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Contents:

• GAY SNAS SYDNEY
• DRAMATIC GRDR ENUNTER AT A PARK ADDS CHAPTER TO SYDNEY’S GAY HISTORY
• THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY
• BUNKER PARIS- CLOSEDPARISMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGEHOTELS · BUDGETON TODAYBARSLBIAN BARSDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSSNASSHOPSMASSAGECAFéSSERVICCY GUIGAY MAPTOURSBUNKER PARIS- CLOSED
• NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY
• GAY SYDNEY · CY GUI

GAY SNAS SYDNEY

While Oxford Street is still the se of many of the longt-nng gay clubs Sydney, the fun isn’t relegated to Darlghurst alone. If you’re keen to really make a night of , keep an eye on the lik of Heaps Gay, Poof Doof, Hoe of Mce, Honcho Disko and Birdge (as well as the social media-elive Kooky) to fd out when their next soiree start planng your next night out, read on for our gui to some of Sydney’s favoure gay clubs, pubs and bars.

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

Chg-a-lgsSure, ’s not officially a gay bar, but Chg-a-lgs draws a pendably queer crowd. The ColombianOpen 9am ‘til 6am every day — y, you read that right — this sprawlg Oxford St hnt n always be unted on for a tipple the early 117-125 Oxford St, DarlghurstYou n fd all the tails for this year's Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras here. Warren and Edn choose a two-seater bench Green Park, Sydney’s gay-iendly ner-cy Darlghurst – a safe public space to ially appraise one another the (Steve Le Marquand) is his late 50s.

He lls himself straight and thks of himself as happily married to the woman wh whom he liv a regnal has been beaten up the past, and remembers the moral csa to punish gay men at the peak of the AIDS crisis.

Cred: Steven SiewertEdn (Joseph Althoe) intifi as queer rather than gay yet hems himself to the archetype of the “twk”: a photogenic, cute young man wh a skny build. While the earlier versn of Green Park revolved around hookg up the park, was set a Darlghurst admired what the play had to say about the behavural chasms between different generatns of gay men, and the unexpected plexi of the two characters, as well as s ntemporary ronance: “It really engag the ‘missn acplished’ set of expectatns the straight world has of the LGBTQIA world, particularly the gay world, ” he says. … But so much ridual trma exists the gay world, and a lot of is exprsed laterally the way gay men hurt each other, are not munal-md and still engaged sometim a real battle for self-prervatn that means they n be terrified of vulnerabily and beg open.

THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY

”'But so much ridual trma exists the gay world, and a lot of is exprsed laterally the way gay men hurt each other.

BUNKER PARIS- CLOSEDPARISMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGEHOTELS · BUDGETON TODAYBARSLBIAN BARSDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSSNASSHOPSMASSAGECAFéSSERVICCY GUIGAY MAPTOURSBUNKER PARIS- CLOSED

Audience members watchg Green Park might notice the large pk triangle stallatn, a memorial to queer men and women murred durg the Holot, who had to wear pk triangl stched to their clothg to note their spised sexual the bottom of the hill is St Vcent’s Hospal, where many AIDS patients were treated and across the fenced si of the park is the palliative re hospice where some are also shadows of the gay scene’s nghtier si. Edn is obssed wh his self-worth based on enumeratn: the numbers of followers on Instagram and “flame” ins om potential sex partners on the actual Green Park “looks like a nice place where gays active wear n walk their signer dogs”, says Greene. Tripadvisor performs checks on had a nice time at the gay bar here although everythg was jt a ltle sticky on the night we went.

The unvarnished fact is that late at night, Marks Park, a grassy verge ppg the headland and the ncrete pathway skirtg the cliff face, had been a gay beat – a place where homosexual men would socialise and hook up – sce at least the late 1920s.

Gangs like the Bondi Boys (otherwise known by their graffi tag PTK, or People that Kill) would prowl here, rryg out brazen acts of vlence; ’s likely that at least a few were serial offenrs; perpetrators of an anti-gay murr spree that swept across Sydney at the is no simple whodunn; volv a tangled tale of hate crim volvg multiple spects, gangs prisg up to 30 members, some of whom circulated among other gangs across Sydney, posg a dark mosaic of murr. This is a lot more than n be said for the other men killed here, or for that matter, the vast majory of other murrs of gay men blightg Sydney at the a year to the day earlier, on another eezg night July 1989, Ross Warren, a handsome, charismatic weatherman and newsrear om WIN-TV Wollongong, vanished on this headland the early hours of a Saturday morng. ”In what was perhaps another watershed moment this year, a 75-year-old man was arrted for the murr of Raymond Keam, a martial arts expert and father of two who was found beaten to ath January 1987 at Alison Park, Randwick, then a well-known gay beat Sydney’s east.

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

As Sue Thompson, a former state ombudsman’s vtigator who joed the police force 1990 to ordate s liaison wh the gay and lbian muny, tells me the podst: “Cliffs were the easit weapon; you didn’t have to rry anythg wh you.

GAY SYDNEY · CY GUI

”“Thgs did not change magilly 1984 [when homosexualy was crimalised NSW].

”For Thompson, beg a liaison officer was eply personal: one of her close iends, a gay man, had been murred only months before she took the role, and she was ls than imprsed wh the police rponse.

The gay muny’s mistst of police at the time wasn’t helpg to quell the vlence. “Thgs did not change magilly 1984 [when homosexualy was crimalised NSW], ” Thompson outled one of her reports. It was my job to brg peace between police and the gay and lbian muni and effect anisatnal change police culture.