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GLWA
Online - Brisbane
(http://www.glwa.org.au/)
WALKSAFE www.walksafe.org
Walksafe provides the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) communities in Queensland Australia with information about how to report any level of violence, harassment, threats and verbal abuse towards someone’s sexuality or gender identity
 
VICTIMS COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT SERVICE
The Victims Counselling and Support Service, provided by Relationships Australia, can help victims of crime to understand and recover from the affects of crime.
The service is free and offers a 24 hour telephone referral service and information line, as well as counselling, support and information, all of which are available in Townsville and Thuringowa.
For more information or to book an appointment, please call 1300 139 703 or check out the website www.vcss.org.au
COLOURS
(http://www.colours.org.au)
Colour Star Inc is a non-profit GLBT community
club based in Townsville
Grrlzone
http://www.grrlzone.org.au/political.html
or http://www.grrlzone.org.au/
Qld Health Youth
Site
(http://www.istaysafe.com)
Open Doors
Youth Service Inc
(http://www.opendoors.net.au)
Queensland
Aids Council
(http://www.quac.org.au)
NORTH QUEENSLAND DOMESTIC
VIOLENCE RESOURCE SERVICE
North Town Arcade, Flinders Mall
Phone: 4721 2888
Mogenic
(http://www.mogenic.com)
AUSTRALIAN
COALITION FOR EQUALITY (ACE)
Australia has new national voice for lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgendered and intersex (LGBTI) people with the launch on Saturday
13 August 2005. ACE has established a website at http://www.coalitionforequality.org.au
with fact sheets on the many areas of
law that discriminate against same-sex couples and their families.
The website will act as a central source of lobbying information
for Australia's LGBTI community and its supporters.
Link for THE AUSTRALIA INSTUTE REPORT
ON HOMOPHOBIA is http://www.tai.org.au/Publications_Files/Papers&Sub_Files/Homophobia%20webpaper%20Final.pdf
The survey was conducted with 24,718 people over 14 years across
all states & territories. Qld & Tas were the most homophobic
states, even higher in regional & rural areas of Qld.
Queensland
Police Service
(http://www.police.qld.gov.au/pr/default.htm)
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LINKS
SSAFE
in Schools
(http://www.ssafeschools.org.au/) - SSAFE
in Schools, a project of Family Planning Victoria and the
Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at
LaTrobe University, aims to support school communities in
challenging homophobia and creating safe learning environments
for same-sex attracted and gender non-conforming students.
This website is for anyone in the school community looking
for resources, strategies and activities to support curriculum
development, teacher training, provision of information
to parents and the broader community and support for individual
students.
Learn
to Include website - (www.hotkey.net.au/~learn_to_include)
This site features all 4 books and a
PDF of the 34 page Teacher's Manual - so anyone who wants
to use the lesson plans or activity sheets can just download
them.
The
NUS National Queer Department has launched a
campaign to urge State Education Minister's to quickly
address the issue of Queerphobia in Australian schools. Go
to the following link to read about the campaign and to send
a letter to your State Education Minister.
http://www.unistudent.com/campaigns/Queer/news/1122597921_13425.html
Educational Institutions, whether they be primary schools,
high schools or universities are meant to be safe and supportive
environments for young people, but the reality is for queer
students they're not. Queerphobia is widespread in Schools
across the
Nation, making the environments threatening, frightening and
often dangerous for young queer students. It's time our respective
State Governments take this issue seriously, by engaging with
the issue and committing their time to addressing the issue
not only
in schools but in the wider community as well. Our schools
and Educators should be teaching our young people to foster
values such as trust, mutual respect,
courage, compassion, honesty, courtesy and most importantly
acceptance of difference, with these values taught at school
coupled with effective strategies to combat queerphobia, our
schools will evolve to open and compassionate environments.
It is
with these strategies that schools will no longer be places
of fear for queer students, leading to reduction in queer
drop out rates, reductions in verbal and physical abuse and
hopefully the reduction of the alarming rates of suicide in
queer young people.
If you know of any important
websites that would be helpful in addressing homophobia or
providing support please contact us by email.
Thanks
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