I'm sorry FOXY you're wrong! I'm not talking about crimes occurring in the homes and pubs as you claim. There was a wave of crimes 'against the person', directly attributed to the (public) behaviour of homosexual men vs. the Anti-Poofter Gangs, especially in the environs of Greater Sydney and as far out as the Show Ground, Moore Park and Centennial Park. Together with many of the inner city parks including that of Wynyard and Hyde Parks. And that didn't exclude the infamous 'Wall' either opposite to St Vincent's Hospital.

This 'behaviour' or to be more precise 'gathering' by these homosexual men, at a particular Park's Toilet Block, would set of a chain reaction, where the local hoodlums would get wind of it, and they themselves would turn up, and would thoroughly delight in punching the 'bejesus' out of these gays. It was the coppers who had to protect the losing side (generally the Gays) and clean up the mess. Those days, locations were all by word of mouth, no mobile phones. I've seen as many as 15 or 17 or so, men well dressed, all loitering around a Park Toilet Block, organising ,who pair's off with who, and uses the facilities first. Occasionally there'd be a blue erupt between one of their own, usually over money. The real fireworks occurred when the Poofter Gangs arrived on the scene. I'll admit, some Gays could hold their hands up, and I say good on 'em.

.."directly attributed to homosexual men.."? You feel that attacks on dark skin people is due to dark skin? Homos gathering at night in a park causes gang men to travel there to start punching? A quick google and..

"On April 27, 2015, Christine Foster, a Liberal Party councillor and the sister of the then Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, moved a motion at the Sydney City Council calling for a formal apology to the original gay and lesbian 1978 Mardi Gras marchers.
It was there in Darlinghurst Road that we faced the most brutal onslaught of the whole night. The police, arriving in numbers, took advantage of the semi darkness of the night, unleashing a reckless and ugly attack on the marchers.
They acted as if they had a licence to inflict as much injury as they could
Some 53 men and women were arrested, all had their names and occupations subsequently published in The Sydney Morning Herald. Many lost their jobs or housing as a result.
Gail Hewison, one of the women detained, described to me the whole experience of being locked-up without charge as one of shock and trauma. She had all her possessions taken away from her including her glasses. She told me she could hear the sounds of a man being horribly beaten in another cell.
The motion at Sydney Town Hall earlier in 2015, calling for an official apology to the 78ers for the violence of that June night in 1978, was strongly supported by Deputy Lord Mayor Robyn Kemmis, ."
The Conversation 2016.

Dear O Sung Wu,

I'm glad that you recognise what went on in Sydney.
We're all familiar with the swathe of murders that
rocked the LGBT Community in Sydney and the Central
Coast in the past decades when around 88 gay men were
beaten to their deaths. Of 88 cases, according to various
newspapers including the SMH, 30 still remain unsolved.

It is an injustice of epic proportions.

Here is just one link on the subject:

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/up-to-80-men-murdered-30-cases-unsolved-20130721-2qda7.html

I don't need any further reminders of those times thank you FOXY - as usual the Media know much more of what occurred then the police - will all this latest marriage equality bring to a halt all this gay hatred and the occasional bashings? I wonder, but what would I know, and neither would FOXY! I find it awfully hard sometimes to defend your 'Left leaning' proclivities, which are so plainly obvious, with your constant 'rolling out' of some quotation from here or from there. You are much more convincing when you articulate your opinions from the heart, instead of strengthening your position, from some citation or other.

o sung wu,

You have seen the light.

O sung wu
Foxy wrote :"Violence in the streets, in homes, in pubs, and
elsewhere, is not assigned to any particular group. It has existed in
our society in the past, and unfortunately still exists today."

That's a bland and obviously reasonable observation of fact. You tell her not to say it if you didn't say it and call her out as "leftie".
What sort of cop were you with that attitude , mister.