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How gay-iendly is Atralia’s beach culture?

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THE BT LGBTQI + AND GAY BEACH SYDNEY

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Beat ers have reported hourly patrols by several police vehicl, vert patrols on foot, the wrongful "banng" people om the area for 28 days, rogatory personal ments, threats to e pepper spray, e of unnecsary force, arrt whout charge and other homophobic behavur.

NSW POLICE: HUNTG GAY MEN AT BEATS

A man acced of murrg another man near a gay beat more than three s ago had once claimed to have smashed a Porsche owned by a gay man, a jury has been told. * gay beats in sydney *

In a letter to cy admistrators, LECD says that by regulatg sex public, the safety of homosexuals om "queer-bashers" n be better guaranteed. Communy Actn Agast Homophobia (CAAH) is mpaigng to end harassment of men Sydney beats and will provi onle rmatn for beat ers to bee better rmed of their rights when approached by police. Men at a popular Sydney gay beat had to stter when a r reered towards them “like was on a kangaroo shoot”, an quiry has r’s headlights and an apparent spotlight were blazg as the r drove at men at Rhcutters Bay Park Sydney’s east the 1990s.

“It was a by Saturday night and men were stterg everywhere, nng like the dickens, ” Barry Charl said on 72-year-old longtime gay rights activist was givg evince at the New South Wal Special Commissn of Inquiry to LGBTIQ hate is vtigatg historil hate crim agast the queer muny, particularly a wave of gay hate homicis and other crim Sydney durg the Aids epimic of the 1980s. “While as a young man om Punchbowl ( Sydney’s wt) I had no ia how to fd a gay bar, beats were somethg I uld fd, ” he equented them between 1969 and 1998, visg at least 40 different on around sex was mostly anonymo and wordls, as the majory wanted to get over and done wh as quickly as possible.

‘MEN WERE STTERG EVERYWHERE’: QUIRY HEARS OF STRG OF VLENT CINTS AT SYDNEY GAY BEATS

Two teenage boys are charged over a seri of alleged asslts central Sydney, which gay men were punched, kicked and egged. * gay beats in sydney *

“Hangg around for longer than necsary was dangero, bee you knew you uld be apprehend, or were danger of vlence and some men were at risk of beg exposed as gay.

MAN ACCED OF HISTORIC MURR A SYDNEY PARK WOULD ALLEGEDLY 'SET UPON' GAY MEN, URT HEARS

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A 77-year-old man is on trial the Supreme Court after pleadg not guilty to murrg Raymond Keam a Sydney park nearly four s pots:Stanley Early is acced of allegedly murrg Raymond Keam 1987Mr Keam was found a park known for beg a gay beat Sydney's RandwickThe urt was told Mr Early was part of a group who would "set upon" gay men at nightStanley Early was arrted Augt 2021 what police alleged was a gay-hate crime based on a false perceptn of Mr Keam's sexual body was found face up the grass Randwick's Alison Park on the morng of January 13, 1987 wh var juri, and a post-mortem examatn later revealed he had died om a bra an openg statement, Crown prosecutor Ken McKay SC had argued there was evince that prr to the alleged murr the Victorian man had on ocsn been part of a group who had "set upon" men the park late at night bee they believed them to be the time of Mr Keam's ath the acced went by the name Stanley "Spir" Sutton and lived a boardg hoe oppose the park. 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.

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

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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”. ”More CoverageOne man who attend beats on a “semi-regular basis” told SBS, “It’s simply bee a part of gay culture and some men — spe beg able to fd someone nearby on Grdr to f**k the fort of their own home — prefer to go cisg at a beat bee that’s what turns them on.

TWO TEEN BOYS CHARGED AFTER ALLEGEDLY ATTACKG GAY MEN SYDNEY

Men at a popular Sydney gay beat had to stter when a r reered towards them "like was on a kangaroo shoot", an quiry has heard. * gay beats in sydney *

In the ‘70s and ‘80s, young men were targeted a wave of bashgs and murrs of at popular gay beats across the related topics: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. The Sydney Cliff murrs were a strg of murrs om the 80’s through the 90’s agast gay men the of Sydney, Atralia which may have had as many as 90 victims — primarily Marks Park at the top of the Bondi Beach cliffs, which was a popular cisg spot for gay men, but also some other areas that were popular “gay beats”. Acrdg to retired High Court jtice Michael Kirby, the police viewed gay men as low level crimals (even though sodomy was crimalized there 1984) and thought that homosexuals should pretty much expect to be hurt or killed.

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The NSW ernment announc long-awaed quiry lookg at historil "grave jtic" mted agast Sydney's gay muny. * gay beats in sydney *

And, no, wasn’t a serial killer on the loose or anythg nearly that dramatic — was groups of vlent, homophonic teenagers who knew that crim agast gay men would never be taken serly by the police. Homici tective Steve McCann secretly rerd nversatns the boys had wh each other and other mat — they bragged about killg gay men at the cliffs at Bondi Beach.

He turned to lawyer, and official liaison between the New South Wal police and the gay muny, Sue Thompson for help but even so there was only so much they uld do.

As a rult of this, the New South Wal police began Operatn Parrabell, a review of 88 vtigatns to var aths of gay men — tryg to terme if the crim should be classified as hate crim.

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The Operatn Parrabell task force for unsolved homicis accepted eight of those as potential anti-gay hate crim that need to be vtigated. Men at a popular Sydney gay beat had to stter when a r reered towards them "like was on a kangaroo shoot", an quiry has heard. The 72-year-old long-time gay rights activist was givg evince at the NSW Special Commissn of Inquiry to LGBTIQ hate crim.

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It is vtigatg historil hate crim agast the queer muny, particularly a wave of gay hate homicis and other crim Sydney durg the AIDS epimic of the 1980s. "While as a young man om Punchbowl ( Sydney's wt) I had no ia how to fd a gay bar, beats were somethg I uld fd, " he said. "Hangg around for longer than necsary was dangero, bee you knew you uld be apprehend, or were danger of vlence and some men were at risk of beg exposed as gay.

A 76-year-old man acced of murrg a father of four at a known gay beat Sydney’s eastern suburbs 35 years ago has been granted bail on a $1 ln surety. Raymond Keam was found wh head juri Sydney’s east park had a reputatn for beg a gay beat, the NSW Supreme Court heard on Friday. The man rponsible for the ath of a gay Amerin mathematician who had “everythg to live for” has been sentenced to ne years already served part of his sentence, Stt Phillip Whe will be eligible for release 2026 for punchg Stt Johnson, leadg him to fall to his ath the late 1980s Sydney.

“Not much is known of the ath beyond a punch on a cliff, a fall om a cliff and s of pa and grief that followed, ” Jtice Robert Beech-Jon said durg sentencg the supreme urt on 10 December, 1988, Whe met Johnson at a hotel and the pair went for a walk around North Head which was known at the time to be a gay, then 18 years old, threw a punch at Johnson the heat of an argument g the 27-year-old to stagger backwards and fall to his ath over the Amerin was close to receivg his doctorate om the Atralian Natnal Universy, which he has sce been award posthumoly. ”Origally thought of as a suici, NSW police eventually opened an vtigatn to what they thought was a gay hate crime her now overturned judgment on the murr nvictn, Jtice Helen Wilson found there was not enough evince to show the attack was motivated by Johnson’s said he uld not be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the crime was a “gay hate crime”.

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Patrick Abboud’s Greatt Menace podst reveals the untold history of a jail set up to rcerate gay men and experiment to fd a ‘cure’ for homosexualy." name="scriptn * gay beats in sydney *

The NSW ernment has announced an quiry to btal hat crim mted agast members of Sydney's gay muny over 40 pots:The quiry will have the power to pel wns to prent evinceLiberal MP and gay man Shayne Mallard said was an emotnal dayHe said there was evince of at least 88 gay and transgenr murrsIn July 1989, 25-year-old newsrear Ross Warren disappeared om Sydney's eastern r had been parked on a street near the popular gay beat Marks Park, and his keys were found at the bottom of a cliff closed his se jt three weeks later, whout lotg his is spected to be among the dozens of men murred  Sydney through the 1980s and will form the basis of a judicial quiry announced by the NSW ernment on Wednday. Commtee Chair Shayne Mallard said there was evince of at least 88 gay and transgenr murrs, though the number was likely higher. (Supplied: Marton Dobras-Vcze)"The crim took place at a time when many the muny thought gay and transgenr people were sick, perverted or crimals, " chief executive Nilas Parkhill said.

"Details about the ntent of the quiry, cludg s terms of reference, are yet to be month a memorial was unveiled at Marks Park Tamarama, the se of many spected murrs, to acknowledge and honour the victims of gay hate 4 Nov 2021Thu 4 Nov 2021 at 1:20am, updated 4 Nov 2021Thu 4 Nov 2021 at 3:29am.

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Although the beach do not have a specific gay area, is popular wh gay sunbathers who are ls terted the 'scene' and more 'sea'. This is a mixed nudist beach which do have a good populatn of gay guys - though 's not one of Sydney's official nudist beach like Lady Bay or Obelisk. A gay gui to SydneyQueer eye on SydneyMeet the crew: Heaps GayWhether you're gay, straight or somewhere between, you'll have a heaps good time at one of Sydney's favoure queer and clive Beard TIf you want to see Sydney at her absolute bt, go for a drk at Redfern’s neighbourhood art bar, the Beard T.

SYDNEY GAY BEACH

Before homosexualy was crimalised (1984 New South Wal all the way through to 1997 Tasmania), some beach areas beme “beats” – venu where gay men uld discreetly hook up bee society offered few spac for them to meet and be timate.

In September 2018, the Liberal MP Shayne Mallard announced a parliamentary quiry to homophobic hate crim mted between 1970 and 2010. This clus 30 outstandg s of at least 88 murrs rulted gay men beg found ad at the bottom or on top of beach clifftops.

Police are now offerg a $1m reward for rmatn leadg to nvictn – after ially, accurately, nyg the area was a October 2018, Waverley uncil announced a memorial monument will be built at the cliffsi Marks Park, south of Bondi, followg the homophobic attacks and murrs of men at this Atralian beach culture, Murphy says, remas more nservative than beach like Sg Spa, “where there are cktails, DJs and parti right on the sand”. ” The profsnal surfer Barton Lynch explaed was mon to ll someone “faggot” or “poofter” when they didn’t tch a wave – homophobic language he has avoid sce his brother me out. The uple, who n the blog, ce nudist beach such as Ltle Congwong at La Peroe (an unofficial nudist beach which police have prevly raid), Lady Jane and Obelisk beach Sydney, Port Douglas’s Turtle Cove rort and the “world famo” Kgs Beach at Byron uple say the associated non-nformy and liberatn of nudist beach often make them popular wh gay people: “As gay people, our eedoms were somewhat rtricted.

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

The gay marriage bate Atralia had boiled over, and while he was verg an anti-gay marriage prott, the openly gay journalist was mobbed and the SBS work Christmas party, he was unwdg wh a uple of drks, then planned to h the dancefloor before gog home and takg a break om reportg for a while.

Journalist Patrick Abboud has created a podst about the world’s only gay Rohan ThomsonThat was exactly when his iend and -worker Simon Cunich walked up to him to say he’d received an trigug story tip.

“Simon said a iend of an acquatance had told him that there had once been a prison somewhere NSW that was set up to rcerate gay men, ” says Abboud. ’”Abboud, wh Cunich as -producer, voted the next three years of his life to fdg out about , and the rult is The Greatt Menace, an eight-part Audible Origal lotn of the jail NSW shocked Patrick Rohan ThomsonIt sounds like somethg out of Rsia or East Germany or the US ep south, but happened Cooma, the small town an hour-and-a-half drive south of Canberra known as the gateway to the Snowy 1957, the town’s jail, which had been closed the early 1900s, was re-opened wh a new rem – was to be a prison for homosexuals. Abboud disvered that the prison was a ordated effort between ernment and police to provi a pool of subjects for study and experimentatn to disver a “cure” for homosexualy.

EXPOSG THE SHOCKG PLAN BEHD ATRALIA’S GAY PRISON

As Abboud searched for throughout the seri, he felt that “they eher didn’t disver what they wanted, and uldn’t cure homosexualy, so they need to bury the report, or the thgs they did were so horrific that they never wanted anyone to see the tail.

Abboud terviews gay men now their 70s and 80s who tell raw and revealg stori of beg targeted, entrapped and arrted by unrver police at gay beats such as public toilets, parks and beach. A 50-year-old man's shock last mute nfsn sayg he was 'guilty, guilty, guilty' urt this week to the 1988 murr of a US maths stunt has given police h hope of unlockg up to 23 'gay hate' Phillip Whe clared his guilt a spl send cisn at a pre-trial hearg, alarmg his lawyers who ma an unsuccsful attempt to have the plea now awas sentencg for phg 27-year-old Stt Johnson off a cliff at Manly's North Head, the brilliant PhD graduate's body found on the rocks below on December 10, apologised to his barrister Belda Rigg, sayg he appreciated her efforts 'but I n't handle ' and Jtice Helen Wilson nvicted Johnson had left his cloth neatly fold at the top of Blue Fish Pot, and spe a bungled police fdg the ath was a suici, his California-based brother Steve, never believed and pursued the se for three Johnson disvered that Blue Fish Pot, like the scene of other murrs the 1970s and 1980s, was a known as a beat among Sydney's gay muny. Three s on, the murr of brilliant maths stunt Stt Johnson (above) has been solved after a man nfsed to phg the 27-year-old off a clifftop gay beat 1988 Stt Phillip Whe (above, handcuffed) shocked even his own lawyers urt on Monday utterg 'guilty, guilty, guilty' to Johnson's murr and apologisg, sayg 'I n't handle 'It was Mr Johnson's termatn that part propelled police to re-exame Stt's ath, after a third qut to his ath fdg he was likely murred and leadg tectiv to arrt the begng of the 1970s to the end of the 1980s, up to 88 gay men Sydney's east and metro areas were documented to have disappeared spic circumstanc, or were the victims of were found sla parks, hom or washed up on the rocks at the bottom of Sydney clifftops.

DARK SECRET BEHD SYDNEY'S 23 GAY HATE MURRS AS KILLER MAK SHOCK GUILTY PLEA

TV newsrear Ross Warren’s r keys were found below the cliff face of Marks Park, South Bondi (above), a gay beat where two hate gangs operated WIN TV prenter Ross Warren was a risg star who did not flnt his sexualy and was likely head for a discreet enunter which end his beg murredThe other was loosely known as the Tamarama Gang, wh three members aged 16 to 17, who met up at night on the Bondi-Tamarama 2. Siar thgs were gog on at the clifftops which flank the harbour, and cy parks which ntued as clanste meetg spots even after homosexualy was crimalised New South Wal 1984. AC/DC Manager Crisp Dye (above) was btally bashed near Oxford Street, Sydney, December 1993 and died hospal on Christmas Day, aged 41Martial arts expert Raymond Keam (left), 43, and Cyril Olsen (right), 61, were two more victims of spected gay bashgs 1987 and 1992 rpectively In 1985, 27-year-old French natnal Gil Mattai was livg was last seen walkg along the astal walkg track at Tamarama on September 15 that year by a neighbour; he was not reported missg until January 1987, martial arts expert Raymond Keam was bashed to ath at Alison Park, Randwick, and December 1988, William Allen was bashed to ath at Alexandria Park, Alexandria.

Thai stunt Krchikorn Rattanajaturathaporn was phed off a sea cliff and died om tastrophic juri or drowng and three youths were nvicted of his murr French natnal Gil Mattai (left), 21, and John Rsell (right), 31, were both believed to have been killed at Marks Park, a clifftop and popular gay beat between Tamarama and BondiBee of Mr Johnson's eye-wnsg the killg, three youths were eventually nvicted of murr and each sentenced to 14 years Force Parabell was formed and 2018 livered a report of s vtigatn to 88 gay and lbian hate crim, which was tabled NSW report revealed chillg tails about those rryg out the attacks - who were maly men, but ocsnally clud women or teenage girls - who saw isolated and dark gay beats as the perfect place to gangs 'would move around om beat to beat' and their motivatn to attack might simply have been to obta money. 'Predatory gangs would go up and asslt victims, lookg to get $10, $20 or $30 to buy some alhol and have a good night out, ' a former NSW Police tective attackers wanted to portray themselv as 'alpha mal', some simply 'hated' gays and others had been molted as children, and stggled to differentiate between paedophil and gay the time, police often bshed off the aths of gay men as suicis, the lack of vtigatn more recently scribed by former NSW Police Mister David Elltt as 'offensive'. Former NSW Police Mister David Ellt said the historic failure to vtigate gay murrs was 'offensive' but that the state's tectiv 'don't do that anymore' Former NSW Police Commissner Mick Fuller said the force had let down the gay muny the past but police were now termed to solve ld se gay hate murrs'It was offensive bee was at a time when people were slightly dismissive of hate crim, and were too easy to try to make exc or to move on.

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