ISSUE 1 SecondEdition February 2011

QTonCampus
A new way to interact with your community
FEATURES:
• Welcome to 2011
• Introducing the departments
• Contributions from the Community
• Queer Collaborations 2011!
• Beyond Same Sex Marriage

Explore diversity
on Campus
with Queer Talk
 CONTENT Note from the editor
2 Note from the Editor
3 Introducing Queer Collaborations
6 Welcome to 2011: The Cross
Campus Queer Network
8 Murdoch O-Day Photos
9 The Freedom Centre: ExSight Youth
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Art Workshops and Exhibition.

11 The WA Gender Project
12 GALEforce: Human rights and
Marriage Fights
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The WA Aids Council: What is WAAC?
Feature: When Marriage isn’t QT Editorial
everything
Adelaide
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16 Social Media Reviews

17 Movie Review: Burlesque Knowles
s e a r c h

18 Music Review: Carl Fox

19 CCQN Website I’m so glad you picked up a copy of QT on campus. I know
you’ve no idea what to expect, because this is the first issue.
19 Contribute to QT
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We are a volunteer run magazine, that seeks to provide

community information to the queer students around
T w i tt e r

the major university Campuses in Western Australia. As a

part of the Cross Campus Queer Network, we realise that
sharing experiences and distributing information to as
many people as possible helps people learn, understand
and communicate their own experiences relating to sexual
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diversity and lifestyle choices that aren’t always accepted by

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the mainstream. We hope you find something here to enjoy.

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Introducing Queer Collaborations
Queer Collaborations is the annual Queer
conference for queer students all over Australia
to meet and discuss their social and political
futures. The conference started in 1991 when
a group of Sydney
activists organised a
statewide conference
to consolidate their
agendas in the
movement towards full
equality in their lives.
This quickly grew into a
national conference, which is hosted by a different
university each year. In 2011, Western Australia Organising meeting
will be hosting the conference for the third time Sunday 27th February
since its inception at Curtin University. Volunteers 2pm - 5pm
Curtin Student Guild
from the Cross Campus Queer Network have been
Queer Space
working together since the announcement last Another organising
year in July to make sure that when this year’s meeting for Queer
conference comes around, they will be hosting Collaborations is upon
what we hope to be one of the best conferences us, the 4th meeting of
the year - as you can
yet! Each conference has a theme, and in 2011, see we’ve been busy.
that theme is Building a Queerious Community: With registration and
Educate, Empower, Equip. accommodation all good
to go, it’s time to turn our
attention to the week’s
events including plenaries,
social events, the action
and just how we’re going
to keep all these Queers
entertained over the
weekend. It’s also time
to get some new ideas
from students still getting
acquainted with CCQNWA
in 2011, invite your friends,
or share some ideas either
on the QC website http://
ccqn.net/qc or on the
Facebook group. Search
for Queer Collaborations
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i nf o r mat i o n
2011.
A Bit More about QC 2011.
This conference happens
an d
every year with some
support from the National
Union of students, but it’s
r e s o u r c e s
mostly indepedantly run.
It provides an important
element in identifying
how your student guild
and university currently
acts in your interests
v i s i t
and how it should act.
It exists to protect the
rights of those who have
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in the past and still today
suffer the prejedices and
discriminations that come
with living a lifestyle of
sexual diversity, that is,
not stricty heterosexual.
The movement towards
equality in the law is
ongoing in the greater
community, but as
students, we play a vital
role in assessing the future
of the movement, not
just during our time on
campus, but beyond, into
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 More about Queer Collaborations
from the community,
to the different types
of expereinces we as
diverse individuals
experience in the
community. Whether
that be LGBTIQQA.
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In recent years the

conference spirit
has touched on
transgendered and
the great thereafter. bisexual issues and
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Strictly speaking it’s agendas which are

a forum where there often overlooked in QC 2010 a broad range of
are a lot of raw nerves, a community, where The University of interests. Western
heavy emotions, the most populous Wollongong Australia usually has a
and active minds contributors are gay In 2010 the rather difficult task of
f o r

engaged in providing men and lesbian conference was held getting students onto
safe environments, women. So it is for at the University of aeroplanes to fly them
Wollongong in New interstate to make it to
s e a r c h

ideological discussions all varieties of human

and national policy being, whether your South Wales. Their QC, but this year, we are
regarding the future interests are strictly theme was Fighting fortunate to be hosting
of all things queer for political, or socially Queers Need Fighting the conference, making
queer students on Unions. The conference it more accessible to
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critical, - QC is a week
a national level. In long think tank to raise is arranged around a local queer students, so
T w i tt e r

other words it’s like issues and address them series of caucases and that our attendence and
an orgasmic orgami as a community in the workshops relating presence is expected to
of activism. It’s also a spirit of change and the to the various needs be our largest and most
forum to rouse support hope of resolution. and interests of voiced congregation
the community. At yet. This is a great
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Wollongong their opportunity to explore

were approximately the broader community,
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9 caucases and 40 the hidden diversity,

different workshops issues and agendas that
over a 5 day period. define what it means to
be queer and a student
The workshops include in age where same sex
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a wide range of marriage dominates the

topics, from planning media persepctive on
a National Gender queer rights, but there
Movement, Drug Health is much more to it than
and Safe Partying, the that.
History of Drag Kings,
Same Sex Domestic The QC WEBSITE
Violence, Queers with Visit http://ccqn.net/qc
Disabilities, Practical Updated regularly.
Poly... the list goes on The QC theme is
and on and covers building a Queerious
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Building a Community
Community, which
The WA contingent in
means that utilizing
Wollongong in 2010
social media and
technology becomes a
key tool to community
building, information
sharing and making
friends. In the lead up

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to the conference, the
Cross Campus Queer

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Network is making
all the information,
including minutes,

i nf o r mat i o n
documentation,
workgroups and
contacts available
online, to help people
find the information
they need, to participate
in QC 2011. Since we are

an d
still in the early stages
of 2011, there are still
many things which need

r e s o u r c e s
organising, but we’ve “Strictly words it’s like For more information
please contact you
also come a long way speaking it’s a an orgasmic Queer Department.
already.
forum where orgami of
There are copies of the there are a activism” Curtin University
lot of raw forms and polls relating sexuality@guild.curtin.edu.au

v i s i t
minutes of previous
to the different ways that UWA
meetings, as well as nerves, heavy people can participate queer@guild.uwa.edu.au
emotions, and in the conference. It Murdoch

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active minds is also a link to the queer@the-guild.com.au
engaged in various social media ECU
efforts being made on queer@ecuguild.org
providing safe Facebook, Twitter and
environments, Youtube to reach as or contact us directly
ideological many people with an ccqn.qc2011@gmail.com
discussions and interest in the conference
as we can. You’ll also Visit the website
national policy find regular blogs and
regarding the information from the http://ccqn.net/qc
future of all CCQNWA organisers as
things queer for they with the help of Or join the FB page
community volunteers
queer students put this conference
on a national together.
level. In other
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 WElcome to 2011
The year 2011 is a big year for all queer
university students, whether it is your first
time on campus, or you are returning for
(yet another) year of study. There are many
different reasons the Cross Campus Queer
Network exists, and it is for these reasons that
students volunteer their time to make safe
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spaces on campus, organise activities for the

community, organisie and attend rallies for
equal rights with the support from the broader
organisations, but most importantly its to have
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fun in a safe and accepting environment. We

always have heaps of fun, as our community
continues to grow, empowering more events
and funding in the name of your right to have
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a safe and enjoyable experience on campus

and during your time studying your degree.
point you in the right guild and the University
s e a r c h

direction. Chancellory. There have

been some obstacles
There are a wide range to getting where they
of reseources available are today, but now they
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from the Curtin Queer are doing very well,

Department, including with support from their
T w i tt e r

safe space, books guild, to ensure a safe

and video resources, space in the Murdoch
a study area, sexual Guild complex, an
health pamphlets, and active presence in Guild
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experience in helping Council and resources

young people address to help keep people
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issues about their informed about sexual

Curtin Queer The Curtin Queer sexuality by providing health and your rights .
Department Department is located support to empower
Officers: Nick Jones and in the Curtin Student their choices.
Maz Rahman Guild area towards the
F o l l o w

sexuality@guild.curtin.edu North Western end Murdoch Queer

of campus. Just walk Collective
inside the double doors Officer: Kingsley Norris
and look for the rainbow queer@the-guild.com.
pride flag, or the queer auThe Murdoch Queer
chuckles eminating out Collective has been a
of the craziest room in very social and political
the building. Failing group in the previous
that you can contact years, perhaps due
either Maz or Nick to a bit of turbulence
and they’ll be sure to between the student

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Cross Campus Queer Network WA
UWA Queer
Department
Officers: Shamini Joseph
and Van Vooys
queer@uwa.guild.edu.au
The UWA Queer
Department works

F OR
with their guild to
provide a safe space on

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the third floor of their
guild building, while
providing a library of

i nf o r mat i o n
books and videos for
people wanting to brush
up on their history (and
ECU EXULT Queer future?). The two new
CollectiVE queer officers in 2011
Officers: TBA will be a wonderful
queer@ecuguild.org resource for prospective

an d
In recent years, the members. There is
Exult Queer Collective always something
happening at UWA

r e s o u r c e s
has had some rather
rough times. Despite Queer department so
a few years of strong sign up and get involved
leadership, there has in the fun.
been a lack of funding,
which has made the

v i s i t
task of providing all the
necessary facilities more
difficult than on other

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campuses - combined
with the fact they
have two campuses,
one in Mt Lawley and
one in Joondalup.
Once again in 2011,
CCQN will be assisting
the ECU collective to
ensure that they have
safe spaces for their
students and have
all the resources they
need to empower your
rights on campus. Get
involved and support
this community!

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 Murdoch Orientation Day 2011
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We were
8 there, we had a great time, chilling to the likes of Carl Fox and Jebediah. And we signed up teh queers.
 The Freedom Centre
courtesy of PHOTO SOURCE
ExSIGHT Youth
Art Workshops
and Exhibition
The Freedom Centre
is ExSIGHTed in the
lead up to the ‘ExSIGHT
Art Project’: a series
of community arts
workshops for young
people with Diverse
Sexuality, Sex and/or
Gender that will take
place at FC on February
26th and through
to March 2011. The
courtesy of PHOTO SOURCE
workshops will see the
young participants
produce visual arts
to exhibit in FC’s new
Youth Art Space and it
will all culminate with
an Exhibition launch in
F OR
April.
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Local artists Martin Wills
(www.territorytwelve.
com) and Peter Farmer
i nf o r mat i o n
have kindly agreed to
work with the Freedom
Centre, and will mentor
the young people while
facilitating the ExSIGHT
Art workshops. The
workshops will be based
an d
around visual arts -
incorporating different
media such as painting,
r e s o u r c e s
drawing, graffiti/street support young people of the workshops and
art, screen-printing, to enhance their existing throughout FC sessions
and sculpture elements artistic skills as well as in February and March.
to conduct a series of providing an avenue of Please RSVP to info@
workshops that will creative expression for freedom.org.au if you
v i s i t
LGBTI+ people aged want to attend the
under 26. workshops!
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The Freedom Centre The Freedom Centre’s
hopes ExSIGHT will also ExSIGHT Art Project and
enable participants to Exhibition Launch are
develop their artistic proudly sponsored by
skills and confidence by Propel Youth Arts WA and
providing an equitable, Healthway to promote
safe space for young the Drug Aware message
people to creatively and will be entirely drug,
explore issues that are smoke and alcohol-free
important to them and environments.
express themselves.
By Dani Wright
If you’re under 26 and Freedom Centre
want to get involved, Coordinator
let us know – you can
come to one or all
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WA Gender Project
Trans Law Reform in
Western Australia:
The State of Play
The last few years have been a
busy and productive time for
queer activists. In the few short
years that I’ve been involved in
activism, I’ve seen the passage
of the Acts Amendment (Lesbian
and Gay Law Reform) Bill, which
introduced an equal age of
consent and made it illegal to
discriminate on the basis of
sexual orientation, among other
things. More recently, I attended
the Australian Human Rights
Commission’s Same-Sex: Same
Entitlements inquiry, which
eventually led to the reform of
84 Commonwealth laws that
discriminated against same-sex
couples. These achievements
are rightly celebrated by our
community, but they are
often mistakenly referred to as
examples of GLBTI law reform.
They aren’t.
Describing them in this way
inadvertently hides the fact
that there has been no trans or
intersex law reform in Western
Australia since the Gender
Reassignment Act (2000). Unlike
gay, lesbian, or bisexual people,
trans people are not protected
from discrimination unless they
have undergone complex and
expensive surgeries to alter their
reproductive organs. People who
don’t want surgery, have chosen
to have other kinds of surgery
that don’t qualify, or who can’t
afford surgery aren’t protected.
This includes the majority of trans
people. People with intersex
conditions also find themselves
in murky territory. Although
technically protected under the
impairment provisions of the
Equal Opportunity Act, there is
no explicit mention of intersex.
Being able to change your
birth certificate remains a real
headache, both for trans people,
and for some intersex people
who identify as intersex rather
than male or female. The knock-
on effects are huge, and include
being unable to get a passport
that shows the correct sex (which
can make travel difficult, or even
dangerous), difficulty getting
medical treatment (including
important preventive health
measures like Pap smears), and
problems with taxation (like
not being able to claim for
many of the medical expenses
associated with transition).
There is also very little support
available through the public
health system for people who
need to alter their bodies as
part of the transition process.
Hormones like testosterone can’t
be accessed cheaply through the
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
until Medicare has changed
the sex on your records (which
requires surgery), and very few
surgeries are available in public
hospitals, so people are generally
forced to pay for surgery
themselves. To put this in
perspective, it costs somewhere
in the region of $20,000 to
$30,000 for vaginoplasty, which
all states currently require trans
women to undergo before they
can achieve a legal change of
sex. Paradoxically, the state will
pay for the often unnecessary
F OR
“correction” of the genitals of
intersex children, which remains
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one of the most pressing human
rights issues for intersex people.
i nf o r mat i o n
Many of these issues were
identified by the Australian
Human Rights Commission in
the Sex Files inquiry, and have
been the subject of a recent
consultation. However, we need
to pressure both the state and
an d
Commonwealth government
into actually acting on these
inquiries! We also need greater
r e s o u r c e s
awareness of these issues within
GLBTI organisations, to ensure
that the addition of the T and I
to the alphabet soup isn’t just a
token gesture. A good starting
v i s i t
point would be recognising that
there has been no serious trans
or intersex law reform in Australia
for a decade, and that these
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issues must be a priority for GLBTI
groups.
If you’d like to know what you
can do to support trans or
intersex activism, check out
the website of the WA Gender
Project, the peak lobby group
for trans and intersex people
in Western Australia -- www.
wagenderproject.org
Zoë, WA Gender Project (Inc)
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 Gay and Lesbian Equality
same-sex attracted and gender-
diverse people illegal (at the
moment that remains solely
the realm of state and territory
governments) and ensured that
the rights of same-sex attracted
and gender- diverse Australians
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are considered in the creation

GALE force - Human of new laws, with enforceable
Rights and Mariage penalties for any breaches of
removal of legal discrimination
against GLBTI people and their
Fights human rights in this regard. Still
families. Jump online and head
– the government is proposing a
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to www.families4freedom.info for
$2 million education framework
It is with great disappointment more information.
for Human Rights that (hopefully)
that I see that the Federal
policy-makers will need to
Government has announced Kitty Hawkins, GALE Co-Convenor
take into consideration when
a Human Rights Act will not
formulating policy, so it’s a start.
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be introduced in Australia.
There has been a good deal of
And it is with human rights
debate surrounding the issue
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in mind that I remind readers

– the amount of power given
that International Day Against
to Judges, the ability of policy
Homophobia is fast approaching.
makers to chop and change
May 17th of this year will be the
legislation at will as well as
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20th anniversary of the removal

whether to instead opt for a Bill
of homosexuality from the
of Rights (which would amend
T w i tt e r

World Health Organisation’s list

the Australian Constitution) and
of diseases (Yeah. Only 20 years.
so on. However, it is difficult to
Scary.) As a part of the National
deny that the introduction of
Year of Action for Equal Marriage,
an Australian Human Rights Act
community and activist groups
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would have changed Australia for

will gather across the country to
the better.
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demand an end to discrimination

and a repeal of the 2004 ban on
While it may not have completely
same-sex marriage.
eradicated legal discrimination
against GLBTI people, it would
In Perth there will be a gathering
have helped introduce federally
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in the CBD on May 15th in

consistent laws that would have
support of IDAHO and of the
made discrimination against

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WA AIDS COUNCIL
What is WAAC?
The vibrant red logo of the WA
AIDS Council (WAAC) pops up in
a fair few places, and might be a
familiar sight if you’re part of WA’s
queer community, but have you
ever stopped to consider what
we actually do? There’s probably
sides to WAAC you were unaware
of!
The WA AIDS council works to
strengthen our community’s
health and wellbeing. In a
nutshell? We’re dedicated to
the prevention of HIV, and the
treatment and care of people
living with HIV/AIDS.
For people living with HIV, we
provide practical assistance and
support. The kind of services we
offer can include counselling,
peer support, workshops,
activities, advocacy, retreats and
access to complementary health
services.
WAAC’s Diverse Sexuality Health
Promotion Services department
provide perhaps the most visible
of the services we offer. This
department specialises in health
promotion and services for men
who are gay and men who have
sex with men (MSM).
For gay men and MSM, we have
short term education, retreats
and discussion courses dealing
with health and related issues
such as coming out, sexuality,
relationships, sex and sexual
health.
We participate in major GLBTI
community events such as Pride
Fairday, the Pride parade and
Club West. Our Safe Sex Angel
volunteers can also be seen at
such events handing out safe sex
packs and information.
WAAC has two sexual health
clinics for gay men and men who
have sex with men. The clinics
provide sexual health checks,
anonymous HIV and STI testing
and safe sex information.
Interested in finding out more?
You can find details for the M
clinic, the sauna outreach clinic
and the range of information,
and support for gay men and
MSM at the Project X website,
www.projectx.net.au
Diverse Sexuality and Health
Promotion is also the department
in which the Freedom Centre is
based. For more information on
Freedom Centre check out their
article in this zine, or go to www.
freedom.org.au
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With all of our community
i nf o r mat i o n
engagement with the GLBTIQ
community, you might be
excused for thinking we
are a GLBTQ specific health
organisation! In reality though,
WAAC provides services to a
diverse range of communities
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who are affected by, or at risk
of acquiring HIV. like Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islanders, school
r e s o u r c e s
leavers, mine workers, people
travelling overseas, people with
culturally and linguistically
diverse backgrounds, injecting
drug users and other health
services. We work collaboratively
v i s i t
with these communities of clients
to develop services that are
sensitive and responsive to their
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specific needs.
For more information on all of
the services WAAC offers, please
visit us at www.waaids.com
Zoe Carter
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 Feature: When marriage isn’t everything
Gay, Straight, Black
or White, Marriage is
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a Civil Right -
But wait there’s
more...
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In an ideal world, everyone has
the same rights. The evolution of
society is vindicative of that ideal,
f o r
except they got it a little warped.
Instead of everyone having
s e a r c h
the same rights, they decided
that everyone was supposed
to behave and act in the same
manner. That would more often
o r
than not mean punishing any
deviation from social rules and
T w i tt e r
community laws. Being queer
was hard, isn’t that what they
would being saying in modern
times such as this? No, being
o n
queer is still tough, because
there is a backlog of ungracious
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social norms which punish some
of us for being and behaving
differently and not conforming to
expectations, particularlyrelating
to the people we choose to love.
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The right to love whom we
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desire, comes from our hearts, it
isn’t something that is awarded
to us by the state, but in my
opinion, the equal marriage
argument while overall a
very positive action for same
sex recognition, completely
blindsides real queer issues.
Whether or not I get married, to
a person of the same or different
sex, is one of the secondary
considerations I make when it
comes to making decisions about
or handling due to gender or
my future, after all, what happens
sexuality issues? Perhaps they’ve
if I end up alone, or can’t come to
accidently gotten on the wrong
terms with my sexuality, gay or
side of sexually transmitted
straight, then while I may choose
disease? But then again perhaps
to get married, I certainly won’t
not.
be doing anyone any favours.
In an ideal world these things
While the proud lovers are
wouldn’t exist, we should be
parading their new his and his
campaigning against youth
wedding bands, should we ask
suicides that relate to gender and
ourselves, were either of the
sexuality, against homelessness
newly weds ever homeless in
among young lgbt peoples, we
their teenage years, kicked out
should not be so distracted and
of the family home, or runaways
beheld, by what in my opinion
because they couldn’t find
is a relatively trivial affair. Same
acceptance with their families?
sex marriage is great, but I wish
How about attempts on their
someone would get to the
own life? Did either of them have
real issues here, that en masse
a drug or alcohol addition, or
acceptance of lbgt people
were they previously involved in
has been unacceptable to the
a same sex relationship plagued
point where it has in the past
by domestic violence? Have they
and around the world, been
had health problems relating to
recognized as violation of the
inadequate medical treatment
most basic human rights. The
Queer issues beyond equal marriage
right to love who ever we choose.
The right to have shelter. The
right to medical attention. The
right to equal employment. The
right to en education.

While I am an avid supporter of

same sex marriage, I dearly wish

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that the issue of homelessness in
young lgbt people was getting

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as much attention, I wish that
we were introducing policy for
young queer peoples in primary

i nf o r mat i o n
and secondary schools, including
a homosexual sex education.
Despite those desires, I guess I’ll
just have to let it sink in that first
comes marriage.... then what?
Are we going to redraw political
battle lines and continue to let

an d
the people and the government
idle on critical issues? Are

r e s o u r c e s
politicians buying our votes
just to quell the ever growing
support for recognition of same
sex relationships?

I wonder if the people who

v i s i t
have come out in support of
gay marriage will return to the
political frontier to eliminate all

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types of inequality relating to
lgbt peoples. I hope so, I hope
that this movement for change
is a real movement for change,
and not just a way of silencing
the little voice inside your head
that tells you something isn’t
quite right, it isn’t fair. Support
for same sex marriage has been
growing steadily, so I wonder, if
we are actually over the hill and
moving towards equality, or if
we are in fact, going to have to
fight a whole new battle to rally
enough support to ensure the
future of lgbt young people.

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 Social media For Facebook’s gay users who aren’t
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quite ‘married’ but are in a serious and
legally-recognised relationship, new
options rolling out this week mean
your status may no longer need to be
“It’s Complicated.” Alongside exist-
ing Relationship Status options like
Engaged, Married, In an Open Rela-
tionship, Divorced and Single, will be “in a civil union” or “in a
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domestic partnership.” The change is rolling out in America,

Canada, the UK, France and Australia in coming days.
“This has been a highly requested feature from users,” a
Facebook rep told Mashable.com.
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“We want to provide options for people to genuinely and

authentically reflect their relationships on Facebook.” We love Tumblr. You do too.

Facebook says it has been working with LGBTI groups to http://aseawithin.tumblr.com/

combat anti-gay bullying and work on diversity measures Mister Sister
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as the recent spate of high-profile suicides of bullied queer/

questioning teens shocked America and the world. I like good music, activism,
This still one particular point of contention with Facebook
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make up, all things

profile settings however – currently their gender options
are set as either ‘I am Male’ or ‘I am female’. Some transgen-
geekery, bioshock, crafts,
der groups have recently indicated a third option such as ‘I bad jokes about pink eye
am Transgender’ or ‘Gender unspecified’ would help ac-
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knowledge or include people whose gender status is going

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through a transition. (18/2/11 - Sydney Star Observer)

Tweet Tweet http://allyns.tumblr.com
Who’s there? Ally Needs
Nobody tweets in,
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Nobody tweets in who? http://milishamagazine.

Nobody tweets in Perth. com I can’t take it, do
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something about or fade

Bad jokes aside it’s really true. In the Eastern States tweeting away.
is really popular, sharing links between members of the
community and even promoting flaking social scenes, clubs
and events. The Queer Scene, here in our lovely state, can
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sometimes get ‘Perthed’ meaning, that because we are

isolated, we can bored with the same old routine, everyone
http://perthstreetart.tumblr.com
knowing everyone etc. Mother Has Words
Twitter might take a bit of getting used to, but it’s fantastic
for creating an extra level to the social scene. Here are a few
Perth street art shots
twitter accounts we follow. Let’s make this list even better from the past 6ix
as the year progresses. @OutinPerth @allthingsqueer years. all images © the
@galewa @djfeminem @ Connectionswa @motherhaswords. photographer.
Is that paltry or what? Let’s try to give the queer peoples a
bit of a spark!
Follow
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Us @CCQNWA or #queerperth #ccqnwa #qc2011
Movies
bURLESQUE
This new movie could have revived the careers of
two epic showgirl Divas - Christina Aguilera and
Cher. In case you didn’t
know Cher is more than
just a gay icon these
days, she is the mother
of Chaz Bono, a post op
female to male trans
person. Back to the
movie - everyone was
expecting excitement
to be thrown in somewhere during this movie and
with two big names coming together for a bit of a
romp and it that respect it didn’t disappoint, after
all they are musicians by trade and gorgeous babes
by nature - but when the film attemps to create a
storyline equal to the voices and the glamour of the
burlesque it fails. Well... to say it fails is probably a
little inaccurate, because in order to fail you actually
have to try first. The characters we’ve seen before in
other movies done with a good deal more feeling,
I don’t think I could follow the story, because it
was so dry and witless. In other words, Christina
Aguilera aka Ally, a country gal, has to sing and
shake her booty to raise the money to save the
Burlesque theatre, heard that story before? The
singing and performances are still show stopping,
unfortunately it just adds to the discontnuity of the
story line, and the final realisation and acceptance,
that you’re not watching it for the plot.
Music
CARL FOX - CHUNKY RAINBOW
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M ORE
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Released earlier this year, CARL FOX‘s debut
album ‘Chunky Rainbow’ brings a new kind of
r e s o u r c e s
music to the Perth music scene and beyond.
The bouncy tracks on this album sound like
the studio equipment is high on radioactive
waste, sprouted legs and is running around the
room. Take his first single, ‘Chunky Rainbow’,
which is about a guy that is in love with a girl
v i s i t
and overanalyses everything. The song’s fast
rhythms and coiling melodies give it a fun, lively
feeling that makes you believe that everything
will be okay in the end.
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The album on a whole is very fantasy-like, using
magical settings and tales of utopian dreams.
The first track, ‘Perfect Purple’, for example, is
about a man that finds a purple female flower
that is so beautiful he becomes a flower just to
be with her. When he realises that he’s stealing
all her nutrients, he uproots himself and dies
by her side. Using an electric stutter to mix live
and electronic instruments, the sounds in this
track give you a feel for the indietronica sound
continued on the rest of the album.
Yes they played with Jebediah at O-Day 2011!
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An annual event to share, learn, meet and

workshop with Queers from around the country!
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http://ccqn.net
You might not have heard about it here first,
but you won’t hear about it here last. That’s
right peoples, CCQN has gone and got itself
a website! It happened over summer, the
blooming CCQN community has just gotten
her digital tits in and already its bringing all the
Contribute to QT
It’s that time of the day when you’ve reached
the end of yet another issue of QT on Campus.
Wait, that’s impossible because THIS IS THE
FIRST ISSUE! If you’d like to support the
ongoing production and publication of QT
please follow the details below.
You can contact the editor at zine@ccqn.

F OR
boys to the yard (can I say that in 2011?). The net to contribute, or get involved with the
site itself is built upon a social network and is community via the CCQN.NET website by

M ORE
a great place to find information about events, joining the Q-Zine group. First of all you’ll have
join groups including a group for this very to sign up to the website, then you’ll have to
publication, create a profile, browse photos, join the group. It’s not complicated and it is

i nf o r mat i o n
videos, check the latest from CCQN on twitter not crowded just yet.
and facebook. Get online and get into it!
There are 5 issues of QT to be produced in
contribute in some of 2011, the innagural year. If you’d like to see it
the ongoing initiatives continue into future years, you can help set up
that have been set up some vital infrastructure to ensure that it will
by the collective over be available to whoever wants to be a part of it.

an d
the past few years, now You don’t have to be queer to contribute, but it
accessible over the helps. Talk to you soon

r e s o u r c e s
internet.
ISSUE 1 First Edition February 2011

For a short time, or

QTonCampus
The website is a part of possibly a long time,
supporting a growing there is also a mobile
community with application for iPhone

v i s i t
growing responsibilities, available http://ccqnwa.
A new way to interact with your community
such as taking on QC in isites.us. The lifespan FEATURES:
2011. It is an interactive of this app is by no t
Welcome to 2011

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means guaranteed, but t
Introducing the departments
community meaning t
Contributions from the Community
that while there are it might be a fun way t
Queer Collaborations 2011!

regular contributors and to get acquainted with

links to live activity on CCQNWA in the new
twitter and facebook. year!
It’s built around your
own comments and Did I also mention all
contributions, not so the community based
much to the website, information, links and
but the Cross Campus resources are online?
Explore diversity
on Campus
Queer Network itself. Including a large
There are plenty of range of up to date
opportunities to learn pamphplets and copies
about the community
and just as many
of this Q-Zine? I should
have... with Queer Talk
opportunities to
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QT on Campus is produced by and for the members of the Cross Campus Queer
Network WA and its supporters near and far. Please enjoy a copy and pass it on to a
friend if you’ve finished with it. View the online version at http://ccqn.net/resources/
zine and check out the website while you’re there!

That’s it for issue 1. Stay tuned for the next issue in April!