‘I was totally gripped wh fear’: quiry exam 40 years of gay hate crim | LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardian

Contents:

• CONGREGATN RALLI BEHD GAY UPLE WHO ARE LEAVG WT ARMIDALE ANGLIN CHURCH
• ‘I WAS TOTALLY GRIPPED WH FEAR’: QUIRY EXAM 40 YEARS OF GAY HATE CRIM
• NSW POLICE: HUNTG GAY MEN AT BEATS
• GAY DATG ARMIDALE
• NSW POLICE ENABLED GAY HATE MURRS
• CANBERRA, NOT SYDNEY, IS THE GAY AND LBIAN PAL OF ATRALIA
• GAY MARRIED UPLE TOLD TO SEPARATE, BE CELIBATE TO KEEP JOB CHURCH
• ‘A NEW CHURCH’: WHY A UNG REVEREND IS PREACHG TO ANGLINS A GAY UPLE’S HOME
• MAN’S FURY OVER ‘PRAVED’ TOILET ACT SPARKS BATE OVER GAY BEATS

CONGREGATN RALLI BEHD GAY UPLE WHO ARE LEAVG WT ARMIDALE ANGLIN CHURCH

If ’s any help I’m an 18 y/o closeted bi/gay guy (don’t really know yet) and I would probably spend 3 years at UNE before pletg the rt of my gree Newstle. The ngregatn at a small Anglin church northern NSW has rallied behd a gay uple, who have left the church after a dispute wh the pots:Peter Sanrs and his hband both held learship posns at St Mary's church, Wt 've stepped away after ncerns om the clergy over their ngregatn has begun a mpaign to have the men Sanrs, the former anist at St Mary's Anglin Church  Wt Armidale, has been married to his hband sce early last said he was told May that he uld not ntue that role unls he and his hband separated, lived celibately and unrtook relig uple did not agree to those ndns, and have sce stopped attendg church servic.

(Supplied: Sharon Roobol)"It was our rpective parish, the past, that had helped to accept ourselv and live the life that we believe God tend to live as gay Christian men, " he Bishop of the Armidale Dce, Reverend Rod Chiswell, said a statement that he and the Dean had sought to have a "pastoral nversatn" wh Mr Sanrs and his hband, and did not dismiss Mr Sanrs om his role.

‘I WAS TOTALLY GRIPPED WH FEAR’: QUIRY EXAM 40 YEARS OF GAY HATE CRIM

Now 88, Peterk told the special missn of quiry to LGBTQ+ hate crim Sydney this week that he’d been targeted for beg gay as far back as the 1950s, when he was arrted by unrver police at a known meet-up spot.

NSW POLICE: HUNTG GAY MEN AT BEATS

His acunt gave a glimpse to the experienc of a ral gay man whose life spans the quiry’s reference dat, 1970 to jt a few days of heargs, the broast snapshot ever of ral and regnal LGBTQ+ hate crim has e to light. In the 1950s he moved to Sydney to take up teachg 1956, 28 years before homosexualy was crimalised NSW, he was arrted by a police officer posg as a gay man at a North Sydney ‘beat’, a public toilet or other public place equented by men seekg ntact, often sexual, wh same-sex attracted men.

Homophobic people knew that homosexual men would attend a public toilet and would lie wa. ”Country men killed spected hate crime attacksThe quiry has listed two unsolved aths of gay men om regnal areas who may have been killed. Both men later died of signifint head Miller, om Orange the New South Wal central wt, attend the annual Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras March 1997.

GAY DATG ARMIDALE

Parrabell also looked at the ath of 33-year-old Rsell Payne, who was found ad his home at Inverell 1989; and the ath of 36-year-old Graham Paynter, whose body was disvered at the base of a cliff at Tathra on the state’s far-south ast the same ’s ath was tegorised as a spected crime of “bias”, but the Parrabell report stated that evince of gay hate was eher not found the other ral s, or there was sufficient rmatn llected durg ial police quiri to now tegorise any motive for them. Payne’s ath was not vtigated as a least one ral killg of a gay man rulted a nvictn. The motive of gay-hatred was raised but not tablished durg the subsequent trial, although the Parrabell vtigatn tegorised the 67-year-old’s ath as a spected bias crime.

A 2020 parliamentary quiry report stated that the NSW police had “failed s rponsibili to properly vtigate” gay and transgenr hate current special missn will quire to unsolved Parrabell s, and unsolved aths where the victim was om the LGBTQ+ muny and the cint was prevly vtigated by NSW police.

NSW POLICE ENABLED GAY HATE MURRS

Michael Burge’s but novel Tank Water (MidnightSun Publishg) explor the subject of gay-hate crim ral Atralia. His article Backwards to Bourke: Bulldt about Gays the Bh was published the Journal of Atralian Studi.

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.

CANBERRA, NOT SYDNEY, IS THE GAY AND LBIAN PAL OF ATRALIA

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. You won't feel opprsn or judgment if you intify as gay Armidale, NSW.

GAY MARRIED UPLE TOLD TO SEPARATE, BE CELIBATE TO KEEP JOB CHURCH

Wh so many young liberals, the suatn wh gay datg Armidale is not terrible. Gay datg other ci of Atralia. It was well known durg the last three s of the twentieth century that vlent attacks were regularly beg perpetrated upon members of the Sydney LGBTIQ muny – pecially gay men and trans women.

ACON, then the AIDS Council of NSW, kept rerds of the gay hate cints, which at their peak amounted to more than 20 a day. Rearch later rried out by former NSW police gay and lbian liaison officer Sue Thompson and crimologist Stephen Tomsen intified 88 aths across our state between 1976 and 2000 that are spected of beg gay hate-related homicis. Of the s reviewed, officers termed there was enough evince, or spected evince, dite that 27 of the aths were gay hate-related homicis.

‘A NEW CHURCH’: WHY A UNG REVEREND IS PREACHG TO ANGLINS A GAY UPLE’S HOME

In Pursu of Tth and Jtice: Documentg Gay and Transgenr Prejudice Killgs NSW the Late 20th Century highlights a number of failgs the NSW crimal jtice system of the time. ACON chief executive Nilas Parkhill poted out that his anisatn’s vtigatn found that at least 50 percent of the s “had an aspect of homophobic or transphobic bias, ” pared wh the 30 percent intified by the NSW police strike force. Acrdg to Parkhill, “many young assailants saw gay men as soft targets and therefore went to well-known gay beats, ” and this should be nsired when termg a bias motive.

“In some s, robbery was clearly opportunistic, or an after-thought havg already killed the gay man. Of the 88 s that rearchers spected uld have a gay-hate motivatn, the Strike Force Parrabell report found that 63 had been solved and 23 remaed unsolved, while 2 were not reviewed by the vtigatn.

MAN’S FURY OVER ‘PRAVED’ TOILET ACT SPARKS BATE OVER GAY BEATS

Of the 86 s that were reviewed, 27 murrs were nfirmed to have, or likely to have, a gay-hate bias behd them. And the third ronial quiry to his ath fally termed that was a gay-hate crime last November.

At the ial qut to the ath, former tective Doreen Cickshank told the urt that the area where the 27-year-old had fallen to his ath wasn’t a gay beat. This was spe North Head beg a well-known place for gay men to meet.

” Although, he did pot to the system for the early intifitn of bias crim and an expand Gay and Lbian Liaison Officer (GLLO) program as enuragg. ” NSW police has said is nsirg issug an apology to the victims of gay-hate crim and their fai. When namg the world's great "rabow ci", New York, San Francis and R Janeiro e to of urse Sydney, home of the annual Mardi Gras, which began as a prott and has bee one of the pla's great open statistilly speakg, Canberra is Atralia's real gay and lbian pal — y, normre Canberra, wh s policians and sued not jt by a ltle.