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Contents:

• GAY BASHGS, HOMOPHOBIA: FORMER P RELLS HORROR YEARS NSW POLICE FORCE
• GAY BASHG
• AVERAGE OF 20 GAY MEN BASHED EVERY DAY FOR OVER 40 YEARS, NSW QUIRY TOLD
• GAY BULLYG, GAY BULLI AND DEALG WH GAY BASHG
• VIO: SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE OF WT VILLAGE GAY BASHG
• GAY BASHG
• GAY-BASHG THE UNED KGDOM
• SELF-DEFENSE EXPERTS SUGGT THE 5 STRATEGI FOR AVOIDG OR SURVIVG A GAY BASHG
• FAY SEEKS $20 LN AFTER GAY BASHG CINTS AT WASHGTON SCHOOL
• MEANG OF GAY-BASHG ENGLISH
• A HISTORY OF GAY BASHG
• GAY-BASHG: A SOCIAL INTY ANALYSIS OF VLENCE AGAST LBIANS AND GAY MEN (FROM HATE CRIM: CONONTG VLENCE AGAST LBIANS AND GAY MEN, P 179-190, 1992, GREGORY M HEREK AND KEV T BERRILL, EDS. -- SEE NCJ-134558)
• CHAPTER 9 GAY-BASHG: VLENCE AND AGGRSN AGAST GAY MEN AND LBIANS

GAY BASHGS, HOMOPHOBIA: FORMER P RELLS HORROR YEARS NSW POLICE FORCE

He scribed his first exposure to the ps' gay bashg when he was told to meet a group of six to ten officers at a lol Sydney park while uniform.

”The notor former police officer, Roger Rogerson, was based at the statn at the time, but the now-faiar stori of protectn money, pay-offs om crime boss and ps on the take at Darlghurst, Surry Hills and Kgs Cross police statns have missed another, arguably more signifint story: how police were allegedly bashg gay men. ”Higgbotham was mystified by the anger directed towards gay men by the officers, “which isn’t what you would have expected the middle of a gay area”. After the victim, the edor of a gay newspaper, wrote a posive story about Higgbotham and the Darlghurst police, he was seen as some kd of avenger and protector for the gay muny by at least two senr staff at the statn, who subjected him to a soul-stroyg bullyg mpaign, at s nastit durg the ‘taskg para’ at the mencement of each shift, when jobs were alloted.

GAY BASHG

‘” Higgbotham was not sulted by beg labelled a homosexual by his tormentors – for the rerd Higgbotham is heterosexual – but bee they were g that word to try to mean and stroy him. He has been wh the Victorian police for 29 years, pneerg work improvg practic for supportg sex crime victims the urt early as next week, a cisn will be ma on whether a judicial quiry will proceed to the large number of unsolved s of spected gay and transgenr hate crime aths between 1970 and 2010.

As early as next week, a cisn will be ma on whether a judicial quiry will proceed to the large number of unsolved s of spected gay and transgenr hate crime aths between 1970 and gby league footballer, now actor, Ian Roberts, says the horrific anti-gay crime spree rollg across Sydney the late 1980s and early 1990s ntributed to his cisn to postpone his g out as gay (he had planned to e out at the end of 1989 football season, but didn’t fally do so until 1994) Roberts layed g out partially bee of the gay bashgs and murrs occurrg Wolter Peeters“The public backlash agast soccer player Jt Fashanu (who me out October 1990) also ma me hate, ” says Roberts. ”Higgbotham’s story, as well as Ian Roberts’ memori of the anti-gay crime wave Sydney the late 1980s, n be heard episo five of The Sydney Morng Herald and The Age’s podst, Bondi Badlands.

AVERAGE OF 20 GAY MEN BASHED EVERY DAY FOR OVER 40 YEARS, NSW QUIRY TOLD

From middle schoolers beg tnted wh antigay slurs to lbians beg murred for showg affectn public, bias-related vlence ntu to threaten the LGBT muny. But some good has e out of too: Some of the more poignant gay-bashg cints have l a fire unr policians to help clu sexual orientatn and genr inty the tegori of thgs that make an act of vlence a hate crime.

Assistant New South Wal police missner, Anthony Cranll, has told a landmark quiry that on average 20 gay men were bashed every day for a perd spanng more than four special missn of quiry, s send block of heargs, is examg the police approach to spected hate crim agast LGBTQ+ people between 1970 and 2010. “I beme aware … when I unrtook sexualy and genr diversy trag … and rmatn was given to me, that there were wrten rerds at the time of up to at least 20 reports per day of bashgs of gay men, ” Cranll said on then asked: “You, I prume, immediately appreciated that that was a much higher reportg sle than had been reported to the police?

GAY BULLYG, GAY BULLI AND DEALG WH GAY BASHG

“Perpetrators were given a kd of social licence to ntue flictg vlence upon members of the gay muny, ” he royal missn-style quiry, tablished at the urgg of a parliamentary probe after the Parrabell report, has powers to pel wns to attend and to a fal report 2018, Cranll said the force’s past difference to gay bashgs had been upled wh a tac social tolerance of vlence directed at gay men and the LGBTQ+ muny the 1970s to past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotn“It is clear and beyond qutn that levels of vlence flicted upon gay men particular were elevated, extreme and often btal, ” the report said at the also asked if police officers had downplayed, as recently as 2014, the level of gay hate murrs. “I don’t thk there was an tentn to downplay … I do thk there was ncern about the numbers on the basis that 88 gay hate aths my opn was a lot, ” Cranll told Tuday’s hearg.

VIO: SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE OF WT VILLAGE GAY BASHG

Gay bullyg statistics dite that gay teens are two-to-three tim more likely to m suici than other youths and about 30% of all suicis have been lked to a genr inty crisis. Gay bullyg statistics dite that 9-out-of-10 gay youth have been subject to bullyg and that, of those, almost half were physilly harassed and a quarter report beg physilly asslted.

GAY BASHG

Any dividual mor cince of gay bullyg or gay bashg may be somethg that someone n al wh but the ma problem wh is s pervasive and nsistent nature to the pot where jur an dividual's self-teem and sire to live. Over 4000 Gay-Straight Allianc are now registered wh the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network and iativ such as "No Name-Callg Week" now exist to put the spotlight on all typ of bullyg and bashg.

On Sunday, 26-year-old Damian Furtch was beaten outsi the Wt 4th Street McDonald's the Wt Village by two men spewg homophobic slurs, possibly bee of his brightly lored clothg. "There have been two other gay bashgs reported the area the past few months, one at the cy's olst gay bar and one at the cy's most famo gay bar.

While the person beg beaten do not necsarily have to be homosexual, this beatg is ually rerved for flamg homosexuals who feel the need to share their homosexualy wh everyone around them. Is out of jr March 18, 2005Get the gay bash physil act of vlently thstg a bible at a person of the homosexual orientatn attempt to make them more gay. The prospect of beg gay bashed is que sry, but Carolyne Haycraft, the executive director of EMERJ-SafeNow, an anizatn that teach cultural-specific strategi for preventg vlence, says there’s no need to nstantly fear beg attacked and has suggtns for effective gay bashg fense that uld help you learn how to survive a gay bashg.

GAY-BASHG THE UNED KGDOM

Together wh Aman Weaver, a lbian woman who works as an EMERJ-SafeNow facilator and curriculum veloper, the two have tght gay bashg fense class to LGBTQ people. Also, if your statn is a nservative area (filled wh possible queer-phob), a place of drkg or an area known for gay bashgs, prepare to be extra vigilant, keepg your ey and ears open.

Sce alhol and other dgs are often part of gay and public scen — and n crease aggrsn or crease awarens — Weaver suggts beg extra mdful and thkg ahead if you’re head to a place where dgs will be ed. Gay BashgContextBullyg of LGBT youthStrs, anxiety and prsn LGBT muniEffect of bullyg on LGBT youthEdutnal settgsStatistics and examplCasLegislatnSupportGay bashg and gay bullyg is an attack, abe, or asslt mted agast a person who is perceived by the aggrsor to be gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr. Bullyg of gay/LGBT people volv tentnal actns toward the victim, repeated negative actns by one or more people agast another person, and an imbalance of physil or psychologil power.

Homophobia and gay bashg are longstandg and current issu, and have been officially documented worldwi for as long as gay people have been documented. Homophobia the Uned Stat was wily documented the prs the late 1940s and early 1950s, when many gay people were forced out of ernment by boards set up by Prints Harry S.

SELF-DEFENSE EXPERTS SUGGT THE 5 STRATEGI FOR AVOIDG OR SURVIVG A GAY BASHG

Johnson nclus that Senator Joe McCarthy, notor for his attacks on alleged munists ernment, was often prsured by his alli to nounce homosexuals ernment, but he risted and did not do so. The fal report of the survey, “Every Class Every School”, published 2011, found that 70% of all stunts participatg heard “that’s so gay” daily at school, and 48% of rponnts heard “faggot”, “lezbo” and “dyke” daily.

FAY SEEKS $20 LN AFTER GAY BASHG CINTS AT WASHGTON SCHOOL

A rearch study of 78 eleven to fourteen-year-old boys nducted twelve schools London, England between 1998 and 1999 revealed that rponnts who ed the word “gay” to label another boy a rogatory manner tend the word as “jt a joke”, “jt a cs” and not as a statement of one’s perceived sexual orientatn. Amerin soclogist Michael Kimmel and Amerin psychologist Gregory Herek wre that masculy is a renunciatn of the feme and that mal shore up their sense of their masculy by nigratg the feme and ultimately the homosexual.

MEANG OF GAY-BASHG ENGLISH

In one study, boys who were bullied wh tnts of beg gay suffered more bullyg and more negative effects pared wh boys who were bullied wh other tegori of tntg. Homophobic and transphobic vlence – as wh all school-related genr-based vlence – is acutely unrreported due to subjects’ fear of retributn, bed wh aquate or non-existent reportg, support and redrs systems. It nsists of pervasive reprentatns or attus that sometim feel harmls or natural to the school muny, but that allow or enurage homophobia and transphobia, cludg perpetuatg harmful stereotyp.

Assertg that some subjects are better sued to stunts based on their sexual orientatn or genr inty/exprsn (for example, science for heterosexual male stunts and drama for gay male stunts). A 1998 study the US by Mental Health Ameri found that stunts heard anti-gay slurs such as “homo”, “faggot” and “sissy” about 26 tim a day on average, or once every 14 mut.

In a study nducted by the Associatn of Teachers and Lecturers, a unn for UK profsnals, the word “gay” was reported to be the most popular term of abe heard by teachers on a regular basis. About two-thirds of gay and lbian stunts  Brish schools have suffered om gay bullyg 2007, acrdg to a study done by the Schools Edutn Un for LGB activist group Stonewall. It also showed that over 50% of teachers did not rpond to homophobic language which they had explicly heard the classroom, and only 25% of schools had told their stunts that homophobic bullyg was wrong, showg “a shockg picture of the extent of homophobic bullyg unrtaken by fellow pupils and, alarmgly, school staff”, wh further studi nducted by the same chary 2012 stated that 90% of teachers had had no trag on the preventn of homophobic bullyg.

A HISTORY OF GAY BASHG

The Amerin Foundatn for Suici Preventn has found that gay, lbian and bisexual youth attempt suici at a rate three to six tim that of siar-age heterosexual youth. Podlny) agast officials at his former public high school  Ashland, Wisns over their refal to tervene the “relentls antigay verbal and physil abe by fellow stunts” to which he had been subjected and which had rulted his hospalizatn.

His lawsu agast the school district and several admistrators end a 2002 settlement which the district agreed to create a seri of polici to protect gay and lbian stunts and to pay Henkle $451, 000. The BBC, Telegraph, Guardian and Inpennt newspapers reported at the time that durg the weeks between arrivg the UK om Nigeria and the attack he had been subjected to bullyg and beatg, which clud homophobic remarks by a group of boys at his school. ” He “may not have unrstood why he was beg bullied at school, or why some other children tnted him about beg ‘gay’ – the word meant nothg to him.

” In the New Statman two years later, when there had still been no nvictns for the crime, Peter Tatchell, gay human rights mpaigner, said, “In the days leadg up to his murr south London November 2000, he was subjected to vic homophobic abe and asslts, ” and asked why the thori had ignored this before and after his ath. In 2010, a gay man om Cameroon was granted asylum the Uned Kgdom after reportg that he had been attacked by an angry mob Cameroon after they saw him kissg his male partner. On October 14, 2011, Canadian teenager Jamie Hubley, the son of Ottawa cy uncillor Allan Hubley, mted suici after havg blogged for a month about the anti-gay bullyg he was facg at school.

GAY-BASHG: A SOCIAL INTY ANALYSIS OF VLENCE AGAST LBIANS AND GAY MEN (FROM HATE CRIM: CONONTG VLENCE AGAST LBIANS AND GAY MEN, P 179-190, 1992, GREGORY M HEREK AND KEV T BERRILL, EDS. -- SEE NCJ-134558)

Kenh Weishuhn, a 14-year-old hman om South O’Brien High School  Iowa, hanged himself his fay’s garage after tense anti-gay bullyg, cyberbullyg and ath threats 2012.

Notable the Uned Stat is the It Gets Better Project, for which celebri and ordary LGBT people make YouTube vios and share msag of hope for gay teens.

But stead of openly gay actors beg unr attack, was openly gay playwrights who took the heat and, after them, openly gay leg crics like Setooh. In 1966, the Sunday New York Tim published Stanley Kffmann’s “Homosexual Drama and Its Disguis, ” an cendiary say that serly qutned gay playwrights’ abily to wre thentic heterosexual characters. ” Instead of sglg out jt playwrights, he went after fellow Rose gut, Ben Brantley, the NYT’s openly gay theater cric, and his preference for “the homosexual play.

CHAPTER 9 GAY-BASHG: VLENCE AND AGGRSN AGAST GAY MEN AND LBIANS

At the semar, fellow gay scribe Terrence McNally offered: “The whole bs of gay sensibily creepg to theater ed to be a very d way back the 1960s for certa crics to say, ‘I know you’re a homosexual even though you’re not wearg a sign around your neck.