LGBTI

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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GNN reports on OII Chairperson Hida Viloria’s appeal to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton not to exclude intersex people from global human rights initiatives

30 December 2011

IN one of the least pleasant surprises of 2011 for intersex people, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left intersex – 4% of the global population and some of the most brutally oppressed of all – out of her remarks to the United Nations in Geneva on the topic of worldwide LGBT human rights and [...]

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A quick trip to San Francisco: intersex activism can be hard work and a little play

28 December 2011

IT is not all work and no play at OII Australia – sometimes we manage to combine both. That was certainly the case in November when one of our members tagged along with her partner on an all-too-brief business trip to San Francisco.  While there our member met the good folks at LGBTI refugee resettlement [...]

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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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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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Intersex inclusion by default continues at the United Nation High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)

10 October 2011

WE at OII Australia continue to be impressed at the consistency with which the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) includes intersex in its work, publications and public statements, since we were asked to comment upon the issue of intersex inclusion several months ago. We encourage other agencies to follow the UNHCR’s example. This latest publication [...]

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Video: Intersex documentary “Intersexion (Is He Or Isn’t She?)”

18 July 2011

LONG-AWAITED documentary about the experiences of a number of intersex people around the world, Intersexion (Is He Or Isn’t She?), is now available online at YouTube.com and we have embedded the videos in this news item for your convenience. The film was made for New Zealand television broadcaster TV One by Grant Lahood with the [...]

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GALE releases flawed LGBT education toolkit, needs to consult with intersex people & organizations

22 May 2011

OII Australia welcomes the release of version 1.0 of its schools educational toolkit by the Global Alliance for LGBT Education (GALE) and hopes that future editions will be LGBTI inclusive. External link: GALE – lgbteducation.info

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ILGA releases report on state-sponsored homophobia affecting LGBT

22 May 2011

OII Australia welcomes the release of the The International Lesbian, Gay, Trans, Bisexual and Intersex Association’s (ILGA) 2011 report State-Sponsored Homophobia and looks forward to the time when a future edition of this report reports on the status of intersex people. Page 4, From the Co-Secretaries General, states: The day is not far, when homophobia [...]

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NSW Police Force publishes new policy on sexuality and gender diversity

7 May 2011

THE NSW Police Force has released its third key public document on its LGBTI policy – Policy on sexuality and gender diversity, 2011-2014. Importantly, the policy also includes a commitment to work with intersex people “to prevent and reduce crime and the fear of crime”. The web page containing the downloadable PDF of the policy [...]

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NSW Police launches Transgender Anti-Violence Project

7 May 2011

THE NSW Police Force launched the Transgender Anti-Violence Project on Thursday 5th May 2011. NSW Police Force Corporate Spokesperson on Sexuality and Gender Diversity – working with the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Communities, Chief Superintendent Donna Adney, said “One of the roles of a police officer is to build trust and confidence within [...]

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