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Contents:

• NSW POLICE: HUNTG GAY MEN AT BEATS
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS MALAND
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS MALAND
• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS MALAND, FL
• GAY BEAST
• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS MALAND, FL
• ‘MEN WERE STTERG EVERYWHERE’: QUIRY HEARS OF STRG OF VLENT CINTS AT SYDNEY GAY BEATS
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS MALAND
• INQUIRY HEARS OF VLENCE AT GAY BEATS

NSW POLICE: HUNTG GAY MEN AT BEATS

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.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS MALAND

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. Two gay nu beach 45 mut away. Gay Men, Hunter Valley.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS MALAND

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! The Beats, pecially around Gsberg, laid the foundatn for later synergi created by gay poets.

LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS MALAND, FL

After the Send World War, San Francis slowly beme home to both a gay bar subculture and a homophile activist movement, which mostly operated isolatn om each other. There was a burgeong Beat culture North Beach, two homosexual bar payola sndals volvg the police partment and the mayor, and an vasive police crackdown agast gay bars that lasted three years. The San Francis Beats and the gays had a symbtic relatnship.

In a special San Francis issue of Harper's, Bce Bliven wrote that Beats were "young hedonists who don't really re whether somethg is good or evil, as long as is enjoyable." One uld say the same about the unrground culture of gay leathermen that was about to emerge. Homosexualy was part of the North Beach scene.

GAY BEAST

Many of the Beats were homosexual, cludg Gsberg, Jack Spicer, Robert Dunn, and Rob Blaser. Gsberg slashed through gay stereotyp of gay male sexualy wh Howl's celebratn of joyo and even holy sexual unn.

He served as a bridge between the tolerant lerary world and the emergg gay polil scene. Both Beats and gays challenged the nformist prsur of the . Thanks to the Beats, gays uld now view themselv as nonnformists rather than mentally ill rebels wh a e.

LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS MALAND, FL

North Beach was home to gay and lbian bars, cludg the Black Cat, an area stutn, as well as gay cisg areas, wh all spreadg down to Polk Street and to the Tenrlo. Gsberg scribed as "the greatt gay bar Ameri." The bar's owner, Sol Stoumen, was unwillg to make the payoffs expected that era of proprietors whose clientele clud homosexuals.

Th began the nnectn between gay bars and gay polics. He even beme the first out gay person to n for supervisor San Francis. His 5,600 vot forhadowed the powerful polil nstuency that gays and lbians would bee.

The happengs at the Black Cat eventually led to the formatn of the Tavern Guild, a aln of gay bars, 1962. The Guild retaed a lawyer and bail bondsman for anyone arrted or near a gay bar, and published a brochure on how to al wh beg arrted or harassed by policemen. The rise of the Guild gave polil legimacy to gay bars, fendg their right to be ee om arbrary harassment.

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

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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.

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INQUIRY HEARS OF VLENCE AT GAY BEATS

Geni Pictur (“Mrs Lowry & Son, ” “Good Luck To You, Leo Gran”) has optned Emmett Monterey’s acclaimed memoir “Go the Way Your Blood Beats” – about growg up gay and disabled 1980s London – for TV adaptatn.