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• INQUIRY HEARS OF VLENCE AT GAY BEATS
• MAN’S FURY OVER ‘PRAVED’ TOILET ACT SPARKS BATE OVER GAY BEATS
• QAF EVENTS - GAY TOURS & SOCIAL ACTIVI
• GAY GOLD COAST
• GAY BRISBANE GUI | BRISBANE’S BT LGBTIQ+ BARS, CLUBS, RTRANTS & MORE!
• THE BEAT: QUEENSLAND LGBT HISTORY, NGHTY GAY BRISBANE THE 80’S
• GAY MAP OF CAIRNS
• BRISBANE GAY CISE CLUBS

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Two s after the trial, laws expungg homosexual nvictns were Potts says he reprented hundreds of men charged wh homosexual offenc. (ABC News: Alexanr Lewis/State Library of Queensland)The then Labor opposn ed the se to advote for the repeal of anti-gay laws. Dpe nservativ warng of a "gay flood" if the party was elected, Wayne Goss beme premier the followg 1991 the Sunshe State beme Atralia's send-last jurisdictn to crimalise homosexual acts between nsentg adults.

But even prentg as a man did not protect her om the Albert Park public toilet Sprg Hill, a well-known gay beat, Ms Turnbull says she was asslted by two police officers. (ABC News: Mart Dobras)She says while her fay were supportive "to the bt of their abili", they still believed homosexualy was sful. "It was not until Mr Yang moved om Brisbane to Sydney that he was "swept out" of the closet, as the gay liberatn movement began.

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Like most wtern cultur, Queensland outlawed sex between men durg the neteenth and most of the twentieth century; the lol scientific muny nsired homosexuals as perverse and mentally-ill. Some Islanrs me om societi where homosexual iatns were fundamental to beg a man, or where homosexual acts were tolerated male society. Urban subcultur, Beats and behavural s Patterns of urbanisatn and dtrialisatn ensured that Brisbane remaed the primary centre of any dimentary homosexual inty this perd, and the e of public space, pecially around transport hubs, was an important feature of this terrene.

They blend together workg-class and middle-class men, married and unmarried men, those who nsired themselv as homosexual, and those who did not. The offence vered acts of mutual masturbatn and oral sex public or private, givg the police a new tool to ntrol and nta unwanted homosexual behavur as they ramped up efforts to keep certa lotns unr surveillance. Patterns of effemacy and genr-versn were accepted forms of self-exprsn some circl and were certaly an embedd part of homosexual inty by the 1920s.

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.

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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. Gsberg slashed through gay stereotyp of gay male sexualy wh Howl's celebratn of joyo and even holy sexual unn. 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. " The bar's owner, Sol Stoumen, was unwillg to make the payoffs expected that era of proprietors whose clientele clud homosexuals.

The happengs at the Black Cat eventually led to the formatn of the Tavern Guild, a aln of gay bars, 1962.

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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. As Garry Wotherspoon observ: “[H]omosexuals have been imagative creatg other for a range of stutns … sce the ways which heterosexuals n meet each other openly are not available to homosexuals.

(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.

"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.

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"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. Sharg a screenshot of the post to the “Marrickville Rantg/Complats” page, she mocked the man sayg he had “accintally happened across a ‘beat’” — public plac where gay men meet for sex.

”One woman agreed, “The historil beats should be honoured for the role they played gay male life and culture this cy and others. Acrdg to an SBS Pri article om 2016, beats — which “explod” the 1960s and ‘70s — are “still around and very much a part of gay culture”. ”More CoverageOne man who attend beats on a “semi-regular basis” told SBS, “It’s simply bee a part of gay culture and some men — spe beg able to fd someone nearby on Grdr to f**k the fort of their own home — prefer to go cisg at a beat bee that’s what turns them on.

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So you hopped off the plane at LAX (…well BNE) wh a dream and a rdigan (well all we had was a slight haner and well over the allowed 7kg of rry-on luggage), and you’re probably a ltle peckish, so let’s start this gay Brisbane gui off wh lunch! The crowd is one of our favoure thgs about this venue, wh the mographic tly rangg om super young dus, to an olr crowd, gay guys, gay gals and of urse a uple of tag-along token straight iends! Whether you’re there wh a group of 10, or on your own, you’ll end up wh an entirely new group, dancg for approximately five hours straight, flickg between a top 40 room, a throwback ‘gay anthems’ room (plete wh a light up dance floor of urse) and an R & B boogie room.

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And that’s a wrap for our Gay Brisbane Gui – Brg to life, get a mate om terstate and book flights to Brisbane now. “(Kelv) was not gay, jt a betiful young man wh a new girliend he wanted to marry, ” Marshall later tells her rage, she jolts Von Eem wh a qutn about an em Kelv was wearg when he was last seen alive and Eem tak the ba and before he n help himself, a tellg answer is fallg off his tongue. In the whole sick saga of the murrs, om the lurg of boys off the street to dg and rape, to the sister, fastid washg of the bodi before they were dumped, Von Eem’s social toadyg stands Marshall wr, his imagary world Von Eem is scend om a privileged Germanic fay gog back to the time of the imag himself to be a high-flyg profsnal, a pilot or perhaps a gynaelogist, a gay man but not a borg old gay, stead a someone that other men want to be realy, Von Eem grew up a hoe llapsg om terme ftatn wh a vic bte of a Germanic father who allowed his drkg buddy to rape his own son as a Eem was a would-be acuntant who slogged out a ted job as a bookkeeper for years, while livg wh his his secret life, he beme a dg supplier and exploed dg-addicted trans women to lure victims off the was a 193cm-tall ward who ed date rape dgs like Mandrax to overpower and sexually abe revisg the murrs, Marshall is tryg to unearth long-held secrets South Atralia, where supprsn orrs have protected “people of power and fluence” for still do: she succeed havg five supprsn orrs on nam clu a man named Lewis Turtur, a former acquatance of Von Eem’s who cid was “time” the tth about the killer’s days of dggg and rapg, who had no volvement wh any of the Fay Murrs, relled Von Eem brgg dgged-up boys to his hoe for the boys he saw left the morng still alive, but he told Marshall that they arrived unnsc, or barely so, and “Von Eem had dgged them” had gone to police followg the revelatns about Richard Kelv’s murr 1983.

”Von Eem said he enjoyed nights when cells were locked and “you are ee to do what you want” clud patg and drawg birthday rds for other mat and their Eem’s power of manipulatn go back s to when he was masqueradg by day as the d-mannered mother was the envy of her iends for havg such a “good” son who dutifully drove her to the Alai Hills to stay wh a iend while he got up to nefar life back night, Von Eem equented Alai’s Mars Bar and the Green Dragon, and s notor gay beats down by the Torrens River where boys were picked and sometim tossed to s was known as “Bevbang”, his parti guaranteed to turn to an y fuelled by the dgs he peddled om bent doctors. Marshall believ Von Eem was “very probably impotent” which might expla the terrible acts perpetrated on Richard Kelv as a kd of twisted display of potency or was an associate of gay lawyer Derrance Stevenson, who was murred two weeks before Alan Barn – who may have wns the event – went missg. For better or worse, I was advertently volved changg the face and fabric of gay history the aptly named Queensland, by posng my nightclub, The Beat as a proud gay venue, at a time when was illegal to be gay agast a backdrop of police rptn and a ernment sperate to squash .

We cid to make the gay symbol at the time — the pk triangle (this was at a time well before the rabow flag symbol was adopted by the muny) — the centerpiece of our logo, and pated on the brick stuc exterr of the buildg fa — ma no secret of what The Beat was — and thoands, if not hundreds of thoands of Queenslanrs over time, joed . Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s Queensland of the ’80’s reprents the most terrifyg era the Atralian history of gay people.