Guilty verdict for 1987 murr Sydney 'gay beat' | Mandurah Mail | Mandurah, WA

Contents:

• INQUIRY HEARS OF VLENCE AT GAY BEATS
• POLICE 'SEEMED OBLIV' TO GAY BEAT NEAR CLIFF ATH
• GAY BAR MANDURAH
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS MANDURAH
• GUILTY VERDICT FOR 1987 MURR SYDNEY 'GAY BEAT'
• MANDURAH GAY MARDI GRAS SLAMMED
• INQUIRY HEARS OF VLENCE AT GAY BEATS
• PERTH GAY-POPULAR BEACH
• POLICE VTIGATE REPORTS OF GAY SEX HOTSPOT AT JOONDALUP SHOPPG CENTRE
• MUMBAI GAYS H STREETS MANDG RIGHTS

INQUIRY HEARS OF VLENCE AT GAY BEATS

(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. 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.

POLICE 'SEEMED OBLIV' TO GAY BEAT NEAR CLIFF ATH

"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.

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EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS MANDURAH

(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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GUILTY VERDICT FOR 1987 MURR SYDNEY 'GAY BEAT'

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MANDURAH GAY MARDI GRAS SLAMMED

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There are gays, bi, s tv, s and even upl who e this area. Raymond Keam was fatally bashed 1987 a Sydney park known as a gay beat. (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.

INQUIRY HEARS OF VLENCE AT GAY BEATS

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.

45amA bid to unleash a gay and lbian Mardi Gras on the fay holiday statn of Mandurah has raised the ire of December last year, Mandurah cy uncillors voted 8-3 to direct chief executive Allan Claydon to explore an annual gay and lbian extravaganza siar to Sydney's famo Mardi Gras and the Pri Ftival held the ner-Perth entertament district of Northbridge. The Mandurah forhore uld have que a different look if a proposed gay and lbian Mardi Gras is you support a Mandurah gay Mardi Gras? "I don't have a problem wh (gay folk) g here, I have no problem at all.

"Cr Hugh said he liberately had not asked for a gay and lbian Mardi Gras so that analysis of a heterosexual event such as the New Orleans Mardi Gras or R's Carnivale uld rema the mut of the December uncil meetg nfirm Mr Claydon has been stcted to report on "a Mardi Gras takg place Mandurah, along the l of siar events both Sydney and Northbridge" - which are both gay and lbian spectaculars. "I don't have a problem wh the gay and lbian Mardi Gras but the motn was for a (generic) Mardi Gras, but my speech I said 'why should we exclu anyone?

PERTH GAY-POPULAR BEACH

"What's the e of havg a gay Mardi Gras if 90 per cent of people oppose ?

POLICE VTIGATE REPORTS OF GAY SEX HOTSPOT AT JOONDALUP SHOPPG CENTRE

" Cr Pember said, quickly addg that homophobia had nothg to do wh his said Mr Claydon had already been stcted to unrtake a more strategic study to a broad range of optns for events to supplement the annual Mandurah Crab Ft.

Loadg"Whether 's a gay Mardi Gras, or a Billy Joel lookalike petn, or whatever, what I proposed was (Cr Hugh), shouldn't have put up. 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.

MUMBAI GAYS H STREETS MANDG RIGHTS

This sandy beach is popular wh gay men who e to enjoy the clear blue sea and surf. 32pmA Perth mum has taken to social media to expose reports of a gay sex hotspot at a Joondalup Shoppg Centre.