LGBTIQ+
MEDIA RELEASE
3 June 2026
The Minns Labor Government’s reforms strengthening protections for LGBTQIA+ people have passed NSW Parliament, despite multiple attempts by the Opposition and Greens to delay the laws.
LGBTIQ+
MEDIA RELEASE
2 June 2026
Stronger laws to protect the LGBTQIA+ community from hate crimes are being held hostage by the Opposition and Greens who have rejected multiple attempts to pass these laws including a bid to fast track the reforms.
LGBTIQ+
Today I speak about equality—hard won, deeply felt and still unfinished.
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.
LGBTIQ+
PRIVATE MEMBERS STATEMENT
I celebrate the forty-eighth Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and reaffirm the Labor Government's unwavering support for that extraordinary festival.
LGBTIQ+
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.
LGBTIQ+
Heaps Gay is coming back to Marrickville for its twelfth birthday.
LGBTIQ+
I had the immense joy of marching in the 2025 Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras with Rainbow Families.
LGBTIQ+
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.
LGBTIQ+
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.