Max* informed me that finding straight men to hook up with is not that hard. It is not necessarily about sexual attraction to a gender, but sexual pleasure.įinding a gay man who has experience in this was not difficult at all. After investigating the issue and speaking to some of the men involved, I was surprised to find out that as well as some of these men being in the closet, there is also a population of guys out there who are hooking up with other guys just for the pure ease at which a hook up can occur. I’d heard of the term “men who have sex with men” (msm), but was confused as to why these straight men/gay men hook-ups were occurring so commonly, and what it was all about.Īre these men secretly gay and in hiding?Īs it turns out, not all of them are. It’s a subject that has always fascinated me because I have many gay friends who bed these so-called straight (and often married) men with excitement, enthusiasm and frequency. He was staying a Noone’s parents’ Sydney home when he died.IF A man is sexual with another man, is he gay? You can kiss a girl and like it and be straight, but man on man sex is quickly put in the category of homosexuality. They lived in Canberra where Johnson studied at the Australian National University which posthumously awarded him a Ph.D. Johnson studied at universities in California and at Cambridge in Britain before moving to Australia in 1986 to live with his Australian partner Michael Noone. Some men were also robbed.Ī coroner had ruled in 1989 that Johnson had taken his own life, while a second coroner in 2012 could not explain how he died. The coroner also found that gangs of men roamed various Sydney locations in search of gay men to assault, resulting in the deaths of some victims. White’s lawyers have appealed his conviction and hope he will be acquitted of the murder charge in a jury trial.Ī coroner ruled in 2017 that Johnson “fell from the clifftop as a result of actual or threatened violence by unidentified persons who attacked him because they perceived him to be homosexual.” She said a sentence for the same crime today would be “much higher.” The evidence is too slender to support that,” Wilson added. Neither is the court imposing a sentence for a crime motivated by hatred for a particular sector of society. “Because of the lapse of time, the offender is no longer the same angry young man who raised his fists to another on the edge of a cliff. “It should be understood that the court is not sentencing a violent and reckless young man for a targeted attack on a gay man,” Wilson said. White had a record of violent crime before and after the murder but had not committed any offense since 2008. “Today I feel like we’ve had answers and we’ve had justice, and that’s for our brother and that’s for gay men who were bashed or killed in that era,” she said. Younger sister Rebecca Johnson said she was satisfied with the sentence. “We didn’t get compensation for Scott this week but what Scott got was dignity,” the older sibling told reporters. Outside court, Boston resident Steve Johnson thanked prosecutors and the judicial system for ensuring White was sent to prison. She said she only became aware of a reward when the victim’s brother, Steve Johnson, doubled the sum in 2020. Under cross-examination on Monday, Helen White denied she had been aware of a 1 million Australian dollar ($704,000) reward for information on Johnson’s murder when she went to police in 2019.
Wilson did not accept the defense lawyers’ argument that Helen White had been motivated to report him to police by a reward. Johnson must have been terrified, aware that he would strike the rocks below and conscious of his fate,” Wilson added. “In those seconds when he must have realized what was happening to him, Dr. Johnson, causing him to stumble backwards and leave the cliff edge,” Wilson said. Wilson said it was not possible to draw any conclusions beyond a reasonable doubt about what had happened at the clifftop.