A documentary detailing efforts to remove the word 'nigger' from a Toowoomba stadium sign, E.S. Nigger Brown stand, in southern Queensland. The sign was erected in 1960 to honour Toowoomba's first rugby league international Edward Stanley Brown.
'Nigger Lovers documents Stephen Hagan’s fight for the sign to be taken down. He discovered the sign in the late 1990s when he took his family to a rugby league game. Being the Aboriginal activist he is he decided to take action.'
'Stephen Hagan’s fight makes an interesting story. In 1999 the Toowoomba Sportsground Trust politely declined his request to take the sign down. In 2002 the High Court ruled that the sign could stay. In 2003 the United Nations found that the offensive name should be changed, however, Australian authorities simply ignored the ruling.'
'Nigger Lovers is not only a story of enormous strength, of determination and persistence, it’s also a story of a man being challenged to his limits, receiving death threats and bringing his family close to bankruptcy.' (Source: Creativespirits website)
