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Contents:

• TOP GAY SPOTS IN MELBOURNE
• CULTURALLY AND HISTORILLY SIGNIFINT PLACE FOR GAY MUNY
• EXPOSG THE SHOCKG PLAN BEHD ATRALIA’S GAY PRISON
• ANGER SWELLS OVER BID TO GAY-PROOF BEACH
• THE BT GAY BARS MELBOURNE
• WHAT ARE THE GAY BARS IN MELBOURNE?
• THE BEAT, A MELBOURNE-MA GAY-THEMED MURR MYSTERY, OUT NOW
• MELBOURNE GAY CISE CLUBS
• MELBOURNE GAY MAP
• MELBOURNE GAY SNAS

TOP GAY SPOTS IN MELBOURNE

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EXPOSG THE SHOCKG PLAN BEHD ATRALIA’S GAY PRISON

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ANGER SWELLS OVER BID TO GAY-PROOF BEACH

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WHAT ARE THE GAY BARS IN MELBOURNE?

)South Melbourne, VIC, Atraliaemail protected]Victoria's longt-nng social group for mature LGBT people and their iends, the BSV has been operatg for over 50 years and is believed to be the olst gay club operatg Atralia. 00amA PROPOSED ''gay-proof fence'' signed to stop lewd behavur on the forhore of a popular nudist beach has divid rints on the Morngton Pensula, and furiated equal opportuny Victorian Civil and Admistrative Tribunal will ci if proment bsman Charl Jabsen n build a 400-metre fence that would separate Moondah Beach om a public forhore rerve Mount Eliza.

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Morngton Pensula uncillor Leigh Etace, sportg a "giveaway" backpack, at the se of a proposed fence signed to stop lewd behavur at a popular nudist Craig SilloeAt a velopment meetg wh Morngton Pensula Shire Council Febary, Mr Jabsen raised hackl when he said the area had bee a notor pick-up spot for homosexuals, who created ''love nts'' among forhore Graham Ptock said the mpaign to build a 1. 8-metre boundary fence wh metr of the high-ti mark was explicly targeted at homosexuals and vlated Victoria's human rights charter.

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Obvly, people n't be nied accs to public spac bee of their sexual preference, '' Cr Ptock Jabsen urted further ntroversy durg a recent se vis wh uncillors, when he allegedly ma the claim that gay men uld be intified by their choice of luggage, acrdg to Cr Leigh Etace.

''When we saw a man nng along the beach wh a backpack, Mr Jabsen said this was a giveaway sign of a homosexual, '' Cr Etace said.

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Mr Jabsen's alleged ments were brand ''ridiculo and offensive at the same time'' by the Victorian Gay & Lbian Rights Lobby. ''The whole ia of erectg a fence to keep out gay men specifilly is ludicro. Margaret, who asked that her surname be whheld, said she had enuntered gay upl havg sex on two ocsns.

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''We have had lls about beg a meetg place for some gays and we have been down there and you n certaly see some ltle meetg areas among the tea-tre, '' Senr Sergeant Aubert Jabsen refed to answer qutns when ntacted by The Sunday Age.