Comments on: Sydney Morning Herald apologises to Mardi Gras 78ers, 38 years after outing many of them

By: Mannie De Saxe

Mannie De Saxe — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 07:23:39 +0000

The SMH has always been homophobic, often refusing to publish letters about gay hate crimes and other gay, lesbian transgender and HIV/AIDS issues. In addition, when we protested at the ongoing use by the SMH and its reporters of the expression AIDS “victims” at a time when there were so many critical issues, the complaints ended up with the Australian Press Council who decided against us.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 06:57:47 +0000

In 1990 the SMH infamously put a demeaning photgraph of the late Paul O’Grady when he became the first open homosexual in any Australian parliament. It was nasty media. I appreciate Darren Goodsir (SMH editor) apology – I look forward to the same from today’s NewsCorp bullies at the Australian, Telegraph etc

By: Paul Hagwoon of Melbourne

Paul Hagwoon of Melbourne — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 04:49:10 +0000

In reply to Dan B. This sounds like we can sue them now! But alas I am getting too old for this now. The Age and the SMH are the papers that are good to read today, they actually campaign for marriage equality today. Remember Both the Australian and the Daily Telegraph newspapers are now that holds homophobic attitudes with headline grabbing garbage, such as "gay at school" and "how to win the religious freedom arguments against gay marriage" and even "Labor are the Nazis". These papers encourage and inflame more neo-Liberal party ideology and dribble! The UK Daily Mail (or as I call them the daily fail) are also encouraging homophobia with headlines "political correctness gone mad" "boy and girl is banned", "husband and wife is banned" and "mum and dad is banned" shit! What is wrong with the word person, parent and or spouse? These words have been around long before we started to genderize everything! It is better to have gender-neutral phases, because it is inclusive and avoids confusion! It is so simple with parent 1 and parent 2 on certificate's or forms and even spouse 1 and spouse 2 - see the picture!

By: Dan B

Dan B — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 03:55:54 +0000

Too little, too late. The SMH long had an anti-gay agenda. They are hiding behind the line ” as was practice at the time” in referring to naming people, their employers and their addresses. It was a tactic to scare people and make them hide and know their real place in society – at the bottom of the lowest shit-pile.

If I was a 78er I would not accept their apology. I would spit at their feet. How about the newspaper actually write an accurate article about the times and how they were part of perpetuating and inflaming the hate of the times.

Some people lost everything as a result of the SMH’S actions.

By: Paul of Forbes NSW

Paul of Forbes NSW — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 03:31:35 +0000

Long Overdue!

By: Wake Up Australia

Wake Up Australia — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 03:27:11 +0000

Welcome to Sydney, Australia – where the Liberal party restrict your freedom more than China and North Korea – by so-called lockout laws “bans on going out partying” (pubs, bars, restaurants, DJs, drinking, etc.), metadata, anti-bikie laws, Israel sealing our passports, terrorism offences – without being charged, ASIO/ADF power raids on aged care facilities, government lying to us, lack of government freedom of information, Russian mafia spying into our mobile phones and email, Centrelink checking your twitter/facebook, lack of freedom of speech, tiny babies being locked-up in Nauru and still a ban on getting married to someone of the same sex! I just must have woken up in North Korea, China or something! Now Australia wants to sell us off to China! Wake up Australia and take a good look at yourselves, we were once a nation of a fair go, mateship and socializing – what have we become Australia? Now it seems everything must go!

By: Paul White

Paul White — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 03:20:44 +0000

Now for the apology from the police!

By: Ken Davis

Ken Davis — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 02:57:49 +0000

SSO yet again makers the mistake of referring to the first Mardi Gras night time parade on 24 June 1978 as a march. It was conceived and started as a festival and mardi gras in Oxford Street, and only became a march after police attacked. As one of the 1978 MG organisers, I feel there is irony about the parliament’s apology and that of SMH, since we were trying to celeberate freedom, and in so many ways our freedoms as gay men transgenders and lesbians, as sex workers, party goers, drug uisers or protesters in public places in Sydney now are so tightly controlled by laws and police, and Mardi Gras it self is hyper-regulated