A large protest was organised outside NSW Parliament and buildings were “splattered with red paint”.įormer NSW Deputy Coroner Jacqueline Milledge, who led the 2005 inquest into the deaths of gay men inadequately investigated by police, told the memorial: “The police response to the murders was dismissive. He was murdered in at Mackenzies Point in Bondi South in July 1990.Ĭallaghan wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald last October that Rattanajurathaporn’s murder was a “watershed moment for Australia’s LGBTQ community”. Kritchikorn Rattanajurathaporn, a 31-year-old Thai man who had only been in Sydney for four months, was set upon by youths using a claw hammer. Bigoted young men and women in gangs hunted in packs: some threw men off cliffs, entrapped and beat them to death in public toilets and murdered them in their homes. “The gay haters knew where to go,” Callaghan said. Marks Park was a gay beat - an outdoor area where gay men have casual sex or meet gay friends. Gilles Jaques Mattaini, a 27-year-old Frenchman went missing in 1985 Ross Warren, a 24-year-old TV presenter was murdered in 1989 and John Russell was murdered in 1989, aged 31. anti-gay violence was taking place all over”.Ĭallaghan said the headland at Marks Park “became a deadly epicentre” where “at least three gay men lost their lives”.
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Greg Callaghan, author of the book and podcast series Bondi Badlands told the gathering that, as Sydney became an “international gay beacon” during the late 1980s with the promotion of Mardi Gras, “because of stigma surrounding HIV-AIDS and criminalisation.
The real number of murders is probably much higher, as many did not go to the police for fear of homophobic reprisal. United States: Republicans attack abortion, LGBTI rightsĪn estimated 88 gay men were murdered and many people were assaulted during this period.