‘I was totally gripped wh fear’: quiry exam 40 years of gay hate crim | LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardian

Contents:

• NSW POLICE: HUNTG GAY MEN AT BEATS
• ‘MEN WERE STTERG EVERYWHERE’: QUIRY HEARS OF STRG OF VLENT CINTS AT SYDNEY GAY BEATS
• GUILTY VERDICT FOR 1987 MURR SYDNEY 'GAY BEAT'
• TRIBUT FLOW FOR MAN WHO INSTALLED GLORY HOL IN NEWSTLE’S GAY BEATS
• THE BEST NEWSTLE UPON TYNE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEWSTLE UPON TYNE
• THE BEST NEWSTLE UPON TYNE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEWSTLE UPON TYNE
• NEWSTLE GAY SNAS
• ‘I WAS TOTALLY GRIPPED WH FEAR’: QUIRY EXAM 40 YEARS OF GAY HATE CRIM
• GUILTY VERDICT FOR 1987 MURR SYDNEY 'GAY BEAT'

NSW POLICE: HUNTG GAY MEN AT BEATS

Photograph of Newstle Beach, an area well-known the gay muny for s beats, the 1950s. Much of my rearch for this project me om the book Out the Valley: Hunter gay and lbian histori[7] (2010), which is one of the most substantial, and well rearched wrten acunts of Newstle’s queer history. I also ed the Atralian Lbian and Gay archiv[8] as a mol for wrg queer history.

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

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GUILTY VERDICT FOR 1987 MURR SYDNEY 'GAY BEAT'

As Garry Wotherspoon observ: “[H]omosexuals have been imagative creatg other for a range of stutns … sce the ways which heterosexuals n meet each other openly are not available to homosexuals. Brought to you by the Atralian Lbian and Gay Archiv. Beats ed to be a place where men uld meet before gay pri movements won the right to meet pubs and clubs.

Beat ers have reported hourly patrols by several police vehicl, vert patrols on foot, the wrongful "banng" people om the area for 28 days, rogatory personal ments, threats to e pepper spray, e of unnecsary force, arrt whout charge and other homophobic behavur. In a letter to cy admistrators, LECD says that by regulatg sex public, the safety of homosexuals om "queer-bashers" n be better guaranteed.

Communy Actn Agast Homophobia (CAAH) is mpaigng to end harassment of men Sydney beats and will provi onle rmatn for beat ers to bee better rmed of their rights when approached by police.

TRIBUT FLOW FOR MAN WHO INSTALLED GLORY HOL IN NEWSTLE’S GAY BEATS

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. “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.

Raymond Keam was fatally bashed 1987 a Sydney park known as a gay beat. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO)A 36-year-old ld se is nearg s long-overdue ncln after a jury returned a guilty verdict for murr at a well-known gay beat Sydney's east.

THE BEST NEWSTLE UPON TYNE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEWSTLE UPON TYNE

A NSW Supreme Court jury returned s guilty verdict on Wednday after hearg that Early had attacked the 43-year-old martial arts expert Randwick's Alison Park spectg he was homosexual.

THE BEST NEWSTLE UPON TYNE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEWSTLE UPON TYNE

A post-mortem examatn revealed he died om severe head juri and a 1988 qut found Mr Keam died after beg stck by a person or persons Park had a reputatn for beg a gay beat, crown prosecutor Ken McKay SC told the jury as the trial verdict spe a wholly circumstantial se beg brought agast Early wh no wns seeg he had any ntact wh Mr June 2021 a $1 ln reward was offered for rmatn about the was arrted at a home Clayton, Victoria two months later and was extraded to NSW where he remaed for the Keam's hherto unsolved ath was one of 88 killgs between 1976 and 2000 recently reviewed by police probg potential gay-hate vlence and allegatns of prr intified as heterosexual, was divorced om one woman and a facto relatnship wh another, havg a child wh each. Reddors have paid tribute to a man who rved out glory hol gay beats around Newstle for s.

NEWSTLE GAY SNAS

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‘I WAS TOTALLY GRIPPED WH FEAR’: QUIRY EXAM 40 YEARS OF GAY HATE CRIM

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Now 88, Peterk told the special missn of quiry to LGBTQ+ hate crim Sydney this week that he’d been targeted for beg gay as far back as the 1950s, when he was arrted by unrver police at a known meet-up spot. His acunt gave a glimpse to the experienc of a ral gay man whose life spans the quiry’s reference dat, 1970 to jt a few days of heargs, the broast snapshot ever of ral and regnal LGBTQ+ hate crim has e to light.

GUILTY VERDICT FOR 1987 MURR SYDNEY 'GAY BEAT'

In the 1950s he moved to Sydney to take up teachg 1956, 28 years before homosexualy was crimalised NSW, he was arrted by a police officer posg as a gay man at a North Sydney ‘beat’, a public toilet or other public place equented by men seekg ntact, often sexual, wh same-sex attracted men.

Homophobic people knew that homosexual men would attend a public toilet and would lie wa.

”Country men killed spected hate crime attacksThe quiry has listed two unsolved aths of gay men om regnal areas who may have been killed. Both men later died of signifint head Miller, om Orange the New South Wal central wt, attend the annual Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras March 1997. Parrabell also looked at the ath of 33-year-old Rsell Payne, who was found ad his home at Inverell 1989; and the ath of 36-year-old Graham Paynter, whose body was disvered at the base of a cliff at Tathra on the state’s far-south ast the same ’s ath was tegorised as a spected crime of “bias”, but the Parrabell report stated that evince of gay hate was eher not found the other ral s, or there was sufficient rmatn llected durg ial police quiri to now tegorise any motive for them.