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Perth Anti 17c��IA+ Flyer Investigation Leads To Charges After Two Year Campaign

Michael James — Sun, 10 May 2026 05:12:08 +0000

The Perth 17c��IA+ community has seen a major development in a long running campaign of hateful flyer distribution, with WA Police charging a man following an extensive investigation. The case ...

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New 17c��+ Hate Crime Legislation Passes NSW Legislative Assembly

Lydia Jupp — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:17:47 +0000

New South Wales’ new hate crime legislation passed the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday night, highlighting the importance of 17c��+ community safety across the state. Introduced to Parliament mid-March, the laws ...

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Scott White Declines Parole Offer For Alleged Gay Hate Crime Death

Michael James — Sat, 02 May 2026 02:27:23 +0000

Convicted killer Scott White has rejected his parole options as he reaches the end of his sentence in the controversial Scott Johnson case, choosing to remain behind bars despite being ...

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EXPLAINER: Lesbian Action Group Try Third Legal Attempt To Ban Trans Women From Events

Patrick Lenton — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:23:56 +0000

A trans exclusionary group called the Lesbian Action Group (LAG) has been in court this week, appealing a decision by the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) that ruled the group ...

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Melbourne Man Targeted With Online Hate After Sharing Homophobic Experience

Lydia Jupp — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 02:28:46 +0000

A newsreader for queer community radio station, JOY FM, has spoken out after a homophobic incident in Melbourne last week left him shaken. Brad Cresswell-Lee was in JJ Holland Park ...

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Irish Postman Fired After Kicking Over Pride Garden Gnome

Lydia Jupp — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 03:34:26 +0000

A postman in east Belfast has been fired after footage showed him kicking over a rainbow-coloured garden gnome. Ring Doorbell footage from the afternoon of Saturday December 6 show the ...

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Police Release Photos Of People Suspected Of Homophobic Laird Vandalism

Lydia Jupp — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:43:30 +0000

Victoria Police have released images of two men wanted in relation to a spate of homophobic and antisemitic vandalism across two 17c��IA+ venues in Melbourne earlier this year, including at ...

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Community Condemns Attack On Transgender Person On The Gold Coast

Michael James — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 01:43:38 +0000

Community leaders in Queensland have responded to the shocking news that a transgender person was attacked on the Gold Coast this weekend. Police have released information relating to the attack ...

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Global Research Sounds Alarm on 17c��IA+ Safety

Michael James — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 01:51:13 +0000

A major new global report has warned that 17c��IA+ safety is at risk as people are facing an intensifying wave of violence, hate and censorship, despite decades of progress toward ...

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Victoria to Explore Reparations for 17c��+ Hate Crimes in Landmark Study

Chloe Sargeant — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 05:31:05 +0000

Victoria is taking its first formal steps toward acknowledging the state’s history of anti-17c��IA+ violence and hate crimes, with a new RMIT University research project set to examine how justice ...

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Tasmanian Lower House Passes Expansions To Hate Crime Laws

Lydia Jupp — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 02:08:40 +0000

The Tasmanian government is expanding its exisiting hate crime laws, allowing judges to hand down stronger penalties for prejudice and hate-motivated crimes. The nation-leading provisions were unanimously passed in the ...

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Switchboard Victoria Launches Helpline For Victims Of Dating App Attacks

Michael James — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 01:53:49 +0000

In response to the alarming rise in attacks on members of the 17c��IA+ community on dating apps Switchboard Victoria have established a new helpline. The specific helpline will provide confidential ...

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Drag Race UK’s Pixie Polite Hospitalised After ‘Homophobic’ Attack

Lydia Jupp — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 02:48:11 +0000

Pixie Polite, best known for appearing on season four of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, has spoken out after she was attacked and hospitalised in what police are treating as a hate ...

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Gay Man “Needed To Learn His Lesson” Says Man Sentenced For Grindr Attack

Lydia Jupp — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 06:31:01 +0000

A 20-year-old has pleaded guilty to bashing and robbing a man he lured through Grindr in a “vigilante” attack in Queensland last year. On Monday, Blake Dean Nightingall pleaded guilty ...

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Shooting Near Stonewall Inn On Final Day Of Pride Not Being Treated As A Hate Crime

Lydia Jupp — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 02:28:03 +0000

Two teenagers have been shot and another wounded near the historic Stonewall Inn in New York City, just as Pride celebrations were wrapping up on Sunday. According to eyewitnesses and ...

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Five Perth Teenagers Sentenced Over Homophobic Grindr Attacks

Michael James — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 02:38:59 +0000

Five teenage boys have been sentenced in Perth Children’s Court following a series of horrifying attacks in which gay and bisexual men were lured via a fake Grindr profile, ambushed, ...

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More Attacks: Fears Melbourne Gay Men Are Not Reporting Violent Homophobia

David Allen — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 01:34:18 +0000

Warning: This article contains descriptions of homophobia and graphic violence and may be triggering from some readers. Advocates fear homophobic attacks are going unreported in Melbourne and are warning people ...

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Police Deny Murder of Gay Actor Jonathan Joss Was Hate Crime

Lydia Jupp — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 04:16:32 +0000

Gay, Indigenous actor Jonathan Joss was shot dead outside his Texas house on June 1, but police aren’t treating the murder as a hate crime. Joss was most well known ...

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Two Men Jailed For Using Grindr In Robberies Across Sydney

Lydia Jupp — Wed, 21 May 2025 03:58:44 +0000

Two Sydney men have been sentenced to more than six years for the robberies of five men they arranged to meet through gay dating app, Grindr. Andrew James Tanswell, 41, ...

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Inner West Man Charged After Homophobic Graffiti Spree

Lydia Jupp — Mon, 19 May 2025 02:16:53 +0000

A man has been arrested and charged with 53 graffiti offences after weeks of homophobic and racist vandalism across the inner west. 21-year-old Felix Kiera was arrested and taken to ...

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hate crime Archives - 17c�������

Perth Anti 17c�������IA+ Flyer Investigation Leads To Charges After Two Year Campaign

New 17c�������+ Hate Crime Legislation Passes NSW Legislative Assembly