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QUEER – The 17th Australian Homosexual Conference, November 2017 – REGISTRATIONS OPEN

25 September 2017

REGISTRATIONS NOW OPEN! PROGRAM NOW AVAILABLE http://ahhc.com.au/

This annual conference brings together members of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Intersex Queer+ communities, academics, researchers, students, community members and arts workers to explore and discuss histories of LGBTIQ+ life, politics, arts and culture.

WHAT IS QUEER

Some people use queer as an umbrella term for LGBTI+ while others use it to refer to identities that can’t be contained by categories such as gay and lesbian. In both cases, queer is used as a noun that has been reclaimed from its former use as an abusive term.

Queer is also used as a verb: ‘to queer’. Queer/ing is a way of making ideas and ideals that are largely taken for granted, strange; of turning them on their heads, of undermining their authority.

So, for example, we could argue that male and female should be matters of self-determination rather than biology, or we could queer the idea of binary gender. Or we could argue for the right of queer people to marry, but we could also queer the institution of marriage.

FULL PROGRAM AVAILABLE 1 NOVEMBER 2017