Thu 4 – Thu 11 Feb
hear & queer STORIES OF TASMANIAN YOUTH
Working It Out & Edge Radio I don't know how I d id it but I picked a name from a book off the shelf and I never looked back. How did I personally know? Because when people started calling me Sir, I smiled. When I put on a binder for the first time and saw my chest flat, I finally felt comfortable in my own body. And after all these years, I can't really imagine myself as a girl anymore...
The biggest thing I get is people telling me I can't be a lesbian be cause I don't look like one. And that's because I have quite long hair and I dress quite femininely. But how you look has nothing to do with your sexual orientation at all. That's just based on stereotypes.
I remember when I first came out to my parents. It was like 9 o'clock and I was already in bed, and I got up thinking, 'I'm going to have to tell them. I'm going to have to tell them I like men.'Um... and I did. My parents were watching TV in the lounge room and I was like, 'Mum and Dad, I'm gay.' And they were like, 'OK, we already knew. Go back to bed. We've seen your internet history.'
HEAR & QUEER PODCAST BROADCAST - Episode 5 Emma
- Episode 1 J
- Episode 3 Cole
get involved or listen to the podcast by visiting www.hearqueertas.com
Throughout Pride week on Edge Radio 99.3 FM Every day 4 – 11 February | 12:00 Reservations Contact Limitations Hear & Queer is a podcast telling the stories of LGBTI+ young people living in Tasmania. It is produced by a steering committee made up of LGBTI+ young people and staff from Working It Out, Tasmania’s gender, sexuality and intersex status support and education service. Hear & Queer is supported by an FRRR ABC Heywire Youth Innovation Grant.
For bookings and COVID information see TasPride.com - Bookings essential even for free events.
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