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Counselling Service, HCC - Allied Health
Non-profit organisation with a focus on the wellbeing of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex communities. Provides services throughout Queensland and Northern NSW including: peer telephone counselling, community and social information and referral to Community Health and Support Services. Online counselling is also being trialled on their website during these times.
Confidential, Fortitude Valley, QLD
Confidential, Fortitude Valley, QLD
Monday PM - AM
Tuesday PM - AM
Wednesday PM - AM
Thursday PM - AM
Friday PM - AM
Saturday PM - AM
Sunday PM - AM
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By Christoffer Aguilar
LGBTQI+ Australians continue to face obstacles to the complete realisation of their human rights. One major obstacle is the practice of ‘conversion therapy,’ which emerged in Australia in the ’s and continues to injury the physical and mental health of LGTBQI+ Australians.
In August , Queensland (‘Qld’) and Australian Capital Territory (‘ACT’) passed laws banning conversion therapy, offering optimism to LGBTQI+ Australians in these states.
Then, in November , after broad consultation, the Victorian Government introduced a Bill to outlaw LGBTQ+ conversion practices. Support groups welcomed the move, with Equality Australia describing the Bill’s mechanisms to prevent harm and penalise perpetrators as “world leading”.
It is worth understanding how these bans would impact the LGBTQI+ community and influence other states to ban the practice, which could lead to a national ban. But first, what does conversion therapy encompass and what are the justifications behind its promotion and use?
Conversion therapy and its effects
Conversion therapy is a pseudoscientifi
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Homosexuality wasn't decriminalised in Queensland until , but the state has a long and rich queer history
Late at night on the banks of the Brisbane River, two young men settled on a spot between a Moreton Bay fig and a fence.
It was The teens had nowhere else to go and thought nobody could see them.
The liaison was short lived. A harsh light ripped away the darkness like a bed sheet. It was a policeman's torch.
"They thought we were trying to smash into the milk factory," Bill Rutkin says with a chuckle.
"When they worked out we were both gay men and probably about to commit an offence, they just gave us a good thumping and told us to go and see a psychiatrist."
Now 72, Mr Rutkin shrugs off the beating as a "common occurrence" during Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen's reign as Queensland's premier.
"Violence was part and parcel," he says.
He describes how police commonly used "entrapment" methods to verb arrests.
"Some attractive young constable in plain clothes would go into the toilets and exp