Cross locals assaulted
A Kings Cross woman assaulted Tuesday night last week believes the event was motivated by her sexuality.
Grace Rey was assaulted by a man and a woman while walking down Roslyn St.
She had met the pair earlier in the evening while drinking at the Sugar Mill.
The incident followed an altercation over a lost wallet, but Rey told Sydney Star Observer, “I feel it was clearly a gay matter.
“It was boys getting jealous and silly. If I was a guy this wouldn’t have happened, but because I was a lesbian.”
Rey has reported the incident to Kings Cross Police and made contact with ACON’s Anti-Violence Project.
Earlier in the evening, just a few blocks down in the Cross, local heritage campaigner Andrew Woodhouse claims to have been verbally abused by security staff outside the Crest Hotel.
Woodhouse was attempting to remove an advertising poster from a lamppost outside the hotel, in accordance with City of Sydney regulations, when a bouncer from the venue approached him.
“He yelled at me, ‘What are you doing, you fucking cocksucker’, ” Woodhouse said. “I looked at his ID card. He immediately removed the card to inside his shirt and covered it up.”
News of a suspected homophobic killer in Centennial Park and of aggravated assaults on local heritage campaigner, Andrew Woodhouse and MG grace Rey are no surprise to Kings Cross locals.
The Crest Hotel refuses to apologise or rescind its security contract. The Sugarmills is a notorious crime hot spot, yet NSW Police seen powerless to prevent such attacks.
How much longer is it before gays take matters into their own hands?
Perhaps it’s time to exhume The Sacred Band, a gay group of the toughest Theban warriors from classical times, to fight back?
ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Band_of_Thebes
Editor’s Note: Please be aware that, other than media speculation because of the location of the body, there is no confirmation the man killed in Centennial Park at the weekend was gay or that this was a gay hate crime. Sydney Star Observer has information suggesting the man was not gay and was unlikely to have been in the park seeking sex.
Police have also broadened their investigation beyond a gay hate crime.
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BOTH THE CREST HOTEL AND SUGARMILLS HOTEL, KINGS CROSS, HAVE BEEN NOTHING BUT A PUBLIC NUISANCE TO LOCALS.
UNSUPRISINGLY, ATTACKS ON PATRONS BY STAFF AND OTHER PATRONS ARE NOT BEING ADDRESSED PROPERLY.
IT’S TIME TO HIT THEM WHERE IT HURTS: IN THE HIP POCKET, AND INSIST THE MINISTER FOR LICQUOR RACING AND GAMING ISSUE AUTOMATIC FINES OF $10,000 AND REDUCE THEIR OPERATING HOURS.
WHEN INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE HURT, OTHER PEOPLE HAVE TO ACT.
There is no room for violence in a civilised society.
Locals, Grace Rey and Andrew Woodhouse, deserve better treatment from these Kings Cross Hotels. The Crest Hotel in particular is notoriously anti-local, trading off the larger-lout Friday night crowd.
Congratulations to Clover Moore MP and NSW Premier, Nathan Rees, who have placed a freeze on more licquor-lord beer barns.
Brian S, Kings Cross local
This is just appalling. Both Grace Rey and Andrew Woodhouse obviously did nothing wrong.
I think the Crest Hotel and its grotty “Sports Bar” should be closed.
There are simply too many pubs in too small a space in The Cross, and I hope both these innocent victims sue the socks off these pubs.
MK – local resident, aged 27, and not a wowser