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• TWO TEEN BOYS CHARGED AFTER ALLEGEDLY ATTACKG GAY MEN SYDNEY
• GAY BANKSTOWN TRAVEL GUI
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS BANKSTOWN
• TOP 5 BOYSTOWN GAY BARS
• GAY GUI OF BANKSTOWN (BANKSTOWN, NEW SOUTH WAL)

TWO TEEN BOYS CHARGED AFTER ALLEGEDLY ATTACKG GAY MEN SYDNEY

Two teenage boys have been charged over a seri of alleged asslts central Sydney, which gay men were punched, kicked and pots:The alleged asslts took place weeks before Sydney's Gay and Lbian Mardi GrasOne cint was ptured on CCTV helpg police to track down two spectsTwo teenaged boys have been charged wh assltIn one cint, which took place on Febary 6, a 19-year-old man was allegedly beaten by one of the boys jt before 9pm Haymarket after tellg them he was say one of the teens wound down the wdow of a black Volkswagen Golf and asked the man if he was gay, to which he replied "y"'s alleged one of the boys jumped out of the r before punchg the 19-year-old the head and knockg him to the ground outsi the Oaks Sydney Castlereagh 's then alleged the man was repeatedly kicked, leavg him wh ser bisg and swellg to his say the victim's iend, a 20-year-old woman, was egged when she tried to tervene. Sourc have told the ABC the man was also asked if he was gay, and when he replied, "y", he was pelted wh eggs, which h him the eye and the cht.

Vlence targetg LGBT people often creas the lead up to Sydney's Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, which will this year be held on March 5Detective Supertennt Rohan Cramsie said vtigatns were unrway to whether others were volved. Text 'GAYTRAVEL' to 1-800-GAY-TRAVEL (1-800-429-8728).

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— Travel Guis wh a Gay Perspective. Gay Bankstown. From private rooms and apartments to LGBTQ-iendly hotels, you have the optn to stay the heart of gay districts as well as other neighborhoods the plac you vis.

A loft Soho, a shared room Barcelona or the Castro, a gay-iendly hotel Le Marais or Chelsea, experience misterb&b all gay travel statns! The Beats, pecially around Gsberg, laid the foundatn for later synergi created by gay poets.

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.

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The San Francis Beats and the gays had a symbtic relatnship. " One uld say the same about the unrground culture of gay leathermen that was about to emerge.

Homosexualy was part of the North Beach scene. Many of the Beats were homosexual, cludg Gsberg, Jack Spicer, Robert Dunn, and Rob Blaser. Gsberg slashed through gay stereotyp of gay male sexualy wh Howl's celebratn of joyo and even holy sexual unn.

He served as a bridge between the tolerant lerary world and the emergg gay polil scene. Both Beats and gays challenged the nformist prsur of the .

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Thanks to the Beats, gays uld now view themselv as nonnformists rather than mentally ill rebels wh a e. 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.

Gsberg scribed as "the greatt gay bar Ameri. " The bar's owner, Sol Stoumen, was unwillg to make the payoffs expected that era of proprietors whose clientele clud homosexuals. Th began the nnectn between gay bars and gay polics.

He even beme the first out gay person to n for supervisor San Francis.

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His 5, 600 vot forhadowed the powerful polil nstuency that gays and lbians would bee.

The happengs at the Black Cat eventually led to the formatn of the Tavern Guild, a aln of gay bars, 1962. 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. The rise of the Guild gave polil legimacy to gay bars, fendg their right to be ee om arbrary harassment.

But on the other end of the spectm was Bronski Beat’s much grimmer pictn of a suburban teen’s gay-bashg and subsequent ostracizatn om his disapprovg fay, “Smalltown Boy.

”The stark and narrative vio, scribed by Rose as an “un-glamoro” “silent movie” ( featur no flashy performance footage, dance sequenc, or neon fashns like many other MTV vios of the era), picts the tular character, played by the new wave tr’s openly gay ontman Jimmy Somerville, clumsily and unsuccsfully makg a pass at a handsome jock at a lol swimmg pool; this unfortunately leads to him beg vic attacked an alley by the jock’s homophobic iends. I thk 's a very mon experience for people, and I thk even go beyond the gay issue: people who jt are rejected and thrown out like that, ” says Rose. They were gog to pot out the sential problems and opprsns volved beg gay at that time, which was you were que likely to get beaten up somewhere, or thrown out by fay.

”Jimmy Somerville fac a homophobic gang Bronski Beat's "Smalltown Boy" vio. “There were a lot of artists [ the ‘80s] who were gay but not open about , like Boy Gee, Gee Michael, Freddie Mercury, Elton John — the people we now thk have always been out, but they were not out 1984.