They lived in Canberra, the capital, where Johnson studied at Australian National University, which awarded him a posthumous PhD. A second coroner in 2012 could not explain how he died.īesides Caltech, Johnson studied at Cambridge University in England before moving to Australia in 1986 to live with his Australian partner, Michael Noone.
Some men were also robbed.Ī coroner ruled in 1989 that Johnson had taken his own life. The coroner also found that gangs of men roamed various Sydney locations in search of gay men to attack, resulting in the deaths of some victims. Life for LGBTQ people in Ukraine had been improving, while Russian President Vladimir Putin has systematically attacked gay and transgender people.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.” Will Russia bring its war on LGBTQ people to Ukraine?
Outside court, Steve Johnson, a resident of Boston, thanked prosecutors and the Australian judicial system for ensuring that White was sent to prison. She said she became aware of a reward only when the victim’s brother, Steve Johnson, doubled the sum in 2020. Under cross-examination Monday, Helen White denied that she had been aware of a reward worth 1 million Australian dollars ($704,000) for information on Johnson’s murder when she went to police in 2019. This feeling was no way near the height as to what it was years ago but still I felt it cast a shadow over me. The feeling came from my stomach and it felt like shame.
Wilson did not accept the defense lawyers’ argument that Helen White had been motivated to report her ex-husband to police by a reward. I was not comfortable in my own skin as I do not I think I have fully accepted who I am, a gay man living in this world. 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. Six people were jumped in a parking lot after leaving a Pasadena restaurant hosting an LGBTQ event last week, sources said. Brutal attack after drag event in Pasadena sparks hate crime investigation