Salvaging what's left after the masses have had their feed
New Mardi Gras wants public opinion on what the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade should be about. After the debacle earlier this year around corporatisation and exclusion of queer activists, should we bother to take part in the consultation? Katrina Fox believes so.
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) has released a statement on its website urging the ‘de-pathologisation of gender variance’ worldwide, writes Tracie O’Keefe.
The US government’s military policy concerning queer soldiers piles one prejudice on top of another by disproportionately affecting black gay men and lesbians, write Josh Rosenthal and Christopher Contreras.
Queer Muslims face institutional oppression in a variety of forms. Institutional religion and science in the homelands tends to pathologise them, the law to criminalise them, the media may see them as a curiosity or a monstrosity, and mainstream society ostracises them. Islam and Homosexuality is a two-volume collection espousing the scholarship of 20 researchers from around the world. Editor Dr Samar Habib introduces the work for The Scavenger.
Situational heterosexuality – the term used to describe the experience of gay and lesbian people in heterosexual partnerships – is the most misunderstood concept in the ‘ex-gay’ and Christian worlds, writes Anthony Venn-Brown.
Demand ensues for open investigation into an Aboriginal trans death in custody in Sydney, writes Rachel Evans.
Trans people are increasingly part of the lesbian/queer community as our relationships and families expand. Katrina Fox talks to couples in which one partner is trans about their love and the special bonds they’ve forged, often as a result of facing adversity together.
Fitting into the mainstream establishment is not on trans queer activist and writer Mattilda Sycamore Bernstein’s agenda, and she is quite willing to forgo the ‘straight privilege’ that many in the queer community still seek. She spoke with Cath Davies.
A Stealing Beauty panel discussion in London earlier this year explored how queer culture plunders dominant straight culture and uses it to create something new and vibrant. Film-maker and panelist Campbell Ex offers her observations.
Conor Montgomery has lived as a man for the past two and half years, but the Australian government is refusing to change his birth certificate unless he has life-threatening surgery. This is his story of liberation and fight for social justice.
1st International Sex and/or Gender Diversity Day: 26 April
The first International Sex and/or Gender Diversity Day has been declared 26 April and will be an awareness day and celebration of the existence or sex and/or gender diverse people, writes Tracie O’Keefe.
18 March: Norrie, the Australian, who last week came to global attention as the world’s first sexless person when issued with identity documents stating ‘sex not specified’ has been threatened by the NSW Government with having the document revoked, writes Katrina Fox.
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GLBISGDQ = Gay, lesbian, bisexual, intersex, sex and/or gender diverse, queer. ISGD incorporates ALL sex and/or gender diversity including transsexual, transgender, intersex, transsexed, androgynous, neuter and every other descriptor.
