Showing posts with label pride month. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pride month. Show all posts

Thursday, June 20, 2024

Queer Elders 'Flourishing, Fighting and Found-family'

 Queer Elders

'Flourishing, Fighting and Found-family'

Preservation and proliferation in the face of oppression

                                  Attribution: SBS Australia

When: June 18th, 2024

Where: Azure Beach Library


Come join us for a day of involved conversation with Queer Elders within the Azure Beach community!
Azure Beach is hosting a Human Library event under the banner of pride month! As such, we've chosen to highlight the lived experiences of the older queer members of our community.
Queer members of local communities are often under-represented in examinations of local history, largely owing to the oppressive and violent nature of this history. Because of this there's often a large emphasis on the progress that's been made, rather than the circumstances that called for change, and how those oppressed by them instigated that very change.
Azure Beach has scouted local Queer Elders within the community, and invite you to come and speak with them, learn from their experiences and examine the parallels between their lives and those of queer people today.
We actively encourage younger queer members of our community to attend, learn the history of both the queer and local community, and make connections with elders who you might otherwise never meet. 
No tickets are required, however we do encourage you to RSVP on the below google form, as numbers are limited.
RSVP form
We hope to see you there!
Orla O'Connor,
Azure Beach Library.




Sunday, June 4, 2023

Where Pride Began: Meet the 78ers!

"Out of the bars, into the streets!" 


When: Saturday 17 February 2024
Where: Azure Beach Public Library – Azure Room
Time: 10:00am – 5:00pm 
Cost: Free

Sunday, November 27, 2022

Dive Into The Rainbow - Human Libraries Event

 

                           photo from SBS:https://www.sbs.com.au/topics/pride/agenda/article/2018/06/11/new-progress-pride-flag-design-gaining-steam-online

Dive Into The Rainbow: A Human Libraries Event


When: 16th of June 2023, 10am-3pm
Where: Azure Beach Library
Book Now by calling (02) 4000 4545 or email SH at s.h@azurebeachlib.gov.au

In celebration of Pride Month (June), Azure Beach invites you to join us for our Human Libraries Event. To celebrate our vast and diverse community and to bring awareness towards a community in need of support, we have four volunteers for this library event, each discussing what being LGBTQ means to them. 

The LGBTQ+ Community:

Discrimination towards the LGBTQ+ community is as present within our world as ever before. With Two-thirds (64%) of LGBTQ+ people had experienced anti-LGBT+ violence or abuse. 
(stats taken from https://www.stonewall.org.uk/lgbtq-facts-and-figures)

What is a Human Library?

The Human Library are a international organisation which aims to help people meet and talk to other people they wouldn't normally met and to dismantle prejudices. you can find more at: https://humanlibrary.org/ 


Meet The Books:


Samuel (He/Him)

Bisexual

"When i discovered the term 'bisexual' i finally felt free"

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Bowie (They/Them)

Non Binary

"i finally found a community i feel seen and appreciated within"

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Scarlet (She/They)

Asexual 

"I always thought something was wrong with me. but then i found the term 'Asexuality'"

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Jamie (He/Him)

Transgender

"I want to make the world a safer place for LGBTQ people"

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Our 'books' will be available for 15/20 minutes.  

- S. Harris

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