Mardi Gras: Victoria’s shameful history of gay murrs, hate crim | Herald Sun

Contents:

• MAN’S FURY OVER ‘PRAVED’ TOILET ACT SPARKS BATE OVER GAY BEATS
• ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK
• TOP TEN GAYT SONGS EVER
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS GEELONG

MAN’S FURY OVER ‘PRAVED’ TOILET ACT SPARKS BATE OVER GAY BEATS

”But another acced the poster of homophobia. Gay men? Sharg a screenshot of the post to the “Marrickville Rantg/Complats” page, she mocked the man sayg he had “accintally happened across a ‘beat’” — public plac where gay men meet for sex.

”One woman agreed, “The historil beats should be honoured for the role they played gay male life and culture this cy and others. I’m an old school gay, so ’s neato, groovy, and crazy ol that beats still exist. Acrdg to an SBS Pri article om 2016, beats — which “explod” the 1960s and ‘70s — are “still around and very much a part of gay culture”.

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“I spect that you may have gone to the toilet block to seek out a homosexual to punish him, ” the judge said, addg that such a provotn as Prchard scribed was “worth one or two blows” at the scribed Everett as an “offensive, shortsighted homosexual” and sentenced Prchard to 16 years’ jail wh a non-parole perd of 12 years. A LIFE CUT SHORTThirty years after his murr, Brent’s sister, Karan Dawson, remembers him as a “gentle, different” person, shorter than average and slight of build, who was “jt startg to ga the nfince to be who he was” he was born almost bld and forced to wear thick glass to rrect his visn, he was a skilled artist who uld recreate fac and landsp wh nothg more than a sexualy was “never spoken about”, and Ms Dawson says wasn’t until her brother’s ath that their fay fally me to terms wh the fact that he was gay. ” A NATIONWIDE PROBLEMToday, ’s a mon misnceptn the historil murrs and asslts of gay men were nfed to New South Wal.

While Sydney was the facto gay bashg pal the ’80s and ‘90s, gay bashgs and murrs were ightengly mon Victoria the same 1991, The Age reported the gay murr rate Melbourne was “around two-thirds that of Sydney, wh a killg, on average, every two or three months”.

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Bashgs were also ls equent Melbourne but mon enough to warrant the creatn of a Police Lbian and Gay Liaison Commtee (PLGLC) to al wh the creasg number of believed the dispary was simply a matter of geography. “Melbourne gay muny life do not have the geographil foc of Sydney’s, so you don’t get bashed as often walkg down the street Melbourne, ” a member of the PLGLC claimed spoke of the cultural differenc between the two ci.

“Partly the gay muny here is a reflectn of the culture of Melbourne, ” an aniser of the 1990 queer Midsumma Ftival explaed. Beg outrageo is ls a part of gay culture here.

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”Ined, pared wh Sydney, Melbourne’s gay muny was often scribed much r terms. In the early 1990s, The Age labelled Sydney’s “staid and reprsed southern sister” and “more unrstated than s Sydney unterpart” same uld be said about many of the men who equented Melbourne’s toilet blocks and lh, sprawlg parks the hop of meetg other men for didn’t intify as gay at all; others were married, eply closeted and leadg outwardly heterosexual liv. He managed to crawl 20 metr before he died and was disvered by two women on their way to a Christmas party the next was a “known homosexual” who had recently left his fay and bought expensive cloth and killer, 35-year-old Robert Thomas Hugh, shot him twice, cludg the gro, before robbg him and leavg him for ad.