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Ian Roberts is eager to address the issue of sexuality with Papua New Guinean players where it is still illegal to be homosexual

Homosexuality is illegal in PNG. The NRL is all about inclusivity. How do they square the two?

Ian Roberts, still the only openly gay Australian rugby league player in the past 30 years, sees the new PNG NRL franchise as an opportunity to change attitudes in the Pacific nation.

  • Christian Nicolussi

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Trans rights activists take part in a protest against the ban on hormone blockers in London in April.

Britain bans puberty blockers after reviews finds them too risky

The indefinite ban will apply to children with gender dysphoria and comes after a judge said young people were caught up in “stormy social discourse”.

  • Michael Searles
Murder crime scene

Hundreds of murder cases to be re-examined by special taskforce

More than two dozen detectives are using covert DNA testing and re-examining troves of evidence to help crack hundreds of unsolved murders in NSW.

  • Amber Schultz
Teen gangs, some arrested in terror raids, have been luring gay men to parks around Sydney, attacking and filming false confessions to silence their victims.

‘Pedo hunts’: Gay-bashing teen gangs in wave of Sydney attacks

The teenagers are luring men to public parks before bashing, robbing and filming their victims for social media in a shocking revival of Sydney’s gay hate era.

  • Perry Duffin
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb (centre) marches with colleagues in the 2023 Mardi Gras parade.

‘Slap in the face’: Move to ban police from Mardi Gras attacked as hypocritical

As Mardi Gras members prepare to vote on barring NSW Police from participating in the 2025 parade, the premier has condemned the move.

  • Max Maddison

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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NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb (centre) marches with colleagues in the 2023 Mardi Gras parade.

Mardi Gras moves to ban NSW Police from parade

The long-vexed relationship with the force reached a new low last year. Now Mardi Gras members will vote on whether to exclude officers from the 2025 parade.

  • Max Maddison
A supporter at the annual Trans Day of Visibility in New York last year. Some trans activists are questioning the tactics used to further their cause.

‘We looked unreasonable’: Losing credibility, trans activists employ new tactics

After the “painful” election of Donald Trump, some in the movement question the effectiveness of an all-or-nothing approach.

  • Jeremy Peters
A render of the approved redevelopment of the former T2 building at Taylor Square.

It was a bank, a nightclub and a failed bike hub. Now this Oxford Street icon has a new fate

A Taylor Square landmark that has sat dormant for more than 15 years is set for a new lease on life after plans were approved to add three storeys and a rooftop, and transform the basement into a live music venue.

  • Michael Koziol
Senator Ralph Babet posted racial and homophobic slurs on social media platform X.

United Australia senator Ralph Babet posts racist, homophobic slurs

Greens leader Adam Bandt condemned Babet’s posts, arguing that President-elect Donald Trump’s victory had emboldened the hard right.

  • Olivia Ireland

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