OUT NT hears from the gang in Alice about the upcoming Alice Springs Pride Carnivale starting July 30. Family fair day, pride party, film night, an art exhibition, workshops and forums are all part of this year’s festival. “The opening night art exhibition on Thursday July 30 kicks off another great weekend celebrating diversity in Central Australia,” […]
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Alice Springs Youth Pride – 14 July
The next Youth Pride get together is happening soon! The group is a youth led initiative run from a committee of young people, aiming to challenge stigma and provide support to young people who are Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, Transgender, Intersex or Questioning their gender or sexual identity. Youth Pride will be creating a resource pack and […]
Art of Pride launched, Homage: an Expression of Human Diversity coming up
On Friday 3rd of July Mayfair Gallery became Gayfair Gallery, and top end queers and their families, friends and supporters got their art on at the opening of ‘Art of Pride – Queer Territory’. Superbly curated by local artist Matty Vanroden, and framed as a ‘soft opening’ of Darwin Pride Festival, over 100 people attended the […]
Cake to share: newsletter 11
Cake to share is a random section of the newsletter where people can share something with others. Not all cake suits all tastes, so please sample or skip as you wish. Email your cake to share to outnt@outnt.info NAIDOC week, Indigenous inclusion http://www.starobserver.com.au/opinion/the-importance-of-lgbti-indigenous-inclusion/138278 Relentlessly gay – oh yes I am http://www.salon.com/2015/06/18/baltimore_woman_responds_to_homophobe_by_making_yard_even_more_relentlessly_gay/ Research, call for participants, lived experiences […]
Research project on the health and wellbeing of transgender and sex/gender diverse Northern Territorians
Trans*? Transgender? Transsexual? Transwoman? Transman? F2M? M2F? Sistergirl? Brotherboy? Genderqueer? Sex/gender diverse? Dr Stephen Kerry would like to talk to you. Over the past few weeks you may have seen some local and national media coverage of issues facing trans* people in the NT. ABC (click here), NT News (click here), The Weekly with Charlie Pickering (click […]
Dine and Prance – Alice Pride fundraiser
Alice Pride continue their fundraising to put on the Pride festival this year. Get your bee-hind down to The Memo Club this Saturday. An official Alice Springs Pride Carnivale Fundraising event hosted by The Memo Club. Saturday 23 of May at 6:00pm Come and join for a night of dining and entertainment with live music, […]
Review of CDU and its support of lgbtqi staff and students
The short version – according to this report CDU needs to do a lot better for its lgbtqi students and staff. This guide has been released ranking Australia’s universities’ support of queer students (and staff). http://lgbtiuniguide.org.au/universities/northern-territory/charles-darwin-university/
Rainbow Territory present at UN Youth Assembly NT as part of IDAHOT
Last Saturday two Rainbow Territory members Alex and Gail were involved in the United Nations Youth Assembly Human Rights Summit on LGBTQI issues, held at Charles Darwin University. The Summit was one held in most state and territory capitals around Australia, as part of the weekend of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. Aimed […]
Updates to community resources on outnt.info
Did you know the outnt website has a community resources page? New resources have recently been added following some research by Rainbow Territory. Trans*, intersex, youth, and domestic violence information and resources have been added. Including information about the Safe Schools Coalition, which is coming soon to the Territory (yay!). http://www.outnt.info/community-resources/ The page lists NT […]
Rainbow Territory community stall @ Nightcliff Seabreeze festival
Rainbow Territory is having a community stall at the Seabreeze festival in Nightcliff, in the Community Village area. Please drop by to say hi, have a chat, and meet other community members. If you would like to volunteer to help out on the day with Rainbow Territory please email outnt@outnt.info with the subject line Seabreeze festival. […]
Thursdays at the Cav
Gay men, trans men, bisexual men, msm, and their friends all welcome! (We are at the first table on the left as you walk in the front door) Every Thursday 5-7PM The Cav (Cavenagh Hotel) 12 Cavenagh St. Darwin Bring some $ for a drink or dinner
OUT NT Newsletter #6: Do Darwin @ Mardi Gras
The Departure Lounge and NTAHC took Darwin to Mardi Gras, and did the NT proud. Following on from the trail blazing Desert Devils from Alice in 1988, both are now part of Territory history. Adding to that history is the proud First Nations Float, which had participants from the NT including sistergirl Rosalina Curtis. If you weren’t at […]