'Cold se' gay murrs: two books illumate Atralia's dark history of police and ary vlence

Contents:

• MURRS THAT ROCKED GAY COMMUNY UNSOLVED AFTER 7 YEARS
• ARRT MA LD SE KILLG OF GAY AMERIN ATRALIA
• LOST EVINCE ULD HELP CLOSE 20 UTAH LD S — CLUDG THE MURR OF A BLACK GAY POLIL ACTIVIST — IF POLICE N SOMEHOW FD
• QUEER TE CRIME STORI OF THE PAST SHOW HOW THE PRS STOKED FEAR OF GAY MEN
• AVENGG BILLY: HOW AMATR SLTHS TOOK ON A GAY PORN ACTOR’S HNTG HOLLYWOOD MURR
• EX-SJ LEAR SOLV LD SE MURR OF GAY PORN ACTOR

MURRS THAT ROCKED GAY COMMUNY UNSOLVED AFTER 7 YEARS

Kev Clewer's parents, Jim Clewer and Pam Cunngham, distributed tens of thoands of fliers wh the sketch of "Fernando" and marched the Gay Pri Para. After Clewer's murr, ncerns mounted that a serial killer might be preyg on gay men Chigo, particularly nsirg the siiari wh Wters' unsolved murr seven months earlier.

Last year, Gay Chigo Magaze revised the s. Also the issue last year, Gay Chigo Magaze published some memori of Clewer and Wters, which showed strong emotns and pleas for the killer to e forward. BRISBANE, Atralia — More than 30 years after Amerin mathematician Stt Johnson died after fallg off a cliff Sydney, a man has been charged wh his ath an apparent gay hate crime that police believe was one of many over several s Atralia’s largt South Wal state police said Tuday that a 49-year-old man who they did not name has been charged wh murrg the 27-year-old Sydney-based Johnson said the man was arrted at a property Sydney’s northern suburbs.

ARRT MA LD SE KILLG OF GAY AMERIN ATRALIA

However, the third qut, 2017, found that Johnson fell om the clifftop as the rult of vlence by an unintified attacker who perceived him to be gay. “Makg that phone ll this morng is a reer highlight — Steve has fought so hard for so many years, and has been an honor be part of his fight for jtice, ” Fuller Johnson said a statement that his brother symboliz those who lost their liv to homophobic-spired vlence. I hope the iends and fai of the other dozens of gay men who lost their liv fd solace what’s happened today and hope opens the door to rolve some of the other myster aths of men who have not yet received jtice, ” he said.

A 2018 police review of 88 spic aths om 1976 to 2000 revealed that 27 men were likely murred for their homosexualy by gangs, wh s peakg the late 1980s and early ’, New South Wal' leadg sexualy and genr-diverse health anizatn, said has been a long and difficult procs for Johnson’s fay and iends. “While this is a signifint velopment this particular se, highlights the need for ongog vtigatn, tth-tellg and the livery of jtice for so many other gay men and trans people, who were murred or bashed siar s, " ACON's chief executive, Nilas Parkhill, said a NBC Out on Twter, Facebook & Instagram. Acrdg to mours wh the gay muny, police patrollg the beat would often throw men to the Torrens.

LOST EVINCE ULD HELP CLOSE 20 UTAH LD S — CLUDG THE MURR OF A BLACK GAY POLIL ACTIVIST — IF POLICE N SOMEHOW FD

Vlence agast homosexual and bisexual men, at beats and elsewhere, is a shameful part of Atralia’s history. In the years when male homosexualy was nsired a crimal act, many men lived fear of police, not only bee of the threat of arrt, but the beatgs and verbal abe that regularly went wh . Homosexualy’s crimal stat prevented victims of homophobic vlence om reportg attacks, for fear they would be outg themselv the procs.

His ath also occurred at a moment when lbian and gay activism was emergg as a polil force. Activists nmned police harassment of men at beats and argued that Dunn’s murr was evince of the sperate need for homosexual law reform. Friday say: hidn pla sight — Atralian queer men and women before gay liberatn.

The Death of Dr Dunn jos a growg list of recent popular histori examg historil vlence agast gay and bisexual men Atralia. Former police officer Dunn McNab’s 2017 book Gettg Away wh Murr was a damng acunt of New South Wal policg the 1980s and 1990s, when at least 80 gay and bisexual men and transgenr women were murred Sydney. Podst Bondi Badlands (vtigatg murrs and disappearanc of gay men on the southern headland at Bondi Beach the late 1980s) and televisn seri Deep Water siarly tell the stori of the Sydney s.

QUEER TE CRIME STORI OF THE PAST SHOW HOW THE PRS STOKED FEAR OF GAY MEN

The recently released podst The Greatt Menace exam the dark history of Cooma Gaol, where men charged wh homosexual acts were imprisoned the 1950s. Male homosexualy was crimalised state by state Atralia, wh Tasmania last, 1997. Although thgs began to change the 1960s, for much of the crimalisatn era, homosexual people had ltle or no opportuny for the kds of open social or cultural participatn that would leave a wrten rerd.

Cooma Correctnal Centre, Atralia’s only ‘gay jail’. As a rult, stori of gay tragedy are often better known than stori of happs and pleasure. Pag and prejudice: how queer texts uld fight homophobia Atralian schools.

AVENGG BILLY: HOW AMATR SLTHS TOOK ON A GAY PORN ACTOR’S HNTG HOLLYWOOD MURR

In The Boy the Drs, a batn of memoir, te crime, and eply rearched history, Jonathan Butler scrib the broar ramifitns when homosexual liv are unrstood as herently tragic.

As a teenager 2007, Butler me out as gay to his parents, and both rpond negatively.

Their reactn was based, part, on fears that his “sexualy would put [him] directly harm’s way” and “there were jt too many ways to die or be hurt as a gay man. Butler’s parents each had their own stori of homosexualy’s tragic out.

EX-SJ LEAR SOLV LD SE MURR OF GAY PORN ACTOR

A gay schooliend of his father had died by suici. He had ltle rmatn about gay liv through which he might unrstand (let alone celebrate) his feelgs of difference and beg to build an inty. As he grew olr, Jonathan heard stori of this trigug figure om the past, cludg shame-filled spicns among the fay that Warwick had been homosexual.

In the procs, Butler scrib the btal homophobic murr of another Atralian soldier, Jack Lloyd, whose killer was acquted on the basis that his victim had ma a sexual advance and the killg was therefore jtified. Stori of homophobic, biphobic and transphobic (not to mentn racist and misogynist) vlence – whether mted, liberately ignored, or aquately vtigated by police – are an alternate narrative. That a state-fund apparat operated – wh the potential for imprisonment – to entrap and btalise homosexuals is a powerful mentary on the irratnal fear that then existed around a sexual mory.

Earlier today, Whe attempted to whdraw his plea, but the urt refed to vate the Getty ImagThe cliffs surroundg the greater Sydney area were popular wh members of the gay muny lookg to hook up durg the 1970s and '80s, but also homophobic groups of men and youth who would asslt and often murr gay men, throwg them or forcg them to leap om the cliffs onto the rocks below. RELATED | Gay Man Btally Killed After Beg Lured to Park Via Datg App.

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