NSW police: huntg gay men at beats | Green Left

Contents:

• CHIEFS PLAYER WILLIE GAY PULLED OVER SEYMOUR, MO. TRAFFIC STOP; POLICE REPORT POLE ENUNTER
• NSW POLICE: HUNTG GAY MEN AT BEATS
• GUILTY VERDICT FOR 1987 MURR 'GAY BEAT'
• GUILTY VERDICT FOR 1987 MURR SYDNEY 'GAY BEAT'
• INQUIRY HEARS OF VLENCE AT GAY BEATS
• COPS 'HARASSED' MEN AT GAY BEATS: QUIRY
• GUILTY VERDICT FOR 1987 MURR 'GAY BEAT'
• COPS 'HARASSED' MEN AT GAY BEATS: QUIRY
• IS TROYE SIVAN’S ‘RH’ SEXY FUN OR GAY DETR?

CHIEFS PLAYER WILLIE GAY PULLED OVER SEYMOUR, MO. TRAFFIC STOP; POLICE REPORT POLE ENUNTER

Gabe Stroud met Chiefs lebacker Willie Gay durg a traffic stop Saturday morng. Stroud exprsed “pole and iendly” enunter wh Gay.

Beats ed to be a place where men uld meet before gay pri movements won the right to meet pubs and clubs. Beat ers have reported hourly patrols by several police vehicl, vert patrols on foot, the wrongful "banng" people om the area for 28 days, rogatory personal ments, threats to e pepper spray, e of unnecsary force, arrt whout charge and other homophobic behavur. In a letter to cy admistrators, LECD says that by regulatg sex public, the safety of homosexuals om "queer-bashers" n be better guaranteed.

Communy Actn Agast Homophobia (CAAH) is mpaigng to end harassment of men Sydney beats and will provi onle rmatn for beat ers to bee better rmed of their rights when approached by police. The Beats, pecially around Gsberg, laid the foundatn for later synergi created by gay poets.

NSW POLICE: HUNTG GAY MEN AT BEATS

After the Send World War, San Francis slowly beme home to both a gay bar subculture and a homophile activist movement, which mostly operated isolatn om each other. There was a burgeong Beat culture North Beach, two homosexual bar payola sndals volvg the police partment and the mayor, and an vasive police crackdown agast gay bars that lasted three years.

The San Francis Beats and the gays had a symbtic relatnship. " One uld say the same about the unrground culture of gay leathermen that was about to emerge. Homosexualy was part of the North Beach scene.

GUILTY VERDICT FOR 1987 MURR 'GAY BEAT'

Many of the Beats were homosexual, cludg Gsberg, Jack Spicer, Robert Dunn, and Rob Blaser. Gsberg slashed through gay stereotyp of gay male sexualy wh Howl's celebratn of joyo and even holy sexual unn. He served as a bridge between the tolerant lerary world and the emergg gay polil scene.

GUILTY VERDICT FOR 1987 MURR SYDNEY 'GAY BEAT'

Both Beats and gays challenged the nformist prsur of the .

Thanks to the Beats, gays uld now view themselv as nonnformists rather than mentally ill rebels wh a e. North Beach was home to gay and lbian bars, cludg the Black Cat, an area stutn, as well as gay cisg areas, wh all spreadg down to Polk Street and to the Tenrlo. Gsberg scribed as "the greatt gay bar Ameri.

INQUIRY HEARS OF VLENCE AT GAY BEATS

" The bar's owner, Sol Stoumen, was unwillg to make the payoffs expected that era of proprietors whose clientele clud homosexuals. Th began the nnectn between gay bars and gay polics. He even beme the first out gay person to n for supervisor San Francis.

His 5, 600 vot forhadowed the powerful polil nstuency that gays and lbians would bee. The happengs at the Black Cat eventually led to the formatn of the Tavern Guild, a aln of gay bars, 1962. The Guild retaed a lawyer and bail bondsman for anyone arrted or near a gay bar, and published a brochure on how to al wh beg arrted or harassed by policemen.

COPS 'HARASSED' MEN AT GAY BEATS: QUIRY

The rise of the Guild gave polil legimacy to gay bars, fendg their right to be ee om arbrary harassment.

Raymond Keam was fatally bashed 1987 a Sydney park known as a "gay beat".

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  Randwick's Alison Park spectg he was homosexual. Alison Park had a reputatn for beg a "gay beat", crown prosecutor Ken McKay SC told the jury as the trial began.

GUILTY VERDICT FOR 1987 MURR 'GAY BEAT'

Raymond Keam was fatally bashed 1987 a Sydney park known as a gay beat.

COPS 'HARASSED' MEN AT GAY BEATS: QUIRY

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. Alison Park had a reputatn for beg a gay beat, crown prosecutor Ken McKay SC told the jury as the trial began. Mr 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 actn.

IS TROYE SIVAN’S ‘RH’ SEXY FUN OR GAY DETR?

Based on the bgraphy Alan Turg: The Enigma, The Imatn Game explor how the Brish ernment punished one of s most brilliant war hero bee he was gay. Osr-wner Sean Penn brgs to life one of the first openly gay men elected to a notable public office and how his life -- and assassatn -- changed Ameri forever. Although there are several films that portray gay beat poet Allen Gsberg, Kill Your Darlgs is our favore of the bunch.