Andrew Barr is calling for nominees to the increasingly awkwardly named ACT Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) Community Advisory Council:
The ACT Government is committed to Canberra as a socially and culturally inclusive community that celebrates its diversity and supports LGBTI Canberrans.
The Council provides an opportunity to discuss and provide advice to government on its policies, programs, services and processes. It will make recommendations to the ACT Government on current and emerging issues affecting LGBTI people.
Members will be selected for their expertise and experience in issues affecting the LGBTI community and their networks. Nominations are invited from both individuals and people representing organisations associated with LGBTI groups.
To find out more email communitypolicy@act.gov.au .
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Will he also call for nominees for the ACT Heterosexual Community Advisory Council? Oh wait, there isn’t one…
We are doomed to blundering through life advice free.
Awkardly?
Awkward spelling, what?
Pork Hunt said :
Fairly sure that the hetrosexual community doesn’t have to cope with the bigotry, discrimination and inequality that the LGBT folk do. Hence the need for an Advisory Council.
Nice of you to spell it out Poetix
Is that not what the legislative assembly is for? Barr one?
If you get on the Queer Council, do you get to put QC after your name?
ScienceRules said :
Give it time.
Dork said :
Hey, it Rhymes, that’s almost Poetix !
Will they also elect a queen to lead the council? That might turn into a cat fight..
The queer community is affluent and privileged socio-economically, exceptionally well networked, and already highly influential. We don’t need this. Who is paying?
Ben_Dover said :
Is that a community which advises? Or is it a group which advises the community? Or a community which advises the community?
Isn’t this idea of “community” getting worked to death these days?> The smoking community,. the hunting community, the law breaking community. Any bloody disparate group gets given the monica* “community” today, just lazy bloody thinking by the political crowd.
Let them have their little get together for goodness sake, we don’t need handbags at dawn over it. As long as they self fund of course.
* monica = Monica James (was a writer) and it rhymes with “names.” It is usual in Cockney slang to use only the first half of the couplet… hence “Put yer monica ‘ere.” means sign your names.
Ben_Dover said :
+1. It will just be another lobby group that the majority ignores. No reason for anyone to get scared back to their natural hair colour.
There was a huge amount of reaserch put into various LGBTIQ projects including this one, believe me, it is nesiscary.
poetix said :
Make awkward sexual advances, NOT WAR!
bd84 said :
With a few of them it could turn into a Queens’ Council!
So many puns, so little time…
Ben_Dover said :
I think it’s a group of gays who advise about the Community.
Think of it as a kind of Queer Eye for the Bogan Guy.
Masquara said :
Those of us who are able to differentiate between the real world and an episode of Will and Grace, as well as those who are familiar with the frightening rates of suicide amongst LGBTI youth, know better.
screaming banshee said :
What do you mean by this? Are you really suggesting that working to provide equality and freedom from violence for the LGBT community will in some way threaten your hitherto priveliged existance?
How can providing the same rights and protections to gays in any way diminish straight people’s rights (except perhaps to be bigoted arses in some cases)?
P.S. I’m not suggesting that you are bigoted, just that your comment really needs further explaination.
Aeek said :
No, it doesn’t! It puns, but not in a particularly nice way, unlike every single one of poetix’s comments ever.
ScienceRules said :
Now I’m confused. What rights and protections do gays currently not have?
They have the right not to be referred to as “queer” for a start.
Masquara said :
Regardless of the benefits or otherwise of this Council, we, the taxpayers of Canberra, will.
pommyb said :
And I have the right not to be referred to as as an anglo, as a skippy, or as a breeder. But I don’t get offended by it, even though in my case the last is a capability rather than an actuality.
Some people actually identify as queer actually, and get offended when they are referred to as anything else.
pommyb said :
Unless they choose to self identify as queer,m then you’re a homophobe for denying them the right to be called a queer, unless they don’t want to be called queer, or not, sometimes, but not others, by the right people, or something.
screaming banshee said :
Please clarify. Do you mean that the heterosexual community will get an Advisory Council soon, or that they will be as discriminated and bigoted against as the GLBTI community?
If the latter, this seems…well, let’s just go with ‘unlikely’.
What’s wrong with the word queer? I though that was the one word you were allowed to call them…. queer people call themselves queer even…. argh it’s too much effort trying to keep up with what offends people and what doesn’t offend people these days.
Masquara said :
This is not accurate. And if this is what people believe, then some education and awareness raising should happen. In other words, you do need this.
Solidarity said :
If you stand on a corner in Harlem, there’s a word you’ll hear a lot of people calling themselves and each other. You would be ill-advised to try to use it yourself.
Solidarity said :
I don’t think we are the ones having trouble keeping up, Solidarity.
FGC said :
Um, that’s more like using the word faggot.