LGBTIQ+

Some of the most important community work happens not in boardrooms or council chambers, but around a table covered in fabric scraps, sequins and half-finished projects — and that is exactly where Ryder Spankie has been showing up, month after month.

PRIVATE MEMBERS STATEMENT

BY JO HAYLEN

I celebrate the forty-eighth Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and reaffirm the Labor Government's unwavering support for that extraordinary festival. 

MEDIA RELEASE

5 February 2026

The Minns Labor Government has rejected calls from the Liberal Opposition to defund the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade, and called on the NSW Opposition to reverse their position.

Heaps Gay is coming back to Marrickville for its twelfth birthday.

I had the immense joy of marching in the 2025 Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras with Rainbow Families.

I acknowledge that the Equality Legislation Amendment Bill (LGBTIQA+) Bill 2023 evokes strong views in the community and thank all the Summer Hill constituents who have written to me to express their views, either in support of or in opposition to the bill. 

Media Release

NSW Government supports all recommendations of Special Commission into historical LGBTIQ+ hate crimes

Thursday, 19 September 2024

Content Warning: 

This media release contains discussion of discrimination, violence and death. 

The NSW Government is today releasing its formal response to the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry into Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ) Hate Crimes.

The NSW Government will today introduce a bill to parliament to ban LGBTQ+ conversion practices, fulfilling a key election commitment.

I congratulate ACON on the recent 16th Honour Awards.

On Sunday 7 May, Rainbow Families NSW hosted its annual Family Pride Day at Marrickville Town Hall, marking the local celebration of International Family Equality Day, a world-wide celebration of LGBTIQA+ parenting.