The inquiry will examine the murders of individuals within the LGBTIQ group between 1970 and 2010 to attempt to learn how and why the particular person was killed.
It's going to additionally examine the style and reason for dying in 88 deaths or suspected deaths thought-about by Strike Power Parrabell.
Honourable Justice John Sackar would be the commissioner.
"These unsolved deaths have left loving households with out solutions for too lengthy," Premier Dominic Perrottet mentioned.
"This Inquiry gives a chance to focus additional scrutiny on suspected hate crimes, and underneath the management of Justice Sackar will work to shut a darkish chapter of our state's historical past that has left an indelible mark."
Justice Sackar could have entry to the findings of earlier inquiries and experiences in addition to the facility to name witnesses, maintain hearings and examine paperwork.
Lawyer Basic Mark Speakman mentioned the inquiry hopefully will carry solutions to the households of those that have suffered a long time of grief.
"A Particular Fee of Inquiry is a robust investigative device to search for solutions for which many have been ready a long time. Nobody ought to must endure the misery of not figuring out what occurred to somebody they love," Mr Speakman mentioned.
NSW's main LGBTQ well being organisation, ACON, has welcomed the inquiry.
"For many years, sexuality and gender various folks in NSW had been subjected to horrific hate crimes," ACON CEO Nicholas Parkhill mentioned.
"This epidemic of violence, together with the sluggish and insufficient responses to many of those crimes, have left a painful legacy for the family members of victims, survivors, their households, and the broader group."
"Important questions stay, they usually can't be allowed to persist unanswered as a result of proof and reminiscence have been misplaced. Lots of the survivors and the perpetrators is probably not with us for for much longer."
Mr Parkhill added the inquiry may even want to deal with the "systemic failures" in investigating these deaths.
"It might want to uncover the place there have been systematic failures and wrongdoing, notably in regulation enforcement methods and justice businesses. This shall be crucial to making sure this doesn't occur once more," he mentioned.