Wear It Purple Day is celebrating 15 years of action and support for young LGBTIQA+ people.

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This partnership between Thorne Harbour Health and SHINE SA came about in 2015 after the AIDS Council of South Australia (ACSA) closed a few years prior.

Jack spoke with two people who were instrumental in its formation and ongoing operation:

• Colin Batrouney, Director of Health Promotion and Community Engagement at Thorne Harbour Health
• Holley Skene, Chief Executive Officer of SHINE SA

They discuss how SAMESH was designed to address gaps in sexual health education for our diverse communities in SA in 2015, some of the significant health promotion campaigns, and the lessons to come from overseeing this work over the past ten years.

Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health and wellbeing at joy.org.au/wellwellwell.

If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au

Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria and South Australia at thorneharbour.org and samesh.org.au.

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Lesbian Visibility Week culminates with Lesbian Visibility Day, which is held on April 26.

Scope and Sphere are peer workshops at Thorne Harbour Health for lesbian, bi, queer and sexually-diverse women (including trans participants)

Find out more about Women’s Health at Thorne Harbour at thorneharbour.org/services/womens-health

Check out Thorne Harbour Health and ACON’s joint LGBTIQ+ Women’s Health Conference 

Thorne Harbour Health offers  services for LGBTIQ+ women who are looking for affordable counselling in a safe environment where they can be open about their gender, sex, sexuality and a whole range of issues impacting them.

Drink Limits is a free eight week therapeutic group looking at alcohol and anxiety for lesbian, bisexual and queer women (cis and trans) and anyone female identifying.

ReThink The Drink is a project that seeks to inspire alcohol culture change among LGBTIQ women

Additionally, mark your calendars for an exciting event! Thorne Harbour Health presents the Countdown to Eurovision Trivia Night on Friday, May 3rd, at the Collingwood Town Hall. Kick off the Eurovision 2024 festivities with us!

For more information and to reserve your table, visit thorneharbour.org/events.

Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing.

If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au

Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at Thorne Harbour Health and in South Australia at SAMESH.

* This episode originally aired Thursday, April 18 2024 on JOY *

This episode was recorded on the lands of the Yalukut Weelam clan of the Boon Wurrung peoples. We pay our respects to their elders, past, present and emerging, and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

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Coordinators of Gay Asian Proud (GAP) James & Amirul join Jessie on air to discuss some of their personal experiences around moving to Australia. They share with us about some of the challenges that came with being an International Student or newly arrived migrant and how they overcame them in order to maintain emotional and mental well-being.

Gay Asian Proud is a social support group for same-sex attracted men, including trans men, from Asian backgrounds.

To find out more about GAP, visit thorneharbour.org/lgbti-health/multicultural-health/

To join their mailing list and to stay up to date with their events and get involved, please email gap@thorneharbour.org

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This week, Cal catches up with some rainbow community members to share their experiences and hurdles in the hotel quarantining system. Later, Michael and Cal sit down with Son Vivienne to discuss the new Pace and Novus workshops for trans men and trans women (respectively) at Thorne Harbour Health. we also look forward to the next event in the Transcripts webinar series.

Missed anything?

Pace and Novus workshops

Thorne Harbour Health’s Transcripts series

Transgender Victoria 

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This week’s special guest is Jesse Oey a VAC volunteer who is the inaugural winner of the Greig Friday Leadership Award for 2015. Jesse has been involved in the Peer Education Program.

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