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Contents:

• THE BT LGBTQI + AND GAY BEACH SYDNEY
• 10 BT GAY BEACH THE WORLD
• DEEP WATER: WERE 30 UNSOLVED SYDNEY ATHS REALLY GAY HATE CRIM?
• SWIMMG AND PAYG TRIBUTE TO HEROIC GAY ELRS
• THE WORLD'S MOST GAY-FRIENDLY BEACH CI AND RORTS
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS SYDNEY
• THE WORLD'S GAYT BEACH
• ATRALIA HAS LONG HAD A GAY BEACH SUBCULTURE BUT THEY HAVEN'T ALWAYS BEEN SAFE SPAC
• GAY BEACH EXCELLENCE... - LADY BAY
• BT GAY BEACH DTATNS
• BEWARE - NUDIST GAY BEACH WH... - LADY BAY
• THE 10 CLOSEST HOTELS TO SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRASVIEW MAPHOTELS NEAR SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS

THE BT LGBTQI + AND GAY BEACH SYDNEY

As the beach is a ltle difficult to reach, and there aren’t any f or rtrants on the shore, we remend makg all the sential rehments for a relaxg day at this gay beach Sydney. And while there are gay-iendly seasis all across the globe, several rise to the top—whether bee of their sheer bety, their unique character or the crowd they draw.

Fort Lrdale has eclipsed Miami as Florida's go-to gay statn and Sebastian Street Beach, between Sunrise Boulevard and Las Olas Boulevard, fely fli the rabow flag.

10 BT GAY BEACH THE WORLD

Even when 's not Carnaval, "Farme Gay, " to the east of Rua Farme Amoedo, is the loc of gay life R—and a great place to ogle the mcular "Barbi" who sashay between Posto (guard tower) 8 and 9, next to the gay-iendly Ipanema Plaza 9pm, the actn mov to the half-dozen gay bars and clubs the area. ) The peak season, though, ns om early July to early fd the gay sectn of the beach, follow the crowds of buff hombr to the third beach zone, right near Hotel Calipolis.

DEEP WATER: WERE 30 UNSOLVED SYDNEY ATHS REALLY GAY HATE CRIM?

In 2012 the New South Wal puty state roner Carmel Forb overturned the suici fdg but uld not terme how he police have formed Operatn Parrabell, a team of eight tectiv who will apply an FBI measure of hate bias – creria to terme if a crime is motivated by bias agast, for stance, sexual orientatn – to see if as many as 88 Sydney aths datg om the 1970s onward, cludg 30 unsolved s, were gay hate s were marked suici or e unknown, but past police nclns are now beg lled to qutn. A new SBS vtigatn has unvered “ser mistak” were ma the ial vtigatns, cludg the misspellg of one ad man’s Johnson tells Guardian Atralia that applyg the FBI hate bias creria is unlikely to unver gay hate crim bee the strgent checklist requir s to be solved, perpetrators to be intified and their hatred of victims to be proclaimed. Instead, he says, a better exercise would be to pull every police file on every ath near a gay Sydney meetg place om the 1970s to about 2000 and ask: was this se properly vtigated?

SWIMMG AND PAYG TRIBUTE TO HEROIC GAY ELRS

The aim is to attract a natnal dience to the story, and to unver more possible gay hate crim and murrs producer, Darren Dale, says he was spired by hearg 2012 about the murr of Ahmed Ghoniem, who was found Sydney apartment wh multiple stab wounds and blunt trma juri. “I live Potts Pot [ Sydney], and I thought, if there is someone attackg and murrg gay men – more gay people livg there than I spect anywhere else Atralia – then how e ’s not any of the papers, ’s not been the news? Shawn Seet, the director of the ld Canberra polil drama The Co, is at the the prent day, fictnal Detective Senr Constable Tori Ltigman, played by Yael Stone of Orange Is the New Black, her own DNA to see if match DNA found on a piece of lead pipg, which she spects may be her gay brother’s.

THE WORLD'S MOST GAY-FRIENDLY BEACH CI AND RORTS

His 1989 drowng had been rerd as a drama’s central ncerns are: Did the fictnal Kyle “Hammers” Hampton (Craig McLachlan) – a one-time member of a gay-bashg gang – play a role the men’s aths?

Photograph: Sean O'Reilly/SBSThe ‘gay ATM’It was not until 2005, 17 years after Stt Johnson’s ath, that Steve realised his beloved brother might have died vlently: he had been sent a clippg about the vlent aths of three other gay men year the NSW senr puty state roner Jacquele Milledge found that the televisn newsrear Ross Warren, 25, and barman John Rsell, 31, had been murred two separate attacks 1989, most probably thrown off a cliff at Bondi’s Marks Park, which was known as a gay beat.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS SYDNEY

Photograph: Steve JohnsonSteve Johnson believ, along wh many others, that herent bias play a role both the mimal media verage of the stori and the public and police rponse to vlent crim agast gay people.

THE WORLD'S GAYT BEACH

“I’m unsure what role homophobia played the 1980s, ” he says, “but certaly seemed that the police systematilly avoid vtigatg the aths of gay men, or men prumed to be gay. His brother says this was an implsible ncln: many gay men have told his vtigatn that the area had been a popular beat sce the 1960s but gay men were often too sred to report asslts bee “police treated them like perpetrators, not victims”’s vtigatn also clud terviewg former gay-bashg gang members, who had sentially operated wh impuny bee there was still a “lot of hatred towards gays”, he says. Obelisk, which ss wh the Sydney Harbour Natnal Park, is a betiful place where all men, regardls of their age, ethnicy, body type or inty n meet and socialise whout judgement or homosexualy was crimalised and gay men uld legally meet bars and night clubs, beach had been clanste meetg plac or ‘beats’ for many years Sydney.

ATRALIA HAS LONG HAD A GAY BEACH SUBCULTURE BUT THEY HAVEN'T ALWAYS BEEN SAFE SPAC

Other than the nvictns that equently occurred until homosexualy was crimalised New South Wal 1984, gay men were often subjected to abe, vlence and ‘poofter bashg’ till the 1980s, s.

GAY BEACH EXCELLENCE... - LADY BAY

Many of the crim rema unsolved, suggtg, at bt, a police reluctance to vtigate and prosecute gay hate right to gather publicly whout fear or timidatn is somethg that several past generatns of gay men Sydney were never able to enjoy, and the activists who lobbied for gay legal reform are te and brave value of plac like Obelisk for gay men to meet openly, relax safely and socialise whout victimisatn or vilifitn nnot be unrtimated. The right to gather publicly whout fear or timidatn is somethg that several past generatns of gay men Sydney were never able to enjoy, and the activists who lobbied for gay legal reform are te and brave hero. It seems marvelloly apt for the classilly botted urananists of Victorian tim to the jubilantly naked divers David Hockney’s swimmg pool patgs, gay men have been key figur the nex between swimmg and heroic art.

BT GAY BEACH DTATNS

Sprawson’s book giv an acunt of how swimmg has mhed wh lerature and culture sce the Classil Age, and argu that gay men have been central subjects this narrative.

From the classilly botted urananists of Victorian tim to the jubilantly naked divers David Hockney’s swimmg pool patgs, gay men have been key figur the nex between swimmg and heroic art. Whatever the evolutn of the para, ’s my hope that ntu to champn the heart and nvictn of the fal float a few years back when marchers Amnty Internatnal’s ‘Rabow Amnty’ float held plards wh betiful fac and tragic ptns: a gay youth murred Chechyna, a Greek man bashed to ath, a Brazilian LGBTIQA+ activist executed. The banner spoke of an thentic heroism, and of I swim today a safe gay space and anticipate the pri and pleasur of Mardi Gras, I acknowledge the efforts and sacrific of our elr activists.

BEWARE - NUDIST GAY BEACH WH... - LADY BAY

If we n be all the thgs, we n ed be Baker is a eelance wrerThe 2021 Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras live Saturday 6 March 6pm AEDT on SBS On Demand (geo-block removed for viewers ternatnally) or tch the full para at 7:30pm on SBS and the nversatn on SBS Atralia socials #WeRiseFor #MardiGras2021 and via.

Although urban statns tend to be most popular wh gay travelers bee of their rich cultural offergs, vibrant nightlife districts, and chic shoppg and dg, a number of the world's most gay-popular ci also enjoy picturque settgs on the water. From megaci wh skyscrapers on the ocean to relatively smaller statns on tranquil bays and lak, here's a ndown of the world's 20 bt gay urban beach statns (populatn 150, 000 or greater).

THE 10 CLOSEST HOTELS TO SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRASVIEW MAPHOTELS NEAR SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS

Wh outstandg mms, distctive archecture (cludg several treasur by Antoni Gdi) a lively gay nightlife scene centered mostly around the sophistited Eixample district, and an abundance of stylish rtrants and hotels, Barcelona is a terrific statn for urban, yet there's a sweepg and betiful gay beach, Barceloa, jt mut om the cy center.

It's jt a short drive south along the ast to vis some of the Southern Hemisphere's most betiful beach, cludg swank Camp Bay, which li the shadows of the Twelve Apostle mountas, and Clifton, which has a scene-y gay beach.