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Dismissed Denied and Demeaned – Religious Discrimination

Michael — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 23:45:30 +0000

LGBTQ+ people and the people who love, support and affirm us are discriminated against by religious educational institutions and faith-based service providers across the country, every day. Ghassan Kassisieh, Legal Director at Equality Australia joins us to discuss the new report Dismissed, Denied and Demeaned: A national report on LGBTQ+ discrimination in faith-based schools and organisations.

We explore religious carveouts that enable faith based institutions to discriminate against LGBTIQ+ people, instances of affirming practices, and how we protect our community from harm.

You can read the full report here: https://equalityaustralia.org.au/resources/dismissed-denied-and-demeaned-a-national-report-on-lgbtq-discrimination-in-faith-based-schools-and-organisations/

Find our more about Equality Australia at equalityaustralia.org.au

Want to hear more from Ghassan?

We last spoke about the Religious Discrimination Bill during it’s formation in 2020, and later for an update in 2021 as well as discussing our priorities for the health and wellbeing of LGBTIQA+ people during the Victorian State Elections

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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Conversion Practices Survival with Nathan Despott

Michael — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 17:20:10 +0000

Nathan Despott is a co-founder of Brave Network, a support and advocacy group for survivors of conversion practices, and SOGICE Survivors, a group that advocates for effective legislation to end conversion practices across Australia.

Nathan shares with us some of the negative health impacts on LGBTIQA+ people caused by conversion practices, and his work in developing ethical guidelines for supporting survivors of harmful conversion practices.

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 Yalukit Willam clan of the peoples. We pay our respects to their elders, past, present and emerging, and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

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Trans Day of Visibility with Tamsin Anspach

Jacinta — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:00:47 +0000

On this Trans Day of Visibility, we speak with trans advocate Tamsin Anspach from the South Australian Rainbow Advocacy Alliance, Youth Affairs Council of South Australia and Thorne Harbour Health Board Member, about her role as a leader within our trans and gender diverse communities, the South Australian government’s proposed human rights act, the future of trans health and the importance of trans visibility.

www.saraa.org.au

thorneharbour.org

www.yacsa.com.au

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.

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Jamie Gardiner – Community Living Legend

Cal — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 00:00:30 +0000

One of the founding members of the Victorian AIDS Action Committee (now Thorne Harbour Health) and longstanding human rights activist, Jamie Gardiner OAM talks with Cal Hawk about his role in getting sex amongst men decriminalised in Victoria in the early 1980s and his involvement in the early response to HIV and AIDS in Australia.

This episode is part of the Community Living Legends series, reflecting on community-driven action and looking to the future as Thorne Harbour Health celebrates its 40th Anniversary in 2023.

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 and South Australia at Thorne Harbour Health.

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Intersex Awareness Day 2022

Jacinta — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 21:00:41 +0000

Jacinta and Cal are joined by Cody Smith from Intersex Human Rights Australia (IHRA) in the lead up to Intersex Awareness Day on 26 October. Cody talks about what it means to be intersex, what the 2017 Darlington Statement is and how it can be supported, intersex people and LGBTIQ+ community health, and proposed changes to Australian legislation to protect the rights of intersex children from non-consensual medical interventions.

To find out more, see:

Intersex Human Rights Australia (IHRA)

Darlington Statement

(i) Am Equal report

Intersex Peer Support Australia

YOUth&I – an intersex youth anthology

If anything discussed in this episode impacted you or was distressing, please access JOY’s support page: joy.org.au/support/

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Victorian Coroner’s Report: Suicide among LGBTIQ people

Jacinta — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 10:00:40 +0000

Cal and Jacinta speak to Victorian LGBTIQ+ Commissioner, Todd Fernando, and Switchboard CEO, Joe Ball, about a new report on LGBTIQ+ suicide. The Coroner’s Court of Victoria released a report on suicide among LGBTIQ+ people on 14 October 2022. Todd and Joe discuss why this report is important, what’s included in it and why, and what work needs to be done to support our communities.

CONTENT WARNING: This episode does discuss suicide among LGBTIQ+ people and bereavement of suicide.

If any of the content in this podcast impacts you or is distressing, please get in touch with QLife or other support services included on JOY’s support page: joy.org.au/support/

QLife
QLife provides anonymous and free LGBTI peer support and referral for people in Australia wanting to talk about sexuality, identity, gender, bodies, feelings or relationships.
Phone: 1800 184 527 – 3pm-midnight every day Web chat: qlife.org.au

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Conversion Practices

Cal — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 11:00:59 +0000

Last month, Victoria’s Change and Suppression (Conversion) Prohibition Bill banning conversion practices seeking to change a person’s sexual orientation and gender identity passed the lower house of the Victorian Parliament. As the bill is soon to be debated in the upper house, four survivors of conversion practices (Nicole, Percy, Aba, and Nathan) join Cal to share their stories and talk about why this bill needs to become law.

At several points during the episode, the Brave Network is mentioned. The Brave Network is a support and advocacy group for LGBTIQ people of faith and allies. You can check them out online at: thebravenetwork.org

You can also check out the SOGICE Statement online: socesurvivors.com.au – written by survivors of Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity Change Efforts, and the LGBTQA+ Conversion movement.

And finally, Nathan mentioned that everyone can look up who their upper house Members of Victorian Parliament are at vec.vic.gov.au

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Religious Discrimination Bill Update

Michael — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 12:01:11 +0000

This week Cal and Michael are joined by two amazing guests to religious discrimination. First, Ghassan Kassisieh Legal Director at Equality Australia dials in to catch us up on the Religious Discrimination Bill, the current anti-discrimination laws already in place, and the impacts on LGBTI communities.

Freedom from discrimination statement for the workplace
Lookup and contact your MP via the Parliament of Australia website

Later, Cal and Michael speak with Luke Beck, Associate Professor at Monash University about the complexities of the bill, and constitutional law.

Check out Cal’s show back in 2018 on the initial conversation about the Religious Discrimination Bill’s first iteration on Well Well Well’s Australia’s Religious Freedom Review.

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HIV Election Priorities

Michael — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 11:00:45 +0000

Priorities for HIV & AIDS for the Victorian State Election

It has been 35 years since Australia’s rst Human Immunode ciency Virus (HIV) diagnosis. It was
a time when fear was pervasive, knowledge
of HIV was limited, and initial treatment, once developed, was relatively ineffective. Little could be done to prevent the progression of HIV toAcquired Immunode ciency Syndrome (AIDS) and AIDS-related illnesses, yet faced with fear anduntold misery, we rallied. Community members, volunteers, researchers, health professionals andgovernments worked together to ght HIV. For the most part Victorians have bene ted from long-standing bipartisan support for effective action

on HIV, and the shared understanding that key to an effective HIV response is government workingin partnership with community-controlled healthservices.

In this episode of Well, Well, Well – Michael catches up with Living Positive Victoria CEO Richard Keane, and Positive Women Victoria CEO Kirsty Machon. We discuss the recent booklet coproduced by Thorne Harbour Health, Living Positive Victoria and Positive Women Victoria to assist the new Government navigate the process of bettering health outcomes for people living with HIV, and working toward eliminating the virus. From stigma and decriminalisation, to biomedical prevention like PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) and HIV treatment – we leave no stone unturned from a comprehensive document of 27 actionable priorities for the future.

Before we wrap up, Michael shoots across to South Australia briefly to chat with Margy the Producer of Feast Festival – to talk about the queer festival coming up over 16 action packed days in November!

Check out these resources:

The Victorian State Election HIV & AIDS Priorities booklet

This show, Episode #644 originally aired Thursday 8th November 2018.

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