It was an apology Alan Raabe waited nearly 30 years to hear. Or, as it turned out, to read.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk stood in the Queensland Parliament on Thursday afternoon to apologise to the 548 victims of the state's draconian anti-homosexual laws.

Alan Raabe outside Parliament House in Brisbane, where Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk delivered an apology to him and other victims of Queensland's anti-gay laws. Credit:Robert Shakespeare

As one of those victims, who has lived with a criminal conviction since 1988, Mr Raabe said a dark cloud that had followed him for half his life had cleared.

"It feels amazing; I'm pretty emotional," he said.