The Special Commission of Inquiry into LGBTIQ Hate Crimes is well underway and is an essential effort by the State of New South Wales (NSW), Australia, to understand a critically important aspect of hate violence and in particular policing and murders.
Gay historian and academic Gary Wotherspoon told the Special Commission of Inquiry into historical LGBTIQ deaths that he was the victim of gay bashings in Sydney thrice between 1970 and 1997. The general feeling in the community was that NSW police were not interested in investigating gay bashings.
It is now the state s preferred prison for celebrity inmates, but Cooma jail has a dark past as the world s only gay jail, where convicted homosexuals were sent to be cured .