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Contents:

• GAY GUI TO KOGARAH
• GAY CLUB KOGARAH
• GAY AREA KOGARAH
• NSW POLICE: HUNTG GAY MEN AT BEATS
• ON THE BEAT: BATE ON PUBLIC SEX DIVIDG THE GAY MUNY
• AN EX-AOL VP SPENT 30 YEARS VTIGATG HIS BROTHER'S GOME MURR. HIS SEARCH WOULD REVEAL A WAVE OF ANTIGAY VLENCE AND A POLICE FORCE ADLY NIAL OF THE TTH.
• IS TROYE SIVAN’S ‘RH’ SEXY FUN OR GAY DETR?
• WHAT I LEARNED WORKG A NAKED GAY BAR
• THE JOURNALIST WHO CHANGED HOW WE SEE GAY AMERI
• 'UGLY PART OF OUR HISTORY': SYDNEY'S WAVE OF GAY-HATE ATHS EXPOSED

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GAY CLUB KOGARAH

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NSW POLICE: HUNTG GAY MEN AT BEATS

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. 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.

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. ) But if you are one of the gay/bi men out there, like many of , who don't get that same sh om Grdr that you do om furtive eye glanc the sna -- which turn to so much more -- then this article is for you: the 5 do's and 5 don'ts of gay cisg.

ON THE BEAT: BATE ON PUBLIC SEX DIVIDG THE GAY MUNY

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. 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. The issue of beats and beat ers explod onto the pag of Sydney’s gay and lbian newspapers — and to the foreont of queer muny nscns — November 2008 wh the lnch of the Sydney Beat Project, now lled the Beat Project.

AN EX-AOL VP SPENT 30 YEARS VTIGATG HIS BROTHER'S GOME MURR. HIS SEARCH WOULD REVEAL A WAVE OF ANTIGAY VLENCE AND A POLICE FORCE ADLY NIAL OF THE TTH.

“We were ncerned would get back to the days when beg a gay man was illegal, when police regularly harassed men at beats and ed pla-clothed officers to entrap and charge men, ” says project -ordator Richard Capuano, who regularly monors police behavur at his lol beat Sydney.

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.

IS TROYE SIVAN’S ‘RH’ SEXY FUN OR GAY DETR?

At his mastream school, teachers refe to schle his class on the ground floor, and at his llege for disabled stunts, he’s told he will be expelled if the mors are te, if he’s gay.

Noone's sister said a police officer had told her brother was a "poofter, " rogatory slang for a gay also told police that Stt had unsuccsfully tried to kill himself three years before by nearly jumpg om San Francis's Goln Gate Bridge bee he feared he had AIDS. As the post-Stonewall US, Atralia's gay muny had bee creasgly visible the 1970s and ' December 8, 1988, Stt was Sydney, where he discsed his rearch wh his adviser. He didn't rpond to repeated requts for ment for this the qut, a Manly tective sergeant also ttified that some areas Sydney were popular wh gay men.

The thori at the time never rolved the first disappearance and emed the other two the qut termed that two of them had been murred and the third man had also likely been murred by rovg teenagers "who as a pack bashed, robbed, and murred men at known gay beats, " plac where gay men would ngregate for sual sex, the Herald reported. "Dirty f------ maggot … he should have gone went off the cliff that night but he didn't … we went down and put a cigarette butt out on his head, " one man prison for antigay vlence was secretly rerd as sayg 1991.

WHAT I LEARNED WORKG A NAKED GAY BAR

Begng 2001, dozens of wns, ps, victims, and perpetrators of related antigay vlence New South Wal ttified about the vlence at a park near Bondi Beach, Sydney's eastern suburbs.

THE JOURNALIST WHO CHANGED HOW WE SEE GAY AMERI

"Acrdg to the roner's statement acpanyg the fished quiry, New South Wal police the 1980s and 1990s knew a number of gangs "systematilly engaged the asslt and robbery of gay men" at Sydney beats.

But suggted, at last, what actually happened to Steve would e to learn, the eedom Stt enjoyed Atralia existed alongsi a risg ti of antigay bigotry. "The 'fact' that gays ed AIDS was ed to jtify sheer prejudice and vlence towards homosexuals, " historian Pl Sendzi wrote "Learng to Tst: Atralian Rpons to AIDS.

'UGLY PART OF OUR HISTORY': SYDNEY'S WAVE OF GAY-HATE ATHS EXPOSED

" ACON, then the AIDS Council of New South Wal, tracked vlent cints agast gays, tallyg more than 20 daily attacks on certa Steve, horrifyg knowledge replaced more than 15 years of excciatg uncertaty. His light sentence was particularly cur bee ntrasted wh other members of his gang, one of whom plead guilty and served five years' hard 2017, Dunn McNab, a former Manly crimal vtigator, published "Gettg Away Wh Murr, " a book on Sydney's s of antigay vlence.

The revelatn that gay men stripped and arranged their cloth neatly explaed why Stt was naked and his cloth were fold, one of the biggt mysteri for Steve. Nearly two s after Stt had died, an fluential and experienced New South Wal public official suggted that she thought Stt's se should be reopened bee f the pattern of antigay murrs. "The JOHNSON se is not 'eerily siar' as scribed by GLICK his rrponnce and is geographilly distant om the s" of antigay asslts that occurred, the tective wrote.

As evince for that claim, the tective ced only the police's earlier claim that North Head wasn't a tective also wrote that Michael Noone had prevly wrten to the police wh a startlg claim: Steve rejected Stt's homosexualy. They were the only police charged durg the entire vtigatn; the rt rigned om the force or vtigators remend agast chargg Patison and Raymond Peattie, two of the most rpt Manly police officers, acrdg to Operatn Florida's fdgs, had led the vtigatn to Vojko Spada, the man nvicted of assltg gay men Sydney around the time Stt died. "But the police, facg a huge backlog of unsolved murrs, did not seem eager to vtigate this ld se om 1988 of a gay Amerin, pecially sce st a spotlight on what was, at bt, their own poor late 2012, "Atralian Story, " a proment natnal televisn news program, approached Steve about dog an entire 29-mute episo on his s-long qut for jtice.