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• GAY CANBERRA
• GUILTY VERDICT FOR 1987 MURR SYDNEY 'GAY BEAT'
• CANBERRA, NOT SYDNEY, IS THE GAY AND LBIAN PAL OF ATRALIA
• POLICE 'SEEMED OBLIV' TO GAY BEAT NEAR CLIFF ATH
• THE BEST CANBERRA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS CANBERRA
• GAY BEAT TO TRIBUTE: BONDI'S MARKS PARK TO GET HATE CRIME MEMORIAL
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• ELRLY MAN GUILTY OF BEATG SYDNEY FATHER TO ATH AT SYDNEY 'GAY BEAT' 1987
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(PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO)A 36-year-old ld se is nearg s long-overdue ncln after a jury returned a guilty verdict for murr at a well-known gay beat Sydney's east. A NSW Supreme Court jury returned s guilty verdict on Wednday after hearg that Early had attacked the 43-year-old martial arts expert Randwick's Alison Park spectg he was homosexual.

A post-mortem examatn revealed he died om severe head juri and a 1988 qut found Mr Keam died after beg stck by a person or persons Park had a reputatn for beg a gay beat, crown prosecutor Ken McKay SC told the jury as the trial verdict spe a wholly circumstantial se beg brought agast Early wh no wns seeg he had any ntact wh Mr June 2021 a $1 ln reward was offered for rmatn about the was arrted at a home Clayton, Victoria two months later and was extraded to NSW where he remaed for the Keam's hherto unsolved ath was one of 88 killgs between 1976 and 2000 recently reviewed by police probg potential gay-hate vlence and allegatns of prr intified as heterosexual, was divorced om one woman and a facto relatnship wh another, havg a child wh each. When namg the world's great "rabow ci", New York, San Francis and R Janeiro e to of urse Sydney, home of the annual Mardi Gras, which began as a prott and has bee one of the pla's great open statistilly speakg, Canberra is Atralia's real gay and lbian pal — y, normre Canberra, wh s policians and sued not jt by a ltle. (ABC News: Gregory Nelson)Perhaps unsurprisgly, the ACT also has Atralia's first openly gay head of ernment, Andrew Friday Mr Barr announced his Government's latt move to make the pal an LGBTQI-iendly cy: will ban nversn therapy — a practice sometim lled "prayg the gay away" — which tri to change a person's sexual discreded practice, ed historilly by some church groups, has been lked to mental harm and suici, and is now rarely ed.

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"You n intify as gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr or tersex and not be a relatnship, and you would not be picked up by that statistil measure. "But homosexualy, bisexualy or beg transgenr is this private experience that is so stigmatisg that people n't even be asked about . (Bian De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)When police found 18-year-old Mark Stewart ad at the bottom of a cliff near a known gay beat on Sydney's northern beach, they quickly led out foul a special missn of quiry to spected gay hate crim has heard NSW Police should have done more to vtigate if Mr Stewart was ath near Manly 1976 is the last a tranche of four s beg examed by the probe, which was lnched at the urgg of a NSW parliamentary quiry to LGBTQI hate crim om 1970 to is unclear whether Mr Stewart fell to his ath as a rult of suici, accint or homici, unsel assistg the quiry William Mars told the hearg police should have done more to nvass the area for potential evince or Mars cricised police for losg Mr Stewart's se file as well as a potentially tellg note found on his body, which uld have been the clue on whether he had met up wh a potential romantic tert at a Kgs Cross gay bar.

Officers appeared obliv to the fact Mr Stewart may have been the area bee was a known gay beat, even though police had been btg men for homosexual activi there, Commissner John Sackar was hate asslts were a mon occurrence Manly durg the 1970s but the police report found "no spic circumstanc" surroundg the ath. "One might have hoped that potential offendg motivated by gay hatred would have been a nsiratn the mds of police officers, " Mr Mars said. Earlier, the quiry examed the se of Carl Stockton, a 52-year-old tra driver who was found lyg on an ner Sydney street 1996, vered blood and sufferg severe head Stockton, who was openly gay, died five days later at St Vcent's Mr Stewart's se, there was not enough evince to terme that Mr Stockton was targeted for his sexualy, even though he had prevly been the victim of several gay hate attacks, unsel assistg the quiry Christe Melis told the did not follow up on tip-offs about a group of men the area who were allegedly bashg patrons at Bar Cleveland, a pub equented by gay men that Mr Stockton attend on the night he staed his was mon for victims of LGBTQI bias crim not to report to police at the time due to "mistst and act relatns", Ms Melis said.

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Homosexual nduct was crimalised NSW 1984 but homophobic attus were still rife the muny durg the 1980s and '90s, and anti-gay bashgs were special missn is due to liver s report to the NSW ernor June.

As Garry Wotherspoon observ: “[H]omosexuals have been imagative creatg other for a range of stutns … sce the ways which heterosexuals n meet each other openly are not available to homosexuals. Marks Park south of Bondi was for s a known gay beat Sydney's eastern suburbs where multiple men were savagely bashed, robbed and some s, cliff-si park will bee a memorial to those men after was chosen as the se for a monument to victims of the cy's wave of gay hate crim om the 1970s to the 1990s.

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"The memorial will be built a natural amphheatre-like space, created by a slope the ground and a clter of tre, on the Tamarama si of the will face south, towards the ocean and Waverley Warren, Stt Johnson and John Rsell were victims of Sydney's s-long gay hate crime wave. "Mr Parkhill said would also help raise greater awarens of the gay hate attacks and serve as a remr of "the importance of valug and celebratg diversy our muny".

The uncil will ll for tenrs before a public nsultatn Park, a former notor gay beat, is on the Bondi to Tamarama astwalk. Photo: Jam BrickwoodCr Sally Betts said anisers of Sculpture by the Sea, the yearly two-week public art display that the park, should be nsulted over the memorial's the meetg, Cr Wakefield said the anisatn had been nsulted but the memorial was ultimately a matter for the uncil and Force Parrabell this year found evince of gay-hate bias or spected bias 27 s, while 23 of the aths also rema unsolved. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO)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 long-time gay rights activist was givg evince at the NSW 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.

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Dcribg himself as a "beats queen", Mr Charl said he was aware that vlence agast gay men at beats was occurrg before the equented them between 1969 and 1998, visg at least 40 different on around 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, " he Charl listed a strg of vlent acts he wnsed or experienced at beats, tellg the quiry he managed to sprt over the footbridge away om the r at the Rhcutters Bay cint.

Another time an adolcent boy h him wh a tree saplg om the park, which was later the scene of a bashg murr of a gay outled his years of activism, notg a gay solidary Sydney rally phed the marchers back and began arrtg people after they cid to lay a wreath at the war memorial, to memorate gay and lbian service people. "Durg the early 1980s, the gay muny's growg visibily and nfince also meant growg vlence agast he rejected opns that the advent of HIV/AIDS gave rise to more anti-gay vlence wh beg ed as an exce or jtifitn. Gay Clubs & Bars CanberraTraveler favorThgs to do ranked g Tripadvisor data cludg reviews, ratgs, photos, and populary.

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A 36-year-old ld se is nearg s long-overdue ncln after a jury returned a guilty verdict for murr at a well-known gay beat Sydney's east. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO)A post-mortem examatn revealed he died om severe head juri and a 1988 qut found Keam died after beg stck by a person or persons Park had a reputatn for beg a gay beat, crown prosecutor Ken McKay SC told the jury as the trial verdict spe a wholly circumstantial se beg brought agast Early wh no wns seeg he had any ntact wh June 2021 a $1 ln reward was offered for rmatn about the was arrted at a home Clayton, Victoria two months later and was extraded to NSW where he remaed for the Police offered a $1 ln reward for rmatn to the murr of Raymond Keam more than 34 years ago.

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