Conferences & Events

Intersex intersectionalities with LGBTI

5 February 2012

MORGAN, OII Australia board member, wrote and presented this paper at the After ‘Homosexual’ conference in Melbourne on 4 February 2012. The conference marked the fortieth anniversary of Dennis Altman’s book Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation. The 10-minute presentation was delivered as part of a curated panel on intersectionalities. Introduction I’d like to pay my respects [...]

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After “Homosexual”: The Legacies of Gay Liberation

28 January 2012

AN international conference hosted and funded by the Gender, Sexuality and Diversity program at La Trobe University in conjunction with the Australian Lesbian & Gay Archives, Midsumma, Victoria University and Australian Centre for the Moving Image is being held in Melbourne on 3rd and 4th February. In recognition of the fortieth anniversary of the publication [...]

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Photographs from Marriage Equality Rally at ALP National Conference, Sydney, 3rd December 2011

22 December 2011

OII Australia members were inside the ALP National Conference at Darling Harbour and were supporting the marriage equality rally outside the conference venue on Saturday December 3 2011. Intersex Australians lost the clear right to marriage when the Howard Liberal federal government amended the Marriage Act 1961, changing the definition of marriage as between two [...]

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An Australian intersex world first: intersex inclusion throughout Labor federal governing party policy platform reforms

19 December 2011

OII Australia ally Rainbow Labor has welcomed changes in the Australian Labor Party policy platform that further support the LGBTI community and especially intersex people. As a result, Australia leads internationally in being intersex-inclusive.  Summary of changes to the ALP platform: Commitment under Labor Values to health care and specific health care needs of GLBTI Australians (140A) [...]

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Speech on marriage equality by Senator John Faulkner at 46th ALP National Conference 2011, Darling Harbour, 3 December 2011

7 December 2011

OII Australia applauds Labor Senator John Faulkner for his speech and its resounding words about human rights, made on Saturday 3rd December during Labor’s National Conference. Human rights can never be at the mercy of individual opinions or individual prejudices. They are not privileges to be extended to one person and denied to another according [...]

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OII Australia calls on all intersex people who can to take part in the marriage equality rally, 12 noon, Saturday 3rd December, Hyde Park, Sydney

30 November 2011

WE urge all intersex Australians who can be in Sydney this coming Saturday December 3 to rally at Hyde Park and march on the Australian Labor Party’s (ALP) national conference at Darling Harbour in support of the right of all Australians to marry. Under the amendments made to the Marriage Act 1961 by John Howard’s [...]

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OII Australia’s Gina Wilson will present on workplace inclusion at LGBT Pride in Diversity conference in Sydney today

29 November 2011

OII Australia president Gina Wilson will present an Intersex 101 titled Understanding Intersex at Pride in Diversity’s (PiD) Pride in Practice LGBT Workplace Conference at the KPMG offices in Sydney today. Gina’s presentation occurs during the Understanding our Transgender and Intersex Communities – Interactive Panel & Q&A session at 3:45pm this afternoon. Intersex is not [...]

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Come celebrate Intersex Day of Remembrance at Court House Hotel in Newtown, Sydney, today at 6pm, Tuesday November 8th 2011

8 November 2011

MEMBERS of OII Australia and our family, friends and supporters are gathering at the Court House Hotel in the inner city Sydney suburb of Newtown this evening – November 8th, Intersex Day of Remembrance and the anniversary of Adélaïde Herculine Barbin’s birthday - at 6pm. Come join us! The Court House is located at 202 Australia Street, [...]

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Intersex Day of Remembrance tomorrow, Tuesday 8 November

7 November 2011

THE 8th November is Intersex Day of Remembrance and Herculine Barbin’s birthday. OII Australia and Organisation Intersex International would like to invite others to join us each year by commemorating November 8 as Intersex Day of Remembrance. All human rights organizations, feminist allies, academics and gender specialists, as well as other groups and individuals interested [...]

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Wednesday 26 October, the 15th Intersex Awareness Day

26 October 2011

Today, Wednesday 26th of October, marks the 15th Intersex Awareness Day THE first Intersex Awareness Day (IAD) came about when the American intersex group named Hermaphrodites with Attitude (HWA) teamed up with American trans group Trans Menace to picket an American Association of Paediatrics (AAP) conference in Boston on 26th October 1996. Those picketing this [...]

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Justice Michael Kirby continues the fight against homophobia in the Commonwealth

25 October 2011

RETIRED Australian High Court Justice Michael Kirby has always been intersex-inclusive as long as we have known him, and it is wonderful to see he is once again being active in his current project, working on eradicating homophobia from the Commonwealth. Justice Kirby, who came out in 1999, will address a special conference on gay, [...]

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Rally for marriage equality for all including intersex Australians in Sydney on Saturday 3 December at 12 noon in Hyde Park

28 September 2011
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