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San Francisco is sometimes cited as the LGBTI-friendly role model Sydney might aspire to be. Yes, and no. In common with the rest of the USA, intersex people seem to have been forgotten about altogether and it is disappointing to note that intersex exclusion and thus LGBT-only is the norm. However, LGBTI refugee organization ORAM International is very much intersex inclusive, and we met up with them as well as OII International Chairperson Hida Viloria during an all-too-short visit to the city by the bay. There is much to learn from San Francisco's acceptance of those born different but something to teach them about accepting and actively including those of us who are born just a little more biologically different.

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OII Australia members were inside the ALP National Conference at Darling Harbour and supported the marriage equality rally outside the conference venue on Saturday December 3 2011. Intersex Australians lost the right to marriage when the Howard Liberal federal government amended the Marriage Act 1961, changing the definition of marriages as between two people into between a man and a woman and no others.

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Although we did not contribute a speech on the lack of marriage equality for intersex Australians this time, our media and communications officer attended the rally and made photographs.

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OII Australia wishes to thank the organizers of Camp Betty for inviting us to present an Intersex 101. Our speakers were Gina Wilson and Morgan Carpenter, and other OII Australia members, intersex and non-intersex friends of OII Australia were in the audience.

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Rally for Marriage Equality held at Sydney Town Hall on Saturday 27th November 2010. OII Australia’s Gina Wilson made a speech about marriage equality, explaining that neither opposite sex marriage nor same sex marriage include intersex people.

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Papua New Guinea identity, businessman and philanthropist Sir Brian Bell CSM, KBE, C.St J. was buried at 9 Mile cemetery. Three thousand people including family from PNG and Australia attended the church service and many more went to the burial. Sir Brian supported the work of OII Australia through one of his Australian nieces. Sir Brian was popularly known as Mister B.

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The rally was held at Sydney Town Hall and participants marched through the surrounding streets before returning to the town hall for further speeches including one from OII Australia's president Gina Wilson. The speech was read by CAAH's Rachel Evans in Gina's absence.

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The Australian Labor Party National Conference in Darling Harbour, Sydney, held in July to August 2009. Labor formally recognized that intersex exists by using the acronym LGBTI in the national platform that resulted from conferences proceedings. The platform states that LGBTI people face many health problems in Australia. We also lack equality, human rights and anti-discrimination protection. Intersex people are far worse off than any others in LGBTI.

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Photographic illustrations created to illustrate Op/Ed articles and other posts.

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Portraits of people who support the work of OII Australia in many and various ways.

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