If you’re going to keep making these sorts of bizarre statements about issues you clearly know nothing about, I think most people would appreciate it if you stopped calling yourself a gay activist.

I was implying that the number of gay men beaten up in homophobic assaults each month in this state is similar to the number of people attacked during the Cronulla riots, yet while that series of events resulted in a national debate about race and racism, attacks on us have not resulted in a similar conversation about homophobia and sexuality occurring- even at a state level. That is all.

I agree that many of the perpetrators of homophobic assaults around Oxford Street are from middle eastern backgrounds, though I’m sure some of them are from Christian families as well as Muslims, and working class Australians from European backgrounds still make up a large proportion of attackers. Sometimes it’s Pacific Islanders, and occasionally it’s Indigenous Australians.

On the other hand we almost never hear about homophobic attacks being perpetrated by Asian Australians from traditionally Buddhist countries or by Indians from Hindu or Sikh backgrounds.

What a ludicrous statement. You are implying that the perpetrators are white bogans from the Shire, whereas I’ve witnessed more hostility towards gays from Lebanese Muslims.

Also, the Chinese can defend their turf because they have the cajones to stand up and look after their community, whereas the ponces in Australia’s so-called “gay capital” just run away squealing clutching their handbags.