With Mardi Gras only one week away, last weekend there were two gay bashings in Sydney's inner city in on night. One of them was bashed twice, the second time whilst trying to get home from the first assault.
I would have to ask, is this part of the increasingly hysterical anti-gay Lieberal rhetoric in recent times? The police are concerned as two assaults like that in one night were "uncommon".
His boyfriend, Darren Hedderman, 27, said the couple, from Ireland, had invited friends over to their apartment on Saturday night, after which his boyfriend went outside to make sure their guests had got in a taxi safely.
Mr Hedderman said he went to bed, expecting Mr Souster to follow him in shortly, but he woke up an hour-and-a-half later to Mr Souster screaming for help. Mr Souster then told him what had happened.
"He walked up McEvoy Street a little bit and couldn't see them [their guests], so he turned around," Mr Hedderman said.
"As he turned around, somebody hit him, and the next thing he remembers is waking up in Waterloo Oval being kicked in the head.
"He doesn't know how he got to the oval. We don't know whether he was dragged there or whether he ran, he doesn't remember."
That attack about 1am on Saturday was brutal enough - but he then was assaulted by a "Good Samaritan-turned-bad", Mr Hedderman said.
"They finally stopped kicking him in the oval and [Mr Souster] started to come home. He met a guy on the street and asked him for help, and the guy said 'Yeah, no problem, are you OK? What happened?" Mr Hedderman said.
"So the guy walked him all the way back to our apartment block."
At the apartment block, the man asked Mr Souster if he wanted him to call his girlfriend to take him upstairs. Mr Souster replied that his boyfriend was in their apartment, and he could go to him. "
And he said 'Oh you have a boyfriend, you're a queer', and he hit him in the face," Mr Hedderman said. Sydney Morning Herald
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