Geni Optns Book on Growg Up Gay and Disabled 1980s London - Variety

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.

NSW POLICE: HUNTG GAY MEN AT BEATS

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. 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.

GUILTY VERDICT FOR 1987 MURR 'GAY BEAT'

Homosexualy was part of the North Beach scene.

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. Both Beats and gays challenged the nformist prsur of the .

GUILTY VERDICT FOR 1987 MURR SYDNEY 'GAY BEAT'

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. " 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.

INQUIRY HEARS OF VLENCE AT GAY BEATS

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. 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.

COPS 'HARASSED' MEN AT GAY BEATS: QUIRY

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

GUILTY VERDICT FOR 1987 MURR 'GAY BEAT'

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.

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. Philip Seymour Hoffman brgs his ual grace to his portrayal of gay novelist Tman Capote, who leav New York Cy wh his childhood iend Harper Lee (before To Kill a Mockgbird fame)to report on the murr of a Kansas fay. Osr Wil, one of the most inic gay wrers history, and his battle to not only fall love but avoid beg jailed for are documented this '90s flick.

COPS 'HARASSED' MEN AT GAY BEATS: QUIRY

This foreign drama portrays Too Laaksonen, a gay erotic artist who is known to the world as Tom of Fland. After returng home as a hero WWII, he realiz that postwar Fland is overn wh homophobic persecutn and only his unhibed art n help his peers fd sexual eedom.

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 heard. The 72-year-old long-time gay rights activist was givg evince at the NSW Special Commissn of Inquiry to LGBTIQ hate crim. It 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.

"While as a young man om Punchbowl ( Sydney's wt) I had no ia how to fd a gay bar, beats were somethg I uld fd, " he said. "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. The Bondi to Tamarama track Sydney's eastern suburbs was known as a gay beat the 1980s.

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

Police would regularly harass ers of Sydney's gay beats the late '80s and early '90s, cludg g "psychologil" tactics, a hate crime quiry has been told. Many gay men were arrted an attempt to shut down the beats, creatg fear and mistst among ers who already faced vlence and risk of disease at the height of the AIDS epimic. Another tactic ed by police was to take the rmatn of men at gay beats wh the implic threat of makg that public.

Earlier this week the NSW Special Commissn of Inquiry to LGBTQI hate crim was told of police showg difference to gay hate crim.