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SUMMARY:IDAHOBIT 2025 – Window Display Competition Entry Macedon Ranges
DESCRIPTION:We’re proud to take part in Sunbury and Cobaw Community Health’s IDAHOBIT Window Display Competition\, standing in solidarity with LGBTQIA+ communities across the Macedon Ranges and beyond. \nIDAHOBIT—the International Day Against Homophobia\, Biphobia\, Intersex Discrimination and Transphobia—is held every year on May 17. It’s a day to raise awareness\, spark conversations\, and take a stand against discrimination in all its forms. Now also known as the Day Against LGBTQIA+ Discrimination\, it affirms the importance of inclusion for lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, transgender\, intersex\, queer\, asexual and other diverse identities. \nAt HMS Community\, we’re committed to:\n🟣 Welcoming people of all genders\, sexual orientations\, backgrounds\, and abilities.\n🟣 Partnering with LGBTI+ organisations to ensure respectful and informed support.\n🟣 Promoting inclusive care through policy\, practice\, and lived experience—including within our leadership. \nOur display is a public commitment to equity\, inclusion\, and dignity for all. \nThanks to Sunbury and Cobaw Community Health for creating space to celebrate visibility and allyship in our region.
URL:https://may17.org/event/idahobit-2025-window-display-competition-entry-macedon-ranges/
LOCATION:HMS Community\, 2/18\, Gisborne\, VIC\, 3071\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Awareness activity,Art or creative expression
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SUMMARY:Communion
DESCRIPTION:Communion or Queer Communion is a project dedicated to remembering and celebrating the lives of marginalised queer people who were murdered for living as themselves. The project is a rejection of the attempts to dismiss\, defile or simply erase LGBTQIA+ people. It started from a need to process on a personal level the emotional impact of news reports of hate crime murders that became increasingly frequent during the Covid pandemic. It has continued in part because of the engagement of those in the community who have reacted positively and encouraged me to continue. \nI believe that hate crime and the manner in which authority and society respond to it act to create an environment of fear\, as well as the sense that LGBTQIA+ lives are disposable and shameful. In spite of this queer people continue to live openly in defiance of attempts to control or police them into compliance. The works are meant to celebrate the simultaneously incandescent and ordinary lives that have been lost\, as well as mourning\, they also are a refusal of the tendency to place the inflicted pain\, death and violence at the centre of how we remember them.  \nThe project is also about visibility\, asking us who is deserving of commemoration and who we are content to erase\, sweep under the carpet. Many of these were create using photographs that were blurry or overly cropped\, and in some sense the accessibilty of photographs has dictated the choice of portraits.  \nThe project consists of a series of portraits that evoke a sense of the sacred through references to spiritual iconography to create spaces for contemplation and stillness. There are currently three forms of the project that are ongoing.  \nAn installation consisting of a 14 sided metal framework that holds 13 portraits that are hand painted on cast acrylic sheeting and act in a similar way to stained glass windows\, was first exhibited at the Spier Light Art Festival in 2021\, and later at the Kopano gathering.  This installation included portaits of Nonhlanhla Kunene; Sphamandla Khoza; Motshidi Pascalina (Pasca); Kirvan Fortuin; Sam Mbatha; Buhle Poswa; Lindokuhle Mapu; Nare Mphela; Bonang Gaelae; Lonwabo Jack; Phelokazi Mqathana; Lindokuhle Cele; Liyabona Mabishi. \nA series of watercolour paintings on paper that aim to act as a commemorative archive. The watercolour paintings allow for a more responsive archive and will continue to evolve and grow in response to the environment as much as is possible.
URL:https://may17.org/event/2025-communion/
LOCATION:Seth Deacon Art Studios\, 66 Albert Road\, Woodstock\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 7925\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Community gathering,Awareness activity,Art or creative expression
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SUMMARY:Why we need to talk about queer displacement on IDAHOBIT
DESCRIPTION:In this episode of the Center for Migration\, Gender\, and Justice’s Conversation Series\, “Gender Justice Beyond Borders\,” Dr. Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi (Founder and Executive Director of the Center) and Francois Zankih\, Founder of the Guardians of Equality Movement\, the first Syrian LGBTQIA+ organization\, will discuss why we need to talk about queer displacement on the International Day Against Homophobia\, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT). \nStructured in a conversation style with open Q&A\, this LinkedIn audio live event offers participants an opportunity to engage with experts on the topic as we reflect on the importance of raising awareness around the discrimination and violence faced by LGBTQIA+ individuals worldwide.
URL:https://may17.org/event/why-we-need-to-talk-about-queer-displacement-on-idahobit/
CATEGORIES:Awareness activity
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