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CONTENTS Drag in the spotlight
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Randos Korobacz
Moira Seward
PJ Adams
Zachary Williams Richelle Menzies Niamh Schofield
Finding a place in the queer mythology
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Isaac Tye
Everyone can play
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Liv Hogarth
Holding space - an I story PrEP and testing
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Ode 12 Signpost
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By Randos Korobacz & P.J. Adams
Drag in the spotlight RECENTLY A SMALL GROUP OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS PROTESTED A DRAG QUEEN STORYTELLING EVENT AT A BRISBANE LIBRARY. AFTER THE CONFRONTATION WAS FILMED AND WIDELY SHARED ON SOCIAL MEDIA, THE LEADER OF THE PROTEST TOOK HIS OWN LIFE. AS EXPECTED, AND IN DEPRESSING FASHION, THIS AWFUL PUBLIC SPECTACLE HAS KICKSTARTED YET ANOTHER NATIONAL DISCUSSION ABOUT ‘HEALTHY’ GENDER REPRESENTATIONS, WITH DRAG IN THE SPOTLIGHT.
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While religious debates of appropriateness have predicatively raged, some corners of the internet are claiming that Drag Queens are performing a type of sexist and misogynistic equivalent of ‘blackface’?! These are strong words. It is fair to say that despite there being a long history of Drag Kings, Drag is overwhelmingly represented by white men who dress in hyper-feminine costumes and act in stereotypically feminine ways. But this position is only surface deep. Firstly, while there is some overlap, Drag is different from transgenderism. The term ‘transgender’ is a personal gender identity and is an authentic and lasting sense of self, whereas Drag is a temporary and deliberate performance of gender expression. Gender expression is what we considered masculine and feminine traits that traditionally aligned with sex; Male = masculine – Female = feminine. While Trans folk have existed throughout history, Drag is especially related to theatrical performance. In the western context, Drag originated in Shakespearean theatres where it was illegal for females to perform. The term ‘Drag’ is believed to originated from the men’s dresses that would drag along the floor.
Consequently, acting became a choice occupation for men who wanted to express femininity. Male performances of femininity then became a mechanism in gay culture, to signal homosexuality and gender queerness. It is important to note that Drag was simply cross-dressing until the late 19th century, when female impersonators aligned with heterosexual culture split from the Drag Queens, who became synonymous and essential to the development of gay culture. During the 20th century, Drag culture developed through a boom of underground gay bars throughout the 1920s and 1930s. In the 1950s and 1960s law enforcement began to seriously crackdown on the Queer community through ‘appropriate’ gendered clothing laws.
During this time Drag was vital to the LGBT resistance. From the 1970s, Drag enjoyed a slow but rich creep into the mainstream gaze partly due to movies and television programs such as Paris is Burning, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and most recently Ru Paul’s Drag Race. This brings us to the Drag culture of today. Now there is no denying that Drag, especially in the early years, built caricatures of women and mocking personas of the ‘slut’, ‘diva’ or ‘dowdy housewife’, at the expense of femininity. However, Drag arose from a desire to be free from the crush of enforced masculinity. Today’s Drag culture has stepped so far away from female impersonation, it quite literally has become its own cultural brand of femininity. Yes, its bitchy, but it also places a profound emphasis on freedom of expression and promotes a gorgeously powerful, determined, independent, creative and a fiercely loving style of femininity. In this way, Drag exposes the performative nature of gender expression and reveals that ‘masculinity’ or ‘femininity’ is not exclusively owned by any sex. Male, Female or Intersexed, the existence of the Drag performer reveals both the restrictions and amazing possibilities of gender expressions. For example, female Drag uses ‘flamboyance’ which reveals the effort feminine performance requires. Whereas male Drag uses ‘controlled’ and ‘restrained’ performance, which exposes how male status alone can make a joke funnier or a voice more authoritative. The ambiguity between ‘pretending’ and ‘being’, reveals the falsehoods and mythology around gender norms. Drag benefits the entire community as it critiques and challenges gender norms. Drag through humor, and by virtue of its origins in entertainment, remains one of the most effective ways of challenging those norms. This is crucial because unchallenged dysfunctional gender norms lead to gendered and family violence, environmental exploitation, sexism, homophobia and transphobia.
As RuPaul himself says “I don’t dress like a woman; I dress like a drag queen! Co-written by Randos Korobacz and P.J Adams. Red thread Magazine - Autumn 2020
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By Isaac Tye
Finding a place in queer mythology ONE OF THE MOST HURTFUL TYPES OF QUEERPHOBIA IS THE PREVAILING MAINSTREAM UNDERSTANDING THAT WE DON’T EXIST. QUEER PEOPLE AREN’T THE HEROES OF MYTH OR THE LEADERS OF RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS. THERE HAS BEEN A CENTURIES LONG SILENCING OF QUEER PEOPLE, EXCLUDING US FROM THE NARRATIVES AND THE HALLS OF CULTURAL ICONS. WE’RE TAUGHT THAT EVERYONE HAS BEEN LIVING HETERONORMATIVE LIVES AS LONG AS HISTORY HAS BEEN WRITTEN. IT’S A LIE.
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In the myth of Pelops, our hero is murdered by his father, Tantalus, and served to the gods in an act of hubris. The gods realise they had been tricked before tasting the food, but Demeter, absent minded and mourning her daughter Persephone, took a bite of Pelops’ shoulder. The gods brought Pelops back to life, and Hephaestus constructed an ivory shoulder for Pelops. Later, Pelops became a lover of Poseidon and for many years Pelops was his chariot driver. To this day, the Peloponnese in Greece is named for Pelops. Finding the invisible queers in our cultural memory was something of a lifeline for me. My life in a fundamentalist Christian family wasn’t unique. The stories are found all over. Just scroll through /r/insaneparents for long enough and you’ll find one. They’re controlling, illogical, and often suspicious of the so-called ‘mainstream’. But the unique cocktail that raised me left me without any LGBT representation for a very long time. One thing I did have was mythology. It seems weird in retrospect that my parents and their church were fine with mythology. After all, Pokemon and Harry Potter were banned in my house for being immoral. But the rules were often random.
Queer representation has come a long way in the last ten years. The space for new queer representation is growing and I love that. Every time I see a queer character in a new show today, my heart warms for the LGBT youth growing up right now who get to see that.
But I think it is about time we stopped thinking about it as making a new space. We’re reclaiming one that has been stolen from us. History and mythology tell us we’ve always been here. It has just been shoved in the closet, when the dominant narrative pretended we didn’t exist. I advocate for any queer person, feeling a bit lost, to read about queer icons from our cultural memory. It gives me a lot of strength to know that people like me have existed for thousands of years. And they are household names even today.
Next time someone tells you “the gays” are some modern trend or that “marriage was always between a man and a woman”. Perhaps remind them of some famous queer characters. They might’ve heard of Alexander the Great, Adonis, Sir Gawain, Amaterasu, or Odin.
Queer mythos gave me a way to connect to culture. It gave me a place to understand myself, as a queer person. I didn’t get to see any culture watching television (it hardly existed anyway, and I didn’t get to see what there was). I didn’t get to read about it in fiction.
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By Liv Hogarth
Everyone can play SUPPORTING SPORTS CLUBS TO CREATE SAFE ENVIRONMENTS FOR LGBTIQ+ FOLKS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NO SURPRISE TO SOME THAT MOANA HOPE, STAR OF AFL WOMEN’S FOR THE FIRST THREE SEASONS, APPEARED ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE HERALD SUN OPENING UP ABOUT THE HOMOPHOBIC ABUSE SHE HAS EXPERIENCED BOTH AS A FOOTY PLAYER AND A FAN.
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Almost any LGBTIQ+ person who has played sport, whether it be at school, for a local club, or at an elite level, at best will have questioned whether it would be an ok place to come out, and at worst been exposed to some of the most hateful and hurtful language and abuse, if not physical abuse as well.
The Out on the Fields study in 2015 was the first international study on the experiences of lesbian, gay and bisexual people in sport. Australian data found that 80% of respondents had experienced or witnessed homophobia in sport; 70% of youth believed that youth team sport is not safe for gay people and 87% of gay men and 75% of gay women were not completely out in team sports. Participation for transgender folks can have even more complexity and challenges as a result of the very binary nature of sporting competitions. All these factors can result in withdrawal from sports participation, especially team sports, leading to reduced physical activity and poorer health and social outcomes associated with inactivity and isolation.
While many sports clubs wish to be inclusive, they often struggle to know how. To address this, Working It Out, Tasmania’s gender, sexuality and intersex status support and education service, have been awarded funding by the Tasmanian Government’s Healthy Tasmania Fund to deliver our latest project, Everyone Can Play. Our application was supported by Football Federation Tasmania, AFL Tasmania, Netball Tasmania and Tennis Australia – Tasmania. The project aims to train and support volunteer LGBTIQ+ Inclusion Officers to work within individual clubs. These officers will help the clubs develop and embed LGBTIQ+ inclusive policies and procedures. The LGBTI Inclusion Officer can also provide direct support to LGBTIQ+ club members and address any issues which may impact their participation. To ensure we are meeting the needs and concerns of the community and sports clubs, we will first conduct a community consultation. The next step will be to roll out the LGBTIQ+ Inclusion Officer training across the state. If you are keen to have your say during the consultation, or would like to see your club introduce an Inclusion Officer, or indeed attend the training yourself, please contact Liv at Working It Out on 6231 1200 or liv@ workingitout.org.au
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By Simone-Lisa
Holding space – an I-story
LET ME SET THE SCENE. YOU’VE SWIPED RIGHT, MADE CONTACT AND ARE TRAVELLING TOWARDS A SIZZLING FUN TIME. AT WHAT STAGE DO YOU LOOK THEM IN THE EYE AND HAVE THAT CHAT. WHAT DO YOU SAY. HOW DO YOU FRAME IT SO THEY DON’T RUN OFF SCREAMING TO THE NETHERS OR SCARILY LOOK AT YOU LIKE YOU’RE SOME SORT OF FETISH TO BE EXPLORED. I’M TALKING ABOUT INTERSEX VARIATIONS. HOW DO YOU COMMUNICATE IN A POSITIVE MANNER YOUR INTIMATE WORKINGS AS A PERSON.
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Let’s back up a bit and discuss internalised stigma or as its better known, shame.
Stigma is often quoted according to Goffman’s definition as an “attribute that is deeply discrediting” and that reduces the bearer “from a whole and usual person to a tainted, discounted one.” A person marked by stigma struggles with foreclosure, diminished self-esteem, discrimination, and isolation. Many intersex people suffer from internalised stigma. Literally from the moment they are born they are pathologized, told they are broken and need to be fixed, told not to tell anyone about their “broken-ness” and are hidden from society under a shroud of mystery and unknownness. In the vast gap on the biological sex spectrum between totally male and totally female, only 1.7% of the population exist with a wide range of differing variations. It’s isolating, I’ve noticed doctors and specialists take great joy in finding unknown variants in variants and advising that you are the only one so far to have this one.
Oh yay! No peers, no support, no idea how to move forward. Self-esteem is, in my view, something that comes from internal evaluation of oneself and how one sees themselves as a whole. This may eb and flow with your interactions with worldly occurrences. In order to ask someone for their time, you must have a decent amount of self-esteem. Think of a bucket; if its full, your self-esteem is high, and many things fill your bucket including selfcare and positive interactions. In order to ask a loved one for intimacy, you must have a positive body image, good selfesteem, and an idea on how this intimate act could be performed (apparently a helpful suggestion). Many intersex people but not all, find this a hard ask. Many are able to ask that special person to share time. And then become
emmeshed in each other’s lives. But taking that big step, that final step in one of many peoples’ culturally gifted life goals – it maybe that little bit too high a step, and they find their legs suddenly shorter and less able. This can lead to grief and partner loss. The bucket emptying without hope of that ideal, stuck in their heads of cultural expectations and norms. What are our cultural norms and expectations? Are these the ones from cis-gendered heteronormative patriarchal western values that partners must engage in penetrative sex culminating in child creation? Apparently, this makes the relationship valid and successful (like ripping off that band aid in one foul swoop).
Or are our cultural norms and expectations moving away from these outdated and realitynarrowing concepts to more widely realistic ones. Perhaps embracing outercourse, or finding what does it for you, what brings you intimately closer together creating those bonds of partnership. So, you’ve swiped right, (ha, right!) right? You’ve danced that unknown, yet ritualised, movement of potential mate-dom. Breathe, yep, breathe. Take that time to slow down, get your head straight. Have a few dates, spend that time. Enjoy their uniqueness (everyone is unique). Then sit them down, look them in the eye, tell them how much you care and let them in their own time move forward. You might get a … hey I have a genetic variation and it looks like this…. Wanna have some fun? ...or not... You have the knowledge to hold that safe space. We are all human (I think), we are all different, we all need to be valued for who we are.
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Ode
By Moira Seward
I am a human vice I am a pleasure device made to be used up and spat out. Please spit me out or spit on me. I am a gorgon I turn men’s bodies to stone and build a monument to myself from their bones. Their graveyard consists of those lecherous enough to look at me while in repose. Their names are forgotten and I wait for the day they are liberated. Please liberate me from this cavernous coffin. I am a smoker. But I would quit smoking for you. I would harvest my organs and donate them to your scientific study of heartbreak. My life insurance policy would burn out in my fingertips for the pleasure of a kiss. Please burn me. I am a whore of Babylon. Dejected and unrequited, but quietly My plight is heightened By the freedom I rely on. I fight for my shackles to snap under the weight of my light. Please enlighten me. I am a marble statue Missing limbs but perfectly carved features that are unchanged by creatures of this world. I am stubborn and stoic, beautifully heroic and yet you would lock me away behind a plexiglass prison for your own vanity Please look at me. I am a child Barely 5, and yet I pay the price of a life time I have no life line Be a little more kind To each other, To your mother and your brother, To the artwork that you honour To your lover, tell her you love her Tell her you adore her. Make your presence known Acknowledged, Please acknowledge me. To those who inspire me Who designed me I will not spit you out with bloodied teeth that line the inside of my biography. I will tend to your burns with my tears and lick up the remnants of the blistering pain you feel. I will sate your fears and care for you into the years. I will endure the suffering with you, and hold your pain to my chest like an iron breastplate, ready to battle your monsters, heart in hand, wielded like a weapon. I will love you. Please love me too. Red thread Magazine - Autumn 2020
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By Richelle Menzies
IDAHOBIT 17 MAY International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersex and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) is about reducing homophobia, biphobia, intersex and transphobia (and any other stigma and discrimination towards LGBTIQ+ people) in the workplace and is celebrated on May 17 every year. There are events in many organisations, and it is often one of the days on the rainbow calendar that gets the most notice in workplaces that are on their inclusivity journey. So how do you reduce this type of discrimination in the workplace? In the health and community sector,QIP provide guidance through the Rainbow Tick Standards and the LGBTIQ+ Accreditation Audit. In the corporate sector, Pride and Diversity (ACON) offer inclusion consultancy 16
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and training services. Here in Tasmania there are two other options to support LGBTIQ inclusion: Working it Out and Queer Connections Consulting (a project of Sensual Potential). OK‌so what are these Rainbow Tick Standards and how do you know an organisation or business is inclusive? You may well ask. The six standards are: 1.
Organisational Capability
2. Workforce Development 3.
Consumer Participation
4. A Welcoming and Accessible Organisation 5.
Disclosure and Documentation
6. Culturally safe and Acceptable Service You can find out which organisations are on their journey to inclusion by checking with Rainbow Tick, Pride in Diversity, looking for the Working It Out Signpost logo, Dorothy Award certificate or the Queer Connections Consulting Stars of Inclusion. For more information on Rainbow Tick check out the Inclusive Practice Guide online at www.rainbowhealthvic.org.au
Organisations registered with Signpost across Tasmania SOUTH:
Rainbow Youth Events Hobart
Jaylan Electrical
A Twist of Lemons
Red Parka
Kentish Regional Clinic Inc.
Advocacy Tasmania
Relationships Australia Tasmania
Patrick Street Clinic
RFT - Destination Wellbeing
Weddings For Everyone
Scots Memorial Church
Youth, Family & Community Connections
Alison Standen Arbonne Independent Consultant Arwen Dyer Bronwyn’s Driving Instruction
Sensual Potential
City Organics
State Bookstore
Colony 47
State Cinema
Danu Herbs
TASCAHRD
David O’Byrne
The Art of Tea Bouteaque
Ella Haddad MP
The Hobart Bookshop
Equal Opportunity Tasmania
The Link Youth Health Service
Eye Am Hair
The Page And Cup
Fiori Florist
Tranquility Float and Reflexology Hobart
FRIENDZ LGBTIQ SOCIAL GROUP Hamlet
Youth Arts & Recreation Centre
Hobart Cat Café
NORTH:
Hobart Out Tennis Inc
Attitude Counselling
Holyoake
CVGT Launceston
Hospice volunteers South
Deloraine House Inc
inside Hobart Joyous Celebrations
Launceston Community Legal Centre
Junction Motel
May Shaw Health Centre
Lindisfarne Psychology & Wellbeing Centre
Positive Solutions
Mr. Good Guy Bar + Asian Kitchen
The Blue Door
Mures Tasmania
NORTH-WEST:
Positive Solutions
Burnie City Council
Pulse Youth Health
Connect4Life
QTAS Arts
Dr Claire Jensen
Respect at Work
Tess Moodie Therapies
TASMANIA WIDE: Anglicare Tasmania Carers Tasmania Community and Public Sector Union Council on the Ageing Engender Equality Equal Together Family Violence Counselling and Support Service Mental Health Council of Tasmania Rainbow Communities Tasmania St John Ambulance Statewide Sexual Health Service Tasmania Police TasPride Transgender Tasmania Uniting AgeWell UTAS Ally Network Working It Out
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By Niamh Schofield
Filthy what! MY BRASH RED-HEADED COWORKER WOULD BRAG OF HER ENDLESS CONQUESTS. HER LECTURES ON LUST OOZED WITH BOGAN REGALITY. I LISTENED TO HER CARNAL RE-ENACTMENTS GREEDILY. SHE BOASTED OF NEVER LETTING A MAN STAY OVERNIGHT. THE ROOM HAD A PINK CANOPY BED DRAPED WITH LACE AND FAIRY LIGHTS. AFTER ONE AFTERNOON OF MAKING CALLS, IN BETWEEN MAKING JOKES OF ESCALATING DEPRAVITY, HER TONE GREW GENTLE. HER GENUINE CURIOSITY WAS BARELY HIDDEN. “REALLY THOUGH, HOW DO YOU LEZZAS HAVE SEX?”
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I was AGHAST! My co-worker, modern Boadicea, didn’t know how to have good sex. I found out how cis-women cum when I was twelve, so I’ve never wondered how lesbians have sex. A slim tome called “She Comes First” was hidden behind blushing historical fiction on a sticky oak bookcase. The glittering orange papaya on the cover glimpsed coyly at me, the dozens of beetle black shiny eyes delving deeply into my own. I f*cked myself with clinical determination by candlelight, following the written instructions carefully. I should have answered my co-worker like this: with fingers, with thighs, with cucumbers, with sweaty mouths, with fists, with feet, it doesn’t matter, just together.
Instead I said: if you are genuinely interested you should Google it. I felt a stinging bolt of sadness. I get the “Oi! How do lesbians really have sex though?” from: friends, and strangers, and drunk guys at midwinter festivals who joke they’ve slipped something in my drink, and my Mum. After glasses of bloody, tumescent wine, Mum told me that she was sure I was just one of those people who just appreciates beauty in all things, like her formerly lesbian nursing friends. “I like women Mum. I’m not sexually attracted to men right now.” She shuddered deeply. “Do you have to talk about it like that? All I can picture is you having sex. How would you like it if all you could picture when I talked was me and Dad having sex?”. I thought about it graphically for a moment, the halfmuffled groans, and found myself a little too unperturbed. “Surely if I had a boyfriend you would have the same issue though? Whenever I’d bring him home all you’d be able to think about is us having sex.”
Mum paused for a second, swirling the bitter wine. “Yes, of course I would. But the difference is, at least I know what that looks like, so it’s not as shocking.”
Later, I am at my girlfriend’s mum’s house (Dee). “Stop it! You two are basically having sex on the couch!”, Dee screams in her cockatoo lilt. Zoe has me in a light embrace and she rolls her eyes, punctuated with, “Oi, we are not Muuuuuuuuum! Passs meeeee the vegan aioli.” “This whole time, I always wondered why she didn’t bring any boyfriends home. And now I know! She was secretly a big filthy dyke!!” Dee laughs at herself. “Have you even thought about how you’re gonna have babies?” “We’re gonna use Matt’s sperm!” my girlfriend says, without looking up from her phone. She has no shame. “You can’t have sex with your own brother!” “NO, like Niamh is gonna use Matt’s sperm to pop out a kid!!!” “What makes you think Matt is gonna want to give you his sperm? He’ll probably be too busy making passionate love, with some woman…”. Dee trails off and stares into middle distance, fumbling with her Scrabble letters. I’m a little offended at Dee’s insinuation that mine and Zoe’s lovemaking isn’t just as wetly passionate.
The sex I have with other women isn’t sanitised, whimsical or a porcelain stage production. Lesbian sex is corpulent, ardent, fleshy, bloody, bile inducing, and debaucherously dirty, and you probably wouldn’t like to see it. Until explicit instructions become tattooed on newborn’s eyelids under my nightmare dictatorship, I hope that all people come to know this. I don’t think the intense pleasure that can be had without reliance on a penis should be the exclusive possession of filthy dykes like me.
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NSP OUTLETS PRIMARY Northwest Youth and Family Focus Inc 62 Stewart Street Devonport Anglicare 6 Strahan Street Burnie South Jordan River Services Inc. 6 Bowden Drive Bridgewater Anglicare 436 Main Road Glenorchy
South The Link 57 Liverpool Street Hobart Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre 56 Patrick Street Hobart Jordan River Services - Gagebrook Community Centre 191 Lamprill Circuit Gagebrook Tasmanian Council on Aids, Hepatitis and Related Diseases 319 Liverpool Street Hobart North
Anglicare 18 Watchorn Street Hobart
Cape Barren Community Health Centre 5 Everett Court Cape Barren Island
Clarence Community Health Centre 18-22 Bayfield Street Rosny
Flinders Island Multi-Purpose Centre James Street Flinders Island
North
Flinders Island Aboriginal Association Inc 16 West Street Lady Barron
Salvation Army 111 Elizabeth Street Launceston
Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre 182 Charles Street Launceston
SECONDARY
Ravenswood Community Health Centre 39-41 Lambert Street Ravenswood
Northwest
St Helens District Hospital 10 Annie Street St Helens
Burnie Community House 24 Wiseman Street Burnie North West Regional Hospital 23 Brickport Road Burnie King Island District Hospital and Health Centre 35 Edwards Street Currie Devonport Community Health Centre 23 Steele Street Devonport
VENDING MACHINES Northwest 40-48 Best Street, Devonport Ground level, Multi-level carpark South
Rosebery Community Hospital Hospital Road Rosebery
Anglicare 18 Watchorn Street Hobart
Smithton District Hospital 74 Brittons Road Smithton
Invermay Local Post Office 52 Invermay Road Invermay
Wyndarra Centre Inc. 43 Smith Street Smithton
Salvation Army 111 Elizabeth Street Launceston
North
Youngtown Pharmacy 369 Hobart Road Youngtown
These NSP locations have been reproduced from the DHHS webpage.
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NSP PHARMACIES NORTH
SOUTH
West Tamar Pharmacy, Beaconsfield Bicheno Pharmacy, Bicheno Bridport Pharmacy, Bridport Healthpoint Pharmacy, Campbell Town Amcal Pharmacy, Deloraine George Town Pharmacy Capital Chemist, King Meadows Priceline Pharmacy, Launceston Amcal Pharmacy, Legana Chemmart Pharmacy, Longford Longford Pharmacy, Longford Capital Chemist, Mowbray Heights Capital Chemist, Newstead Chemmart Pharmacy, Ravenswood Galloway’s Pharmacy, Scottsdale St Helens Pharmacy, St Helens St Marys Pharmacy, St Marys Westbury Pharmacy, Westbury Young Town Pharmacy, Young Town
Bellerive Quay Pharmacy, Bellerive Rhys Jones Pharmacy, Bellerive Priceline Pharmacy, Bridgewater Brighton Pharmacy, Brighton Bruny Island Pharmacy, Bruny Island Chigwell Pharmacy, Chigwell Claremont Pharmacy, Claremont Derwent Park Pharmacy, Derwent Park Chemmart Pharmacy, Dodges Ferry Dover Pharmacy, Dover Geeveston Pharmacy, Geeveston Elizabeth Hope Priceline, Glenorchy Central Advantage Pharmacy, Glenorchy Priceline Pharmacy, Hobart Mall Davey St. Discount Pharmacy, Hobart Your Hobart Chemist, Hobart Shoreline Amcal Pharmacy, Howrah Wentworth Pharmacy, Howrah Huonville Pharmacy, Huonville Priceline Pharmacy, Kingston Terry White Chemist, Kingston Chemist Outlet, Kingston Kingborough Medical Centre Pharmacy Lauderdale Pharmacy, Lauderdale Amcal Pharmacy, Lenah Valley Village Chemmart, Lindisfarne Rosetta Pharmacy, Montrose Amcal Max Pharmacy, Moonah Amcal Community Pharmacy, New Norfolk New Norfolk Pharmacy, New Norfolk Friendly Care Chemmart, New Town Amcal Pharmacy, North Hobart Tasman Pharmacy, Nubeena Risdon Vale Pharmacy, Rison Vale Eastlands Priceline Pharmacy, Rosny Park Discount Pharmacy, Sandy Bay Magnet Court Chemmart, Sandy Bay Healthpoint Pharmacy, Snug Chemmart Pharmacy, Sorell Chemist Warehouse, Sorell Sorell Plaza Pharmacy, Sorell South Arm Community Pharmacy, South Arm Capital Chemist, South Hobart Swansea Pharmacy, Swansea Triabunna Pharmacy, Triabunna Warrane Pharmacy, Warrane Amcal Pharmacy, West Hobart
NORTH WEST Bolands Pharmacy, Burnie Pharmacy One, Burnie Wilkinson’s Pharmacy, Burnie Chemmart Pharmacy, Upper Burnie Healthpoint Pharmacy, Burnie King Island Pharmacy, Currie Mersey Pharmacy, East Devonport Coventry’s Pharmacy, Latrobe Penguin Pharmacy, Penguin Turnbull’s Pharmacy, Sheffield Smithton Pharmacy, Smithton Somerset Pharmacy, Somerset Strahan Pharmacy, Strahan Priceline Pharmacy, Ulverstone Peter Thompson’s Pharmacy, Ulverstone Westside Pharmacy, Ulverstone Dixon’s Pharmacy, Wynyard Healthpoint Pharmacy, Wynyard Zeehan Pharmacy, Zeehan
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SERVICES ATTITUDE COUNSELLING
WORKING IT OUT
Attitudecounselling.com Ph 0499 184 088 (Launceston)
www.workingitout.org.au
Affordable, confidential
Q-LIFE, NATIONAL www.qlife.org.au Ph 1800 184 527 Counselling 7 days 3.00 pm til midnight
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TASMANIA https://equalopportunity.tas.gov.au Ph 1300 305 062 The office of the anti-discrimination commissioner
GAY & LESBIAN SWITCHBOARD www.switchboard.org.au Ph 1800 184 527 Counselling and referrals
SCARLET ALLIANCE TASMANIAN SEX WORKER OUTREACH PROJECT outreachtas@scarletalliance.org.au Ph 0451 835 897 www.scarletalliance.org.au
SEX WORKER OUTREACH PROJECT (SWOP)
Sexuality and gender support and counselling
SEXUAL HEALTH SERVICE http://www.dhhs.tas.gov.au/sexualhealth Toll Free: 1800 675 859 Clinic 60 - 60 Collins St Hobart Ph 03 6166 2672 Mon – Fri 8:30 am – 4:30 pm (drop in on Tuesday afternoon and Thursday mornings) Clinic 34 - 34 Howick St Launceston Ph 03 6777 1371 Mon – Fri 8:30 am – 4:30 pm (drop in on Thursday mornings) Devonport - Ph 03 6777 1371 by appointment only Counselling, support, referrals, STI/HIV testing and PrEP prescriptions
TASCAHRD - TASMANIAN COUNCIL ON AIDS, HEPATITIS & RELATED DISEASES www.redthread.org.au Ph 1800 005 900
TAS POLICE LGBTIQ LIAISON OFFICERS
Resources for sex workers, including cis male and transgender sex workers
www.police.tas.gov.au Ph 03 6230 2111 (Hobart) Ph 03 6336 7000 (Launceston) Ph 03 6434 5211 (North West)
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN SEX INDUSTRY NETWORK
ATDC TAS – THE ALCOHOL, TOBACCO & OTHER DRUGS COUNCIL OF TASMANIA
www.swop.org.au
http://www.sin.org.au/SINmale Outreach, peer education, information, referrals, support, advocacy, working tips, resources and safer sex supplies to all male workers
TASPRIDE www.taspride.com Celebrating and uniting the Tasmanian LGBTIQQ community
http://www.atdc.org.au/ Advocating and initiatives
NUFIT GLENORCHY (ANGLICARE NSP) 436 Main Rd Glenorchy | Ph 1800 243 232 Mon – Fri 10:00 am – 4:30 pm Sterile equipment, information, education, support and referrals
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DIRECTORY ANGLICARE NEEDLE & SYRINGE EXCHANGE PROGRAMME 18 Watchorn St, Hobart | Ph 1800 243 232 Mon – Fri 12.30 am – 4.30 pm 24 hr vending machine ($2 fee)
SALVATION ARMY NEEDLE & SYRINGE EXCHANGE PROGRAMME 111 Elizabeth St Launceston | Ph 03 6323 7500 Mon – Fri 8:30 am – 3:00 pm
THE LINK YOUTH HEALTH SERVICE & HEAD SPACE FOR PEOPLE AGED 12-24 http://www.thelink.org.au 57 Liverpool St Hobart | Ph 03 6231 2927 Mon – Fri 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Counselling, outreach, case management, support for mental and sexual health, alcohol and drugs (incl NSP), family planning
HOBART COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICE www.hobartlegal.org 166 Macquarie Street, Hobart | Ph 03 6223 2500 7 Station Lane, Sorell | Ph 03 6265 1911 Shop 3, Covehill Fair, Bridgewater Ph 03 6263 4755
FLAMINGOS DANCE BAR www.flamingosbar.com Tasmania’s nightclub committed to providing a tolerant, safe, informative and fun environment for people of alternative sexualities and their friends to be able to enjoy themselves and socialise in a non-threatening environment
EAST COAST QUEER LIFE SUPPORT (ECQLS) Email ecqls.tas@gmail.com Ph 0467 000 748 Information and social activities
SENSUAL POTENTIAL RICHELLE MENZIES richelle@sensualpotential.com.au www.sensualpotential.com.au Ph 0408 843 221 Sexologist offering relationship and sexuality education and counselling
FAMILY PLANNING TASMANIA http://www.fpt.asn.au 421 Main Rd Glenorchy Ph 03 6273 9117 | Mon - Fri 9:00 am – 5.00 pm 269 Wellington St Launceston Ph 03 6343 4566 | Mon - Fri 9:00 am – 5.00 pm 1 Pine Ave Burnie Ph 03 6431 7692 (Mon, Wed and Thurs) Contraception and pregnancy counselling, sexual health checks, pap smears, information and referral
GAY FRIENDLY CAFES Basket & Green Cafe Bozzey Criterion Cafe Deloraine Deli DS Coffee House Fitzpatrick’s Inn Fleurty’s Cafe Lotus Eaters Ginger Brown Hamlet Hotel SOHO Jackman & McCross Kusinat Lansdowne Cafe Lebrina
Machine Laundry Cafe O’Keefe’s Hotel Pickled Evenings Indian Restaurant Red Velvet Lounge Republic Bar Restaurant Red Restaurant Waterloo Retro Café Stonies Fifties Cafe Straight Up Coffee & Food Tasmania Inn
PREP SAVVY GPS Dr Jennifer Mission -Sandy Bay Clinic 279 Sandy Bay Road | Ph 62236822 Book online at www.sandybayclinic.com.au Dr Natasha Lovatt - Aboriginal Health Service 56 Patrick Street | Ph 6234 0777 and Eastern Shore Doctors – Bellerive 48 Cambridge Road | Ph 6282 1399 Dr Denys Volkovets George Town Medical Centre 49 Anne Street | Ph 6382 4333 Dr Wole Olomola City Medical Practice 10 Marine Terrace Burnie Dr Jane Cooper Don Medical Clinic Shop 7 / 48-54 Oldaker Street | Ph 6441 5299 Dr Mark Ryan Newdegate St Medical Clinic 107 Newdegate St West Hobart | Ph 62314109 Red thread Magazine - Autumn 2020
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Support to stay at home
A free and friendly LGBTI community service to help you navigate the aged care system Are you an LGBTI community member, or do you support someone who is? Do you need information about your options for aged care services at home? Do you want to know about residential aged care services? Do you support an older person who might need aged care services? •
Ask about a group information session on the aged care system and how it works
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Receive LGBTI-specific information and support from a WIO staff member or peer support volunteer (by phone or in person)
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Get user-friendly resources (printed and online) to help you find out how to get the support you need. Call Working It Out on
(03) 6231 1200 or email info@workingitout.org.au
Supported by the Australian Government Department of Health.
Aged Care Navigators Trial
