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Out For Australia: Queensland Universities Diversity Network Panel

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The UQ Pride Alliance is a founding member of the Out For Australia Queensland Universities Diversity Network!

The aim of OFA’s student outreach program is to build strong leaders who represent student and staff networks, encourage collaborative events and campaigns between universities and create stronger ties with the wider LGBTIQ+ community in Queensland.

The focus for this forum is on university staff engagement and tracking development of university services for LGBTIQAP+ students.

The forum will be held at:

G03 Lecture Theatre 1
Gold Coast Campus
Parklands Drive, Southport

The event will also be live streamed via YouTube with videoconference connection to network leaders across all Queensland universities.

There will be a forum panel with student and staff leaders and community representatives with Q&A options from the audience. You will also have opportunity to network with special guest speakers and panelists on the night. Canapés and light refreshments will also be available.

Finally, please meet Lucas Medcraft (QLD Outreach Coordinator) and Kathryn Cramp (QLD Women’s Coordinator) who talk more about the establishment of the network via the link below!

Click here:
https://www.facebook.com/OutforAustralia/videos/510370385813801

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Save YEAH!: Fund Safe Sex Programs

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Sign the petition!

https://www.change.org/p/sussan-ley-save-yeah-australia-s-only-youth-led-sexual-health-education-organisation

Youth Empowerment Against HIV/AIDS (YEAH), Australia’s only National youth led sexual health promotion organisation has been defunded by the Federal Government.

Why at a time when young people’s STI rates are rising and condom use is declining, would the Federal Government take money away from young people trying to lead the change they desperately need in their sexual health education and culture?

Given over 75% of STIs are occurring amongst young people, the decision by the Government to defund YEAH is nothing less than outrageous; why throw away all that has been achieved by over 7 years of Community and Commonwealth investment in building a highly successful grassroots youth organisation.

The Agents of YEAH program, a national network of young volunteers, work tirelessly in their local communities to improve sexual health knowledge and health outcomes amongst their peers.

It is such a counter productive message to send to young leaders volunteering to be promoters of accurate, inclusive, age appropriate and youth friendly sexual health education that suddenly their efforts to improve the disastrous state of sexual health education is not valued.

They need your support.

Together we can send a strong message to the Health Minister, and the Federal Government, that youth leadership and empowerment is vital to build and sustain a positive sexual health culture that addresses gaps in access to critical sexual health information and promotes safe, healthy and respectful relationships in Australia.

Will you sign on?

https://www.change.org/p/sussan-ley-save-yeah-australia-s-only-youth-led-sexual-health-education-organisation

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Support Safe Schools!

The Safe Schools Coalition is a fantastic program designed to make schools more inclusive and queer friendly and to prevent discrimination. It was implemented under the Gillard government and sustained under Abbott, however, Malcolm Turnbull has now announced that it has cut federal funding.

The Greens, Labor and members of the crossbench support federal funding of the program and we have seen the ACT and Victorian Labor state governments commit to fully fund the program using state funding.

Please email your MPs and state Senators today because other groups have been lobbying hard to get the program scrapped.

See below for the rally organised by Equal Love featuring one of our executive as speaker!

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Who is the UQ Pride Alliance?

The UQ Pride Alliance is your connection to queer PALs at UQ!

We are a student club that runs events, campaigns, addresses discrimination, and keeps you up to date with LGBTIQA issues on campus, in Brisbane, in Australia and around the world.

Our club aims are:

  1. To provide a social group for LGBTIQA UQ students and allies;
  2. To promote inclusive attitudes and to educate the wider community on queer issues; and
  3. To engage in, and improve support for, queer students through advocacy, community liaison, and activism.

We will achieve these aims through social events, fundraisers, awareness campaigns, providing educational materials, liaising and cooperating with other queer and health organisations, and ensuring the involvement and representation of the needs of all queer groups through diversity in leadership.

Our executive team includes representatives from the full rainbow spectrum including lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, queer and asexual.

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