Wong Kar-wai won Best Director at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival for this film about two Hong Kong men who emigrate to Buenos Aires, after the handover. The force admitted in 2018 that it had played a part in marginalising the LGBT community and enabling society's 'acceptance of shocking violence directed at gay men' during the period. 43 Happy Together (1997) Kino International.
Police later reclassified 27 deaths between the 1970s and 2000 as homophobic hate crimes. When police charged White in 2020, it reignited hopes that several other cold-case killings believed to be gay-hate crimes could also be solved.Īt the time of Mr Johnson's death, gangs roamed Sydney searching for gay men to attack and were known to rob or assault men at 'gay beats', or meet-up points. The sentence to be imposed upon the offender is unlikely to end that grief perhaps it may bring some peace,' Justice Wilson said. 'It is tragic that Mr Johnson and all of Dr Johnson's loved ones have had to endure this bitter pain. Justice Wilson said the killer's assault and indifference to Mr Johnson's fate might have been 'driven by the offender's own self-loathing' as a gay man, but the court did not hear any evidence to prove it was a hate crime.
