 M READPUBLISHED 27 FEBARY 2014 7:52PMUPDATED 28 FEBARY 2014 8:37AMSOURCE: WORLD NEWS ATRALIASHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU
• NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY
• ‘MEN WERE STTERG EVERYWHERE’: QUIRY HEARS OF STRG OF VLENT CINTS AT SYDNEY GAY BEATS
• SYDNEY MAN GETS 12 YEARS FOR MURRG GAY AMERIN 1988
• OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• DRAMATIC GRDR ENUNTER AT A PARK ADDS CHAPTER TO SYDNEY’S GAY HISTORY
• SYDNEY GAY ‘24 RECG PROFILE
• HERE'S EVERY 2020 SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS FLOAT NNG ORR

GAY SYDNEY WRTLG CLUBS, GAY SYDNEY WRTLG PARTNERS

There are many Sydney Gay Wrtlg Clubs out there, but Fns Sgl is simply the. bt club to meet Sydney Gay Wrtlg Partners hands down!

for exercise iends and partners who share their Gay Wrtlg passn. for the Sydney Gay Wrtlg Partner you have been lookg for!

Wrtlg Gay Men •. GAY GAMES III - Vanuver - 1990</a>.

WRTLG AT THE GAY GAM

GAY GAMES IV - New York - 1994.

GAY GAMES V - Amsterdam - 1998. GAY GAMES VI - Sydney - 2002. GAY GAMES VII - Chigo - 2006.

HOW WRTLG MA ME GAY

* — Denot member of Hall of MerGay Gam VII Medal Standgs. GAY GAMES VIII - Cologne - 2010. Gay Gam VIII Medal Standgs.

||Gay Gam photo/Matthias Ebert.

MARDI GRAS FEATUR GAY WRTLG TOURNAMENTWRTLG HAS FOUND A HOME WH SYDNEY'S GAY MUNY, BEG A REGULAR PART OF THE ANNUAL GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS FTIVAL.(TRANSCRIPT OM WORLD NEWS RAD)IT'S ONE OF THE OLST SPORTS KNOWN TO HUMANY AND EVINCE EXISTS THAT DIFFERENT FORMS OF WRTLG HAVE BEEN PRACTISED FOR THOANDS OF YEARS MANY DIFFERENT CULTUR.A TYPE OF BAT SPORT, WRTLG VOLV GRAPPLG WH AN OPPONENT A SERI OF MOV THAT VARY ACRDG TO THE TYPE OF WRTLG PRACTICED.AND BEYOND THE MASTREAM WRTLG WORLD, THE SPORT HAS ALSO FOUND A HOME WH SYDNEY'S GAY MUNY, BEG A REGULAR PART OF SYDNEY'S GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS FTIVAL.PEGGY GIAKOUMELOS REPORTS.IT'S FRIDAY NIGHT AT A GYM NER CY SYDNEY.ON THE SEND FLOOR OF THE GYM LARGE THICK PK AND BLUE SPONGE MATS LE THE FLOOR.THEY'RE THERE TO CHN THE EVABLE FALLS THAT OCCURS DURG A WRTLG TRAG SSN.STT FERNANZ IS ONE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SYDNEY SILVERBACKS WHO ARE TRAG AT THE GYM TONIGHT.IT'S A GAY-IENDLY WRTLG CLUB THAT'S BEEN AROUND SCE THE EARLY 1990S."OFTEN THERE'S A LOT OF PERCEPTN OUT THERE THAT GAY GUYS, MIGHT NOT BE MASCULE OR MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO DO THOSE TYP OF SPORT THAT VOLV AGGRSN OR PUTTG YOURSELF OUT THERE. SO I THK A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE CUR TO E ALONG AND SAY: 'OH YOU'RE DOG A SPORT THAT VOLV PHYSIL NTACT AND LEVELS OF AGGRSN'. I THK PROVIS THAT SAFE ENVIRONMENT WHERE YOU N EXPLORE THAT SI OF YOU AND YOU N TERACT WH OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE LIKE-MD. AND THERE'S A PROFSNAL ACH THERE AND ALL THE TECHNIQU WE LEARN ARE SAFE. SO REALLY PROVIS THAT REAL PLATFORM FOR EXPLORG WHAT YOUR BODY N DO AND WHAT N DO WH OTHER PEOPLE. IN A VERY IENDLY SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT."THE GROUP NS AN ANNUAL TOURNAMENT AS PART OF SYDNEY'S GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS FTIVAL.SOME MEMBERS ARE ALSO PLANNG TO ATTEND AND PETE THE GAY GAM THE UNED STAT LATER THIS YEAR.MEMBER, BRENDAN JON SAYS THERE IS STILL A NEED FOR SPORTG EVENTS AND CLUBS THAT TER SPECIFILLY TO NON-HETEROSEXUAL ATHLET.HE SAYS THIS IS BEE THERE'S STILL A LOT OF DISCRIMATN THE SPORTG WORLD."A LLEAGUE OF ME AT WORK, A STRAIGHT LLEAGUE, WE WERE TALKG ABOUT THE GAY GAM WHICH IS G UP A FEW MONTHS. AND HE WAS SAYG WHY DO YOU NEED THE GAY GAM? AND I HAD TROUBLE ARTICULATG , BEE HE HASN'T EXPERIENCED THAT KD OF DISCRIMATN BEFORE. BUT EVENTUALLY I JT SAID TO HIM: 'OK, NAME ME 10 CURRENTLY PETG GAY OLYMPIANS'. AND EVEN I ULD ONLY E UP WH THREE OR FOUR OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD. AND I SAID THAT'S WHY. IT IS A BEE THERE IS STILL THAT DISCRIMATN THERE, SO I WOULD SAY, YEAH, 'S STILL ONE OF THE BIGGT BARRIERS."ABOUT 20 MEN ARE ATTENDANCE AT TONIGHT'S TRAG SSN - MEN OF ALL SHAP, AG AND SIZ.THE CLUB PRACTIC OLYMPIC FRETYLE WRTLG.MICHAEL IS ALSO A MEMBER.HE JOED THE CLUB FOUR YEARS AGO AS A BEGNER.HE SCRIB HOW OLYMPIC FRETYLE WRTLG DIFFERS OM OTHER FORMS OR WRTLG."IN OLYMPIC FRETYLE YOU E YOUR WHOLE BODY, WHILE SOME OF THE OTHER ON LIKE GRE-ROMAN YOU N ONLY E THE UPPER BODY, YOU N'T E LEGS AND SO ON. HOWEVER, I MT POT OUT WE'RE NOT OUT TO HURT ANYBODY. WH WRTLG YOU ARE TO DOMATE. IT'S VERY STRICTLY REGULATED. FRETYLE JT HAPPENS TO BE THE ONE WE DO. THERE'S A WHOLE LOT OF OTHER ON. THERE'S GRE-ROMAN WHICH THE UPPER BODY. THERE'S GRAPPLG, BRAZILIAN JUJSU WHICH A LOT OF WRTLG. IN FACT, 'S VERY TERTG BEE WE FD SOME OF THE BRAZILIAN WRTLERS E TO TO LEARN A FEW TECHNIQU AND VICE-VISA VERSA. OR THE GRAPPLG GUYS. WE'VE EVEN HAD GBY PLAYERS E ALONG TO WRTLE BEE TEACH THEM ABOUT TAKE DOWNS, TACKL THAT SORT OF THG. AND THAT KD OF CROSS-FERTILISATN IS QUE EFUL."NICK PRTON HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF THE SILVERBACKS FOR ABOUT TWO YEARS AND HAS ALSO PETED TOURNAMENTS.HE SAYS HE FOUND GOG TO THE GYM JT TO DO EXERCIS UNSPIRG, AND WANTED TO DO A FORM OF EXERCISE THAT WAS BOTH SOCIAL AND ALLOWED HIM TO E HIS BODY A CHALLENGG WAY."I THK THAT WHEN YOU START WRTLG YOUR BODY ACH A LOT, BUT 'S FUNNY OVER TIME YOU ADAPT TO , YOU LEARN TO E YOUR BODY WAYS THAT YOU DIDN'T KNOW WAS POSSIBLE. YOU HAVE MCL THAT YOU DIDN'T KNOW EXISTED. SO 'S JT TERTG TERMS OF FLEXIBILY AND STRENGTH AND I FD A LOT MORE FULFILLG THAT JT GOG TO THE GYM. AND YOU GET TO WEAR REALLY SEXY SGLETS."MICHAEL SAYS HE HAS PETED TOURNAMENTS THE PAST, AN EXPERIENCE THAT WAS MALY POSIVE.ON SOME OCSNS THOUGH, ATHLET OM OTHER CLUBS TOOK ISSUE WH HIS SEXUALY, REFG TO WRTLE WH HIM."I'VE EXPERIENCED SUATNS WHERE OPEN MAT SSNS, SOME OF THE STRAIGHT GUYS ARE RELUCTANT TO WRTLE WH , WHICH IS REALLY ANNOYG. I'M NOT SURE WHAT THEY'RE SRED OF. BUT ON THE OTHER HAND I THK 'S PROBABLY QUE OL THAT THEY'RE SRED. BEE YOU WANT YOUR OPPONENT TO BE SRED. SO Y, I THK THERE IS A B DISCRIMATN BUT, I THK THAT WHAT REALLY UNTS IS THAT WE'RE OUT THERE AND PEOPLE MEET AND THEY SEE AND THEY REALISE THAT WE'RE AS SER AS THEY ARE AND PROBABLY AS GOOD SOMETIM. I THK CHANG PERCEPTNS 'S ALL ABOUT KNOWG PEOPLE AND THE FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN."THE SILVERBACKS WILL BE MARCHG THE SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS ON MARCH THE 1ST.AND SBS WILL BROADST THE 2014 SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS PARA ON SUNDAY MARCH 2 AT 8.30PM ON SBS 2.SHARE6 M READPUBLISHED 27 FEBARY 2014 7:52PMUPDATED 28 FEBARY 2014 8:37AMSOURCE: WORLD NEWS ATRALIASHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU

GAY GAMES IX - Cleveland - 2014. GAY GAMES X - Paris - 2018.

GAY GAMES XI - Hong Kong - 2022. We n weekly wrtlg trag nights, begner workshops, regular tra-club tournaments and participate natnal and ternatnal petns, cludg the Gay Gam.

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

Havg an unrcut 1997 was apparently a gay giveaway. All those gay enablers.

‘MEN WERE STTERG EVERYWHERE’: QUIRY HEARS OF STRG OF VLENT CINTS AT SYDNEY GAY BEATS

I don’t know if dad believed the story that wrtlg ‘ma me gay’, as we’ve never spoken about . I image was hard as a parent the 90s not to be fluenced by the sual homophobia and transphobia that simmered unrneath almost everythg.

To hold some warped belief that only people who failed at parentg end up wh gay kids—bee beg gay was somehow failg at life. And wrtlg was so gay.

SYDNEY MAN GETS 12 YEARS FOR MURRG GAY AMERIN 1988

Even Hulk Hogan, lookg back, was que gay. In my twenti, I had my own gay inty crisis.

OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN

Was I a lbian or was I a gay man? I am grateful for wrtlg—and, yeah, for how ma me gay. A type of bat sport, wrtlg volv grapplg wh an opponent a seri of mov that vary acrdg to the type of wrtlg beyond the mastream wrtlg world, the sport has also found a home wh Sydney's gay muny, beg a regular part of Sydney's Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Giakoumelos 's Friday night at a gym ner cy the send floor of the gym large thick pk and blue sponge mats le the 're there to chn the evable falls that occurs durg a wrtlg trag Fernanz is one of the members of the Sydney Silverbacks who are trag at the gym 's a gay-iendly wrtlg club that's been around sce the early 1990s.

"Often there's a lot of perceptn out there that gay guys, might not be mascule or might not be able to do those typ of sport that volv aggrsn or puttg yourself out there.

"The group ns an annual tournament as part of Sydney's Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras members are also planng to attend and pete The Gay Gam the Uned Stat later this, Brendan Jon says there is still a need for sportg events and clubs that ter specifilly to non-heterosexual says this is bee there's still a lot of discrimatn the sportg world. "A lleague of me at work, a straight lleague, we were talkg about the Gay Gam which is g up a few months. And he was sayg why do you need the Gay Gam?

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

But eventually I jt said to him: 'OK, name me 10 currently petg gay Olympians'. "The Silverbacks will be marchg the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras on March the on Sunday March 2 at 8. A bid by New South Wal police to exclu a high-profile killg om a gay hate quiry has been ath of US mathematician Stt Johnson is one of dozens of s unr the spotlight at a special missn of quiry to spected gay hate crim Sydney between 1970 and 27-year-old died after he was punched at a gay beat on Sydney’s northern beach.

DRAMATIC GRDR ENUNTER AT A PARK ADDS CHAPTER TO SYDNEY’S GAY HISTORY

A 2017 qut termed his ath was a homici, wh fdgs that he “died as a rult of a gay hate attack” viewed by some police as a “feat”. In the latt velopment, Stt Phillip Whe plead guilty to throwg the punch that ultimately ed Johnson to fall to his month, jtice Robert Beech-Jon dismissed “what appears to be an absurd suggtn [by police] that Dr Johnson killed himself” when sentencg Whe to ne years past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotnNSW police had argued Johnson’s ath was outsi the current quiry’s terms of reference on the basis the matter was not unsolved, the man rponsible for his ath intified as gay and a sentencg judge did not fd the ath to be motivated by gay the quiry’s missner, jtice John Sackar, on Tuday led s terms of reference were much wir and answers to qutns such as how and why Johnson died were still not urt did not make a fdg beyond reasonable doubt that Whe was motivated by gay hate, but did not le out the possibily, he is due to hand down his fal report next month.

Men at a popular Sydney gay beat had to stter when a r reered towards them “like was on a kangaroo shoot”, an quiry has r’s headlights and an apparent spotlight were blazg as the r drove at men at Rhcutters Bay Park Sydney’s east the 1990s. “It was a by Saturday night and men were stterg everywhere, nng like the dickens, ” Barry Charl said on 72-year-old longtime gay rights activist was givg evince at the New South Wal Special Commissn of Inquiry to LGBTIQ hate is vtigatg historil hate crim agast the queer muny, particularly a wave of gay hate homicis and other crim Sydney durg the Aids epimic of the 1980s.

“While as a young man om Punchbowl ( Sydney’s wt) I had no ia how to fd a gay bar, beats were somethg I uld fd, ” he equented them between 1969 and 1998, visg at least 40 different on around sex was mostly anonymo and wordls, as the majory wanted to get over and done wh as quickly as possible.

SYDNEY GAY ‘24 RECG PROFILE

“Hangg around for longer than necsary was dangero, bee you knew you uld be apprehend, or were danger of vlence and some men were at risk of beg exposed as gay. CANBERRA, Atralia — An Atralian man was sentenced to 12 years and seven months prison Tuday for the 1988 murr of an Amerin who fell off a Sydney cliff that was known as a gay meetg place. A roner 2017 found a number of asslts, some fatal, where the victims had been targeted bee they were thought to be gay.

Jtice Helen Wilson said she did not fd beyond reasonable doubt that the murr was a gay hate crime, an aggravatg factor that would have led to a longer sentence. Whe's former wife Helen Whe told police 2019 that her then-hband had bragged about beatg gay men and had said the only good gay man was a ad gay man.

Stt Whe told police that he was himself gay and ightened that his homophobic brother would fd out.

HERE'S EVERY 2020 SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS FLOAT NNG ORR

"It should be unrstood that the urt is not sentencg a vlent and reckls young man for a targeted attack on a gay man, " Wilson said. A roner led 2017 that Johnson "fell om the clifftop as a rult of actual or threatened vlence by unintified persons who attacked him bee they perceived him to be homosexual. " The roner also found that gangs of men roamed var Sydney lotns search of gay men to asslt, rultg the aths of some victims.

Sunday’s “Great Midwtern Trendkill” event wasn’t the first time out gay pro wrtler AC Mack stepped to a Naptown All-Pro Wrtlg rg, but will be his last. He is an out gay Black man the South who thrived, buildg human nnectns whose strength manifted the emotnal rponse by the ACTION fanbase when he announced he was leavg -rg petn last month.

Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat.