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Contents:

• THE BT LGBTQI + AND GAY BEACH SYDNEY
• DEEP WATER: WERE 30 UNSOLVED SYDNEY ATHS REALLY GAY HATE CRIM?
• 4. SYDNEY’S NORTH BONDI – TOP 10 GAY BEACH
• STT JOHNSON: MAN NFS TO 1988 GAY HATE MURR
• 10 BT GAY BEACH THE WORLD
• ATRALIA HAS LONG HAD A GAY BEACH SUBCULTURE BUT THEY HAVEN'T ALWAYS BEEN SAFE SPAC
• BT GAY BEACH DTATNS

THE BT LGBTQI + AND GAY BEACH SYDNEY

In 2012 the New South Wal puty state roner Carmel Forb overturned the suici fdg but uld not terme how he police have formed Operatn Parrabell, a team of eight tectiv who will apply an FBI measure of hate bias – creria to terme if a crime is motivated by bias agast, for stance, sexual orientatn – to see if as many as 88 Sydney aths datg om the 1970s onward, cludg 30 unsolved s, were gay hate s were marked suici or e unknown, but past police nclns are now beg lled to qutn. A new SBS vtigatn has unvered “ser mistak” were ma the ial vtigatns, cludg the misspellg of one ad man’s Johnson tells Guardian Atralia that applyg the FBI hate bias creria is unlikely to unver gay hate crim bee the strgent checklist requir s to be solved, perpetrators to be intified and their hatred of victims to be proclaimed.

Instead, he says, a better exercise would be to pull every police file on every ath near a gay Sydney meetg place om the 1970s to about 2000 and ask: was this se properly vtigated? The aim is to attract a natnal dience to the story, and to unver more possible gay hate crim and murrs producer, Darren Dale, says he was spired by hearg 2012 about the murr of Ahmed Ghoniem, who was found Sydney apartment wh multiple stab wounds and blunt trma juri.

The two attacks were unrelated but Dale, who is gay, uldn’t help but pare the public rponse. “I live Potts Pot [ Sydney], and I thought, if there is someone attackg and murrg gay men – more gay people livg there than I spect anywhere else Atralia – then how e ’s not any of the papers, ’s not been the news? Shawn Seet, the director of the ld Canberra polil drama The Co, is at the the prent day, fictnal Detective Senr Constable Tori Ltigman, played by Yael Stone of Orange Is the New Black, her own DNA to see if match DNA found on a piece of lead pipg, which she spects may be her gay brother’s.

DEEP WATER: WERE 30 UNSOLVED SYDNEY ATHS REALLY GAY HATE CRIM?

His 1989 drowng had been rerd as a drama’s central ncerns are: Did the fictnal Kyle “Hammers” Hampton (Craig McLachlan) – a one-time member of a gay-bashg gang – play a role the men’s aths?

Photograph: Sean O'Reilly/SBSThe ‘gay ATM’It was not until 2005, 17 years after Stt Johnson’s ath, that Steve realised his beloved brother might have died vlently: he had been sent a clippg about the vlent aths of three other gay men year the NSW senr puty state roner Jacquele Milledge found that the televisn newsrear Ross Warren, 25, and barman John Rsell, 31, had been murred two separate attacks 1989, most probably thrown off a cliff at Bondi’s Marks Park, which was known as a gay beat.

Photograph: Steve JohnsonSteve Johnson believ, along wh many others, that herent bias play a role both the mimal media verage of the stori and the public and police rponse to vlent crim agast gay people. “I’m unsure what role homophobia played the 1980s, ” he says, “but certaly seemed that the police systematilly avoid vtigatg the aths of gay men, or men prumed to be gay. His brother says this was an implsible ncln: many gay men have told his vtigatn that the area had been a popular beat sce the 1960s but gay men were often too sred to report asslts bee “police treated them like perpetrators, not victims”’s vtigatn also clud terviewg former gay-bashg gang members, who had sentially operated wh impuny bee there was still a “lot of hatred towards gays”, he says.

4. SYDNEY’S NORTH BONDI – TOP 10 GAY BEACH

Even better is fdg a gay-iendly beach where you n tly be yourself whout fear of judgment or harassment due to your sexual orientatn. From North and South Ameri, the Caribbean and Europe, to Oceania and even Ai, the are the bt gay beach the world. Some beach are seclud and difficult to reach, while others are found right the heart of popular gay-iendly statns.

STT JOHNSON: MAN NFS TO 1988 GAY HATE MURR

Some lean towards clothg-optnal, others have cisg areas and a handful of the top gay beach are mixed among the hetero-iendly on. A betiful, small, gay-iendly town 45 mut south of Barcelona, Sg is a perfect spot for long stretch of whe sandy beach.

Sce the town as a whole is credibly gay-iendly, you’ll fd LGBT beachgoers at most of the 17 beach.

However, Playa De la Bassa Rodona is the official gay beach and preferred by most speedo-wearg, six-pack-flntg, bronzed gay men.

10 BT GAY BEACH THE WORLD

Barcelona is one of Spa’s top gay statns part due to s unique blend of big cy life and relaxg beach vibe. Barcelona’s largt and most popular gay beach is Platja la Mar Bella loted at the far left of the beach (facg the sea) clost to metro stop Poblenou (le 4). Here you’ll fd plenty of foreigners and lol cuti takg the sun or enjoyg one of the many beachsi bars and rtrants, Chirguo BeGay beg the most notable.

Also loted here is a great rtrant and bar (really the only rtrant and bar) lled Chirgay where you n enjoy an credible va sangria while takg the geo views of all the guys tanng on the beach. Nowadays when the gays want a full body tan Benidorm, they n head to Ti Ximo ve at the far end of Levante beach and up the hill.

ATRALIA HAS LONG HAD A GAY BEACH SUBCULTURE BUT THEY HAVEN'T ALWAYS BEEN SAFE SPAC

For a cisier spot, there’s Racó Conill which is a gay/mixed nudist beach a few kilometers outsi the cy. Although most beach on the island of Mykonos attract a gay crowd, the most popular gay beach is by far Elia Beach loted on the southern si of the island. Popular wh gay upl, Panormos is another beach on the northern si of the island and although ’s a b off the beaten path, there’s a b service om Mykonos Town.

In the summer months, the gays go shg to this seasi town jt outsi of Málaga to layout and soak up the sun, pecially durg their annual events like Torremolos Pri, Mad Bear Beach Weekend, Delice Dream and Wonr Beach Ftival.

There are three gay beach to pick om, the most popular beg El Gato/En Beach where you’ll fd betiful views of all the betiful men.

BT GAY BEACH DTATNS

It’s near many of the gay hotels and rorts that are primed for happy hour drks and light b after a long day of soakg the sun and meetg cuti the sand.