OII Australia’s photographs of events and individuals.
Gina Wilson and Morgan Carpenter from OII Australia participated in the National LGBTI Health Alliance‘s first intersex and trans roundtable at the offices of the Australian Human Rights Commission on 18 and 19 June. Other intersex participants were Sandra, president of the AIS Support Group Australia, and Andrew, representing a Tasmanian group. From the Press…
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Angelus Valentine Morningstar arranged a day of speakers on LGBTQI human rights activism at New South Wales Parliament House on Wednesday, 29 February 2012 from 9am to 5pm. Leap day was midway through the second week of Sydney’s LGBTQI Mardi Gras 2012, the first Mardi Gras to be staged after intersex people were accepted into…
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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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OII Australia members were inside the Australian Labor Party (ALP) National Conference at Darling Harbour and supported the marriage equality rally outside the conference venue on Saturday December 3 2011. Intersex Australians lost the right to marriage when the Howard Liberal federal government amended the Marriage Act 1961, changing the definition of marriages as between…
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We have published some photographs from last Saturday’s rally for marriage equality in Sydney. Members of OII Australia often choose to attend these events because intersex people do not have the equal right to marriage in Australia under the amendments to the Marriage Act 1961. Although we did not contribute a speech on the lack…
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There is a lot of confusion about what intersex is and isn’t. Is it part of LGBTIQ? Is it allied with trans, or sex and gender diverse people? Is it an identity or a biological state? Hear us speak for ourselves. In a workshop run entirely by intersex people, we will present information on the…
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