hate crime Archives - Star Observer /tag/hate-crime Setting Australia鈥檚 LGBTI agenda since 1979 Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:23:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /wp-content/uploads/2023/02/starobs.png hate crime Archives - Star Observer /tag/hate-crime 32 32 EXPLAINER: Lesbian Action Group Try Third Legal Attempt To Ban Trans Women From Events /news/lesbian-action-group-explainer/241012 Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:23:56 +0000 /?p=241012 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 /news/melbourne-man-targeted-with-online-hate-after-sharing-homophobic-experience/240390 /news/melbourne-man-targeted-with-online-hate-after-sharing-homophobic-experience/240390#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2026 02:28:46 +0000 /?p=240390 A newsreader for queer community radio station, JOY FM, has spoken out after a homophobic incident聽 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 /news/irish-postman-fired-after-kicking-over-pride-garden-gnome/240074 Fri, 12 Dec 2025 03:34:26 +0000 /?p=240074 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 /news/police-release-photos-of-people-suspected-of-homophobic-laird-vandalism/239557 /news/police-release-photos-of-people-suspected-of-homophobic-laird-vandalism/239557#comments Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:43:30 +0000 /?p=239557 Victoria Police have released images of two men wanted in relation to a spate of homophobic and antisemitic vandalism across two LGBTQIA+ venues in Melbourne earlier this year, including at ...

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Community Condemns Attack On Transgender Person On The Gold Coast /news/community-condemns-attack-on-transgender-person-on-the-gold-coast/239547 Tue, 04 Nov 2025 01:43:38 +0000 /?p=239547 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 LGBTQIA+ Safety聽 /news/global-research-sounds-alarm-on-lgbtqia-safety/239409 Thu, 23 Oct 2025 01:51:13 +0000 /?p=239409 A major new global report has warned that LGBTQIA+ 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 LGBTQ+ Hate Crimes in Landmark Study /news/victoria-to-explore-reparations-for-lgbtq-hate-crimes-in-landmark-study/239177 Tue, 14 Oct 2025 05:31:05 +0000 /?p=239177 Victoria is taking its first formal steps toward acknowledging the state鈥檚 history of anti-LGBTQIA+ 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 /news/tasmanian-lower-house-passes-expansions-to-hate-crime-laws/238626 Fri, 12 Sep 2025 02:08:40 +0000 /?p=238626 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 /news/switchboard-victoria-launches-helpline-for-victims-of-dating-app-attacks/238207 Sat, 23 Aug 2025 01:53:49 +0000 /?p=238207 In response to the alarming rise in attacks on members of the LGBTQIA+ 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 /news/drag-race-uks-pixie-polite-hospitalised-after-homophobic-attack/237839 Wed, 30 Jul 2025 02:48:11 +0000 /?p=237839 Pixie Polite, best known for appearing on season four of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK,聽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 /news/gay-man-needed-to-learn-his-lesson-says-man-sentenced-for-grindr-attack/237834 Tue, 29 Jul 2025 06:31:01 +0000 /?p=237834 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 /news/shooting-near-stonewall-inn-on-final-day-of-pride-not-being-treated-as-a-hate-crime/237452 Wed, 02 Jul 2025 02:28:03 +0000 /?p=237452 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 /news/five-perth-teenagers-sentenced-over-homophobic-grindr-attacks/237253 Thu, 19 Jun 2025 02:38:59 +0000 /?p=237253 Five teenage boys have been sentenced in Perth Children鈥檚 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 /news/more-attacks-fears-melbourne-gay-men-are-not-reporting-violent-homophobia/237247 Thu, 19 Jun 2025 01:34:18 +0000 /?p=237247 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 /news/police-deny-murder-of-gay-actor-jonathan-joss-was-hate-crime/237035 Wed, 04 Jun 2025 04:16:32 +0000 /?p=237035 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 /news/two-men-jailed-for-using-grindr-in-robberies-across-sydney/236829 Wed, 21 May 2025 03:58:44 +0000 /?p=236829 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 /news/inner-west-man-charged-after-homophobic-graffiti-spree/236806 Mon, 19 May 2025 02:16:53 +0000 /?p=236806 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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New Review of NSW Hate Crime Laws Will Include Reviewing LGBTQIA+ Protections /news/new-review-of-nsw-hate-crime-laws-will-include-reviewing-lgbtqia-protections/236651 Thu, 08 May 2025 04:08:02 +0000 /?p=236651 A new six-month review of New South Wales’ hate crime laws and protections for marginalised groups has been confirmed. Attorney General Michael Daley has appointed former NSW Supreme Court Justice, ...

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Man Convicted Over Unreported Sydney Gay Hate Crime /news/man-convicted-over-unreported-sydney-gay-hate-crime/235652 Sat, 01 Mar 2025 02:33:02 +0000 /?p=235652 A Sydney many has been convicted over a gay hate crime that took place in November last year near Oxford St. The incident that took place in Darlinghurst had previously ...

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Transgender Man Sam Nordquist Tortured and Murdered In US /news/transgender-man-sam-nordquist-tortured-and-murdered-in-us/235504 Wed, 19 Feb 2025 05:44:05 +0000 /?p=235504 Five people have been arrested and charged over the death of 24-year-old Sam Nordquist, a transgender man from Minnesota. Police from upstate New York allege that Nordquist had been repeatedly ...

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