Gay strip search
Tasty raids that 'shocked' Melbourne's queer community remembered 30 years on
It was a regular Saturday night at one of Melbourne's well-liked gay night spots.
The Commerce Club on Flinders Path was packed for a weekly event known as Tasty, and bar manager Gerard O'Connor was productive his usual shift.
Just after 2am on August 7, 1994 — 30 years ago this week — dozens of police stormed the club.
The lights were turned on, the melody stopped, and police used a megaphone to explain patrons to put their hands on their heads or against the walls.
Loading...Police searched the ground with torches, looking for discarded drugs.
Then over the next three hours, 463 patrons and staff were forced to strip off their clothing, many in complete view of others, while police conducted invasive searches.
"One by one, people had to remove all their clothing and bend over, basically," O'Connor said.
"What transpired was pretty horrific."
Rumour mill predicted club's raid
Tasty, a members-only club for a mostly gay and female homosexual crowd, had moved to the Commerce Club earlier that year and was building in popularity.
"It had a bit of a Studio
Seven prison strip search videos from movies, television and real CCTV video footage.
First up is Ryan Gosling's introduction to prison including being
forced to strip out of his clothes from the film A Place Beyond the Pines.
An attractive new arrival endures an embarrassing strip search and
body cavity search in this brief clip.
A very terse naked physical examination of male prisoner from 2005
Czech movie "Kousek Nebe".
A handsome man endures a strip search in an Indian prison.
Source: 2009 film "Jail" starring Neil Nitin Mukesh
Samuel L Jackson experiences a prison strip search along with
his other inmates in scenes from the movie "Against the Wall".
Black and white inmates suffer a degrading cell check and strip search
in this real experience prison footage.
CCTV footage reveals a jail strip search gone wrong resulting
in the prisoner getting tasered. Ouch!
ADDITIONAL CLIPS ADDED THIS WEEK DIRECTLY ON OUR MOVIES PAGE:
"Tom Cruise Bondage Scene from Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation"
"Bondage Scene from Turkish TV Show"
"Handsome Russian Agent Abused"
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Strip Search
For my second one-man show of the evening I headed to The Space at North Bridge to see Strip Seek which was written last year by Peter Scott-Presland for the Homos Promos production company.
Daniel Onadeko plays an ex-squaddie who takes us through his life as a youth turning tricks for funds, joining the army and then getting into stripping. Cleverly (and intringingly for certain members of the audience) at each climactic point (pun intended) of the piece he would remove a further item of clothing.
I was expecting a play about a stripping ex-squaddie with nudity and gay overtones but this was a highly layered (pun unintended) piece of drama. It is a detailed and true examination of someone gradually dealing with emotions that they had buried within themselves.
The journalist, director and producer (amazingly all one person) allowed Daniel to understand his own nature after the audience had worked it out, which is a brave and difficult feat to achieve.
Having commended the writing I must strongly recommend Daniel Onadeko's performance. No one-man exhibition is easy but he exposes more than just raw emotion. In an hour of surprises (all pleasant) one of the biggest was hea
"You are one crazy mother, cous, you get stopped and you're looking at minimum eighteen months jail. It can't possibly be worth it for that little bit of weed."
"Look Matt, they are never going to stop me to search me, I'm the cute clean chop college boy, I wouldn't dream of smuggling drugs in. You know I always waltz through on my winsome smile."
Zack wasn't really arrogant or conceited but people had been telling him for years how cute he was. Now at eighteen years old he believed it and realised that organism cute had made experience easy for him. People liked to please him because he was kind, had a killer smirk and had a body that people from both sexes lusted after.
A miniature provincial airport, no advanced equipment so Zack felt safe carrying a chunk of weed he had bought in one of the many legal coffee shops in Amsterdam. He and Matt reclaimed their luggage and started to walk through the "Nothing to Declare" aisle when a young customs officer stepped forward and indicated that they should place their bags on the search platform. Matt looked in shock at Zack which the customs officer picked up.
"Ok, you can go, I just long for your friend."
Matt sighed in relief at h
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