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The secret reason behind Mardi Gras move to ban NSW police

A motivated, radical group wants Mardi Gras to be more exclusionary. Less radical queers are now the enemy.

  • Peter Stahel

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Premier Jacinta Allan and Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes with members of multicultural and advocacy groups on Tuesday.

‘United against American-style division’: Long-awaited anti-vilification reforms reach parliament

Premier Jacinta Allan has detailed the changes, which include up to five years’ jail for inciting hateful or threatening behaviour.

  • Carla Jaeger and Kieran Rooney
Trans rights activists protest against gender critical philosopher Kathleeen Stock outside the Oxford Student Union.

Allan government faces showdown with faith groups over hate laws

It is also facing opposition from women’s sex-based rights groups concerned that the proposed new laws will be weaponised by trans activists.

  • Chip Le Grand
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‘We fundamentally failed’: Apology for victims, survivors of hate crimes

The NSW government has supported all 19 recommendations of a world-first inquiry into gay-hate crimes.

  • Max Maddison
Mick Fuller told Steve Johnson and his wife Rosemarie over Zoom that an arrest for Scott’s murder was imminent.

Three miraculous words transformed everything for Steve and his family

After 32 years, Steve Johnson finally got the news he’d been fighting for: the man who killed his brother was in custody.

  • Steve Johnson
Scott Johnson and his brother Steve.

I thought I knew the brilliant Johnson brothers, but Steve had more to reveal

As he fought to have them investigate his brother’s death, police resented Steve Johnson’s wealth, but he wasn’t born to money.

  • Rick Feneley
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Official apology by the NSW Parliament to those arrested in 1978 at the gay march. Members of the original gay march, known as ’78ers’ attended the apology in the Legislative Chamber.

We commend Minns for committing to an apology to LGBTQ community

Herald senior reporter Andrew Hornery has spent several weeks talking to some who found themselves on the wrong side of the law against homosexuality in NSW.

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Glebe resident Ash Wood and City of Sydney councillor Linda Scott inspect a wall that had been daubed with hate speech graffiti.

One-hour challenge: Council to vote on speedy removal of hate-speech graffiti

Jewish and LGBTQ groups are backing a push for speedier removal of offensive graffiti, following a number of slogans appearing in Sydney playgrounds.

  • Andrew Taylor

What his friend’s killer did in court set Peter on a new life mission

After losing a close friend in horrific circumstances – and witnessing his killer’s brazen insolence – Peter Rolfe knew what he had to do.

  • Greg Callaghan
Uniformed police march in the Mardi Gras parade in 2004.

NSW Police’s participation in Mardi Gras parade cancelled by organisers

Organisers of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras have asked police not to march in the parade on Saturday, police have confirmed.

  • Ben Cubby

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