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Contents:
- GAY BRISBANE GUI | BRISBANE’S BT LGBTIQ+ BARS, CLUBS, RTRANTS & MORE!
- THE BEAT BRISBANE QUEENSLAND LGBT HISTORY, NGHTY GAY BRISBANE THE 80’S
- BT GAY CLUB ! - THE BEAT MEGA CLUB
- GAY BRISBANE 2023
- QAF EVENTS - GAY TOURS & SOCIAL ACTIVI
- MAN WARNED OF GAY BEAT 'DANGER': QUT
- GAY BASHGS, HOMOPHOBIA: FORMER P RELLS HORROR YEARS NSW POLICE FORCE
- BT GAY CLUB ! - THE BEAT MEGA CLUB
- THE BEAT: QUEENSLAND LGBT HISTORY, NGHTY GAY BRISBANE THE 80’S
GAY BRISBANE GUI | BRISBANE’S BT LGBTIQ+ BARS, CLUBS, RTRANTS & MORE!
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The Beat gay Brisbane, played a role changg Queensland gay history via The Fzgerald Inquiry. At a time when was illegal to be gay, and wh the Queensland Government creatg laws specially to shut down gay bars, My club, The Beat, partially unveiled a long trail of police rptn, which assisted topplg the Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen ernment. * gay beats south brisbane *
The crowd is one of our favoure thgs about this venue, wh the mographic tly rangg om super young dus, to an olr crowd, gay guys, gay gals and of urse a uple of tag-along token straight iends! Whether you’re there wh a group of 10, or on your own, you’ll end up wh an entirely new group, dancg for approximately five hours straight, flickg between a top 40 room, a throwback ‘gay anthems’ room (plete wh a light up dance floor of urse) and an R & B boogie room. And that’s a wrap for our Gay Brisbane Gui – Brg to life, get a mate om terstate and book flights to Brisbane now.
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For better or worse, I was advertently volved changg the face and fabric of LGBT history Queensland, Atralia, at a time when was illegal to be gay while police and ernment were sperate to squash . An inic Brisbane gay bar, wh the Brisbane Fortu Valley club space, Cockatoo Club at the time was owned by Tony Bello where Vic, havg met me at the Sheraton, hired me to work ially as his ‘ey and ears’ bartenr. While other stat Atralia fixed their anti-gay laws the 1970’s/1980’s, Queensland was led by the nservative ‘Natnal Party’ led by Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
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His ernment actively ed homophobia for electoral advantage, lkg all gay men to pedophilia & assertg all gay men are morally viant. Anti-gay laws were tensely enforced by Queensland police throughout the 1980s, (lbian activy was always legal).
Ined, some police would e to The Beat for “poofta hunts” [‘poofta’ beg Asie rogatory slang for gay] and turned a bld eye to “poofta bashgs” – a mon problem Brisbane at the time – particularly our back alley. The Bjelke-Petersen Government tend that the new licensg law be ed to refe service to gay men — and centered on the 2 major gay venu Brisbane — the Term and The Beat. This stupid game helped however, helped solidify a gay Brisbane muny uned jt wantg acceptance.
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The Queensland Natnal Party alerted voters to a loomg homosexual vasn. As the dyg ernment flailed search of a lifele, they latched onto homosexualy as a lifebuoy.
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Queensland Natnal Party policians such as Geoff Muntz and Ian Sclair ma their anti-gay views very vol, wh Sclair claimg that the Labor Party’s failure to nmn homosexualy was helpg to spread HIV. Then Welfare Servic Mister Geoff Muntz said, “homosexuals dulge a viant liftyle” and did not thk gay people should be allowed public swimmg pools. “You’ll never hear of a gay mardi gras or gay swimmg rnival Queensland.
Fear of HIV and AIDS were at their height the 1980s, the Bjelke-Petersen Government ed this fear to crease homophobic sentiment and monize gay people further. Rumors spread you uld tch the homosexual only HIV/AIDS by drkg om same glassware or even beg near a poofta.
One of s remendatns was that a newly tablished Crimal Jtice Commissn review the laws erng nsensual sexual behavr, cludg gay activy. The Natnal Party which was heavily implited rptn by the Fzgerald Inquiry, tried to solidify nservative support g his party’s opposn to the legalizatn of gay nduct claimg that his party’s rptn was a “sendary issue” to moral issu like homosexualy.
GAY BASHGS, HOMOPHOBIA: FORMER P RELLS HORROR YEARS NSW POLICE FORCE
Former NSW Police officer Mark Higgbotham has spoken out about the gay bashgs at the hands of officers durg the 1980s Sydney." name="scriptn * gay beats south brisbane *
The new Labor Government buoyed by a landsli victory swiftly implemented chang the Crimal Co which repealed the anti-homosexualy laws on 19 January 1991.
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THE BEAT: QUEENSLAND LGBT HISTORY, NGHTY GAY BRISBANE THE 80’S
The Beat gay Brisbane, at a time when was illegal to be gay, partially unveiled a long trail of police rptn, which assisted topplg the Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen ernment. * gay beats south brisbane *
— Travel Guis wh a Gay Perspective. Home to several gay bars and famoly known as Brisbane’s red-light district, has a reputatn as a more crime-ridn lole, so be sure to keep your ws about you.
It’s also the neighborhood home of the Big Gay Day street party, a fundraiser that supports lol gay anizatns.