Inquiry to LGBTQ+ hate crim told a ‘mosaic of motiv’ showed anti-gay bias killg of John Hugh
Contents:
- A GAY BEAT, A FATAL CLIFF FALL, AND ONE FAY'S 26-YEAR BATTLE WH POLICE FOR ANSWERS TO STT JOHNSON'S ATH
- ‘MEN WERE STTERG EVERYWHERE’: QUIRY HEARS OF STRG OF VLENT CINTS AT SYDNEY GAY BEATS
- MAN’S FURY OVER ‘PRAVED’ TOILET ACT SPARKS BATE OVER GAY BEATS
- NSW POLICE: HUNTG GAY MEN AT BEATS
- INQUIRY HEARS OF VLENCE AT GAY BEATS
- GUILTY VERDICT FOR 1987 MURR SYDNEY 'GAY BEAT'
- GAY HATE BEHD 27 SYDNEY MURRS, POLICE REVIEW REVEALS
A GAY BEAT, A FATAL CLIFF FALL, AND ONE FAY'S 26-YEAR BATTLE WH POLICE FOR ANSWERS TO STT JOHNSON'S ATH
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‘MEN WERE STTERG EVERYWHERE’: QUIRY HEARS OF STRG OF VLENT CINTS AT SYDNEY GAY BEATS
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They had a few hnts for gay-bashg – Manly, Long Reef, or up on the Manly si of North Head, near Blue Fish murr?
MAN’S FURY OVER ‘PRAVED’ TOILET ACT SPARKS BATE OVER GAY BEATS
"The guys were the homosexual men who equented gay beats.
NSW POLICE: HUNTG GAY MEN AT BEATS
He has e back to Atralia om the USA to follow up on a police vtigatn lookg to gay hate crim towards Rebec Johnson's Jam Brickwood"Of urse, I don't thk like that now, " he, not his real name, has e forward to help the fay of Stt Johnson, a brilliant 27-year-old Amerin mathematician who plunged to his ath om a 50-metre cliff near Blue Fish Pot almost 26 years ago. Steve Johnson, Stt's olr brother by two years, never believed at the time he had never heard the term "gay beat" – a place where men met for sex, often anonymoly.
Cickshank had told the urt the area where Johnson died was not equented by homosexual men. A 45-year-old gay man had been sunbakg at Blue Fish Pot. The stranger then stabbed the sunbaker, who fled wh the knife his young Freddy and his crew been followg the Johnson ronial quiry, they would have been surprised to hear that homosexuals did not equent their stompg se might have rted wh the police versn of history had not been for another roner's fdgs 2005 about the aths of three gay men around the Bondi and Tamarama cliff-tops the late 1980s, when gangs of youths went on "poofter bashg" rampag.
Their aths joed a succsn of gay-hate asslts and murrs that era, amid the "Grim Reaper" advertisg rponse to the HIV alert and soon after homosexual sex was crimalised NSW Johnson's long-term partner, Michael Noone, ntacted Steve Johnson after the Milledge fdgs. And that, he says, is symptomatic of a long history of police quiri to the unexplaed aths of gay men the 1970s, '80s and '90s – and his mpaign is as much for them and their fai as his own.
INQUIRY HEARS OF VLENCE AT GAY BEATS
Police had asserted was a popular suici spot – and, curly, one officer had told the victim's brother, "particularly for homosexuals".
GUILTY VERDICT FOR 1987 MURR SYDNEY 'GAY BEAT'
It took Glick days to fd ttimony that was a gay beat where homosexual men undrsed, sun-baked and found sexual pany. This officer had told him that Doreen Cickshank still sisted was not a gay beat and "we were wastg our time".
GAY HATE BEHD 27 SYDNEY MURRS, POLICE REVIEW REVEALS
And December 2012, an Unsolved Homici tective had advised them the se had a "zero solvabily x" and that he had on good thory that the cliff area was not a gay beat. "Among those helpg the Johnsons has been Sue Thompson, a lawyer and former gay liaison officer wh the police force. Last year Fairfax Media featured the timat of Thompson and crimologist Stephen Tomsen of about 30 potential unsolved gay-hate murrs om the late 1970s to late early Augt, Willg said police had asssed them and found "fively" that eight may f the gay-hate tegory.