The Secret History of Atralia's Gay Diggers | SBS Voic

Contents:

• THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS
• THE GAY UKRAIANS 'HUNTED' BY RSIAN SOLDIERS AND THE ALLI HELPG THEM PEA YEAR SCE RSIA'S LATT VASN OF UKRAE, ALLEGATNS PERSIST OF LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE BEG TARGETED OCCUPIED AREAS. FRIENDS MARIANNA POLEVIKOVA AND RENEE DIXSON ARE OFFERG MEMBERS OF THE MUNY A LIFELE.PUBLISHED 22 FEBARY 2023 7:57AMBY SANDRA FULLOON, LERA SHVETSSOURCE: SBS NEWSIMAGE: RENEE DIXSON (LEFT) AND MARIANNA POLEVIKOVA CANBERRA. (SBS NEWS / KEV HUDSON)CONTENT WARNG: THIS ARTICLE NTAS REFERENC TO SEXUAL ASSLT AND SUICI.IT WAS 13 MAY WHEN UKRAIANS SVLANA AND KATERYNA* SAID THREE ARMED RSIAN SOLDIERS BURST TO THE SMALL ABANDONED HOE WHERE THEY HAD BEEN LIVG. “ONE OF THEM FELY HAD A GUN,” SVLANA SAID. “THEY SAW OUR DISASSEMBLED BED, ON WHICH WE SLEEP, AND ONE OF THE SOLDIERS ASKED , ‘WHAT ARE YOU, THOSE 'PKS'?”THE LBIAN UPLE HAD MOVED OM THE UKRAIAN CY OF KHERSON TO THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE TOWN OF OLHKI AFTER RSIA'S VASN FEBARY LAST YEAR, BUT SAY THEY ULDN'T PE THE WAR.“WE WERE RAPED, ME AND MY GIRLIEND, G PHYSIL FORCE,” SVLANA SAID, HER WORDS PUBLISHED A REPORT BY UKRAE'S LGBT HUMAN RIGHTS NASH SV CENTRE NOVEMBER.“AFTER THE VLENCE, THE ATTACKERS TURNED OVER EVERYTHG LOOKG FOR MONEY AND JEWELLERY. WE HAD NOTHG AND THEY LEFT.”THE ABANDONED TERNATNAL AIRPORT THE UKRANIAN CY OF KHERSON FEBARY 2023. SOURCE: GETTY / STT PETERSONIN ANOTHER SE, A GROUP OF YOUNG MEN ACCED OF BEG GAY WERE ALLEGEDLY TAKEN HOSTAGE BY RSIAN SOLDIERS.“THEY HELD THEM A HOE AND HUIATED THEM, RAPED THEM,” SAID VALII TSARI, A HATE CRIME MONOR FOR THE CENTRE WHO SPOKE TO SBS NEWS OM A SAFE HOE OSA.“IT WAS GROUP RAPE AND THEN THEY PISSED ON THEM."IN THE MORNG THEY THREW THEM OUTSI. THE YOUNG MEN WERE AGED BETWEEN 19 AND 21. ONE OF THEM LATER TOOK HIS OWN LIFE.”THEY HELD THEM A HOE AND HUIATED THEM, RAPED THEM.- VALII TSARI, LGBT HUMAN RIGHTS NASH SV CENTRE SBS NEWS WAS UNABLE TO PENNTLY VERIFY THE CLAIMS BUT THEY ARE JT TWO OF THE 105 ALLEGED S OF HUMAN RIGHTS VLATNS THE NASH SV CENTRE, A NON-ERNMENTAL ANISATN, SAID HAS DOCUMENTED THE PAST YEAR, CLUDG S NOVEMBER REPORT LGBTQ AND WAR. IT SAID HAD ALSO RECEIVED 50 LLS TO S HOTLE.MR TSARI, WHO IS GAY, ALSO ALLEGED: “[RSIAN SOLDIERS] HAVE LISTS OF LGBTQ ACTIVISTS WHO APPEAR ON TELEVISN AND PARTICIPATE. I KNOW ABOUT THOSE LISTS AND I THOUGHT I WOULD BE ON THERE ALSO”. MARIANNA POLEVIKOVA SAID SHE GOT OUT JT TIME, FLEEG HER HOME KHERSON ON THE DAY RSIAN TANKS VAD UKRAE, JT WEEKS BEFORE WAS OCCUPIED. MARIANNA POLEVIKOVA, PICTURED ATRALIA, IS HELPG LGBTIQ+ UKRAIANS. SOURCE: SBS NEWS / KEV HUDSON“I LEFT KHERSON BEE THE RSIAN SOLDIERS WOULD LOOK FOR ME AND IF THEY FOUND ME, THEY WOULD KILL ME,” SHE SAID. MS POLEVIKOVA, THE MANAGG DIRECTOR OF LGBTIQ+ ANISATN FOR EQUAL RIGHTS, WHO IS A LBIAN, SAID HER NCERNS WERE HEIGHTENED BY TERNATNAL REPORTS THAT SURFACED PRR TO THE VASN, CLAIMG RSIAN SOLDIERS PLANNED TO TARGET CERTA GROUPS.THE WASHGTON POST PUBLISHED A LETTER FEBARY OM THE UNED STAT REPRENTATIVE TO THE OFFICE OF THE UNED NATNS AMBASSADOR, BATHSHEBA NELL CROCKER, STATG THE US HAD “CREDIBLE RMATN THAT DIT RSIAN FORC ARE CREATG A TARGET LIST OF UKRAIANS TO BE KILLED OR SENT TO MPS THE EVENT OF A ARY OCCUPATN, AMONG THEM JOURNALISTS, ACTIVISTS AND GAY RIGHTS ADVOT”.THE RSIAN ERNMENT NIED THE CLAIMS, WH KREML SPOKPERSON DMRY PKOV LLG AN “ABSOLUTE FICTN”.KHERSON WAS LIBERATED ON 9 NOVEMBER BUT MS POLEVIKOVA SAID DURG THE RSIAN OCCUPATN, MEMBERS OF THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY EXPERIENCED SEXUAL VLENCE, IMPRISONMENT AND TORTURE. SHE C THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC OF PEOPLE SHE HAS SCE HELPED TO EVACUATE THROUGH A ALN OF KHERSON LGBTIQ+ ANISATNS.“IN OCCUPIED KHERSON, RSIAN SOLDIERS HAVE HUNTED AND ABED LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE,” SHE SAID. “THEY [RSIAN SOLDIERS] WOULD SET UP FAKE DAT THROUGH A DATG SE. MANY LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE WERE TAKEN HOSTAGE.“WE KNOW OF SOME TAKEN TO TORTURE ROOMS, LBIANS THAT WERE UNFORTUNATELY RAPED, SOME PEOPLE WERE SHOT THE LEGS, SOME PEOPLE WENT MISSG AND STILL HAVE NOT BEEN FOUND.IN OCCUPIED KHERSON, RSIAN SOLDIERS HAVE HUNTED AND ABED LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE.- MARIANNA POLEVIKOVA, FOR EQUAL RIGHTSTHE ALLEGATNS ALSO EXTEND TO THE BROAR LGBTIQ+ MUNY, SHE SAID. “TRANSGENR PEOPLE WERE AAID TO GO OUT BEE THE RSIAN SOLDIERS WOULD RANDOMLY STOP THEM, PEOPLE WHO HAD TATTOOS WH UKRAIAN AND LGBTIQ+ SYMBOLS WERE DANGER.”ESPG TO SAFETYMS POLEVIKOVA IS NOW LIVG BERL AND IS VISG ATRALIA THIS WEEK AS PART OF SYDNEY WORLDPRI EVENTS TO RAISE AWARENS OF NTUG NCERNS FOR LGBTIQ+ UKRANIANS. SHE HAS BEEN WORKG WH HER CANBERRA-BASED IEND RENEE DIXSON TO MOVE ABOUT 300 MEMBERS OF THE MUNY TO SAFER AREAS UKRAE AND OVERSEAS.MX DIXSON, WHO IS A QUEER NON-BARY UKRANIAN, LEFT KHERSON MORE THAN A AGO AND IS THE -FOUNR OF THE FORCIBLY DISPLACED PEOPLE NETWORK (FDPN).RENEE DIXSON CANBERRA. CRED: SBS / KEV HUDSONTEARFULLY, MX DIXSON RELLED WATCHG RSIAN TANKS ROLL TO UKRAE LAST YEAR OM AFAR.“THE VASN WAS HORRIFIC FOR EVERYONE, AND UNFORTUNATELY, LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE WERE A MORE PRER AND VULNERABLE POSN. “THE FIRST THG THAT I DID THAT DAY ... WAS LL MY IEND [MS POLEVIKOVA] AND I ASK HER TO FD A R AND TAKE FAY AND IENDS OM THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY AND TO EVACUATE THE CY OF KHERSON.” READ MORETHIS IS WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE AN LGBTIQ+ ASYLUM SEEKER ATRALIAALLEGATNS OF HUMAN RIGHTS AB AGAST LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE E AS NO SURPRISE TO AMNTY INTERNATNAL ATRALIA.“RSIA HAS A TRACK RERD OF TARGETG THE RABOW MUNY,” S REPRENTATIVE LUCY KENNY SAID.“ALTHOUGH WE DON'T HAVE SPECIFIC EVINCE ON WHAT'S HAPPENG UKRAE RIGHT NOW, RSIA OPERAT A STATE-SANCTNED REGIME OF HOMOPHOBIA.”RSIA HAS A TRACK RERD OF TARGETG THE RABOW MUNY.- LUCY KENNY, AMNTY INTERNATNALIN DECEMBER, LAWS WERE TRODUCED THAT WIN THE PROHIBN OF "LGBT PROPAGANDA" RSIA AND RTRICT THE "MONSTRATN" OF LGBTIQ+ BEHAVUR. THE LEGISLATN PROHIBS ANY ACTN OR RMATN THAT IS NSIRED AN ATTEMPT TO PROMOTE HOMOSEXUALY AND BREACH N CUR A HEAVY FE.“THERE IS A LOT OF HATRED AND HOMOPHOBIA DISTRIBUTED BY THE KREML,” AMBASSADOR OF UKRAE TO ATRALIA VASYL MYROSHNYCHENKO SAID. “SO NATURALLY WHEN THEY OCCUPIED UKRAE, THEY WERE LOOKG FOR THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY AND TARGETG THEM SPECIFILLY.HE SAID THE ALLEGATNS ALSO EXTEND TO OTHER GROUPS. “RSIAN SOLDIERS ARE ALSO TARGETG WOMEN ... THEY ARE TARGETG RELIG MORI. THEY'RE TARGETG ETHNIC MORI. THE CRIM ARE QUE NUMERO.”READ MORETHE US HAS FORMALLY ACCED RSIA OF MTG 'CRIM AGAST HUMANY' UKRAERSIA HAS REPEATEDLY NIED S SOLDIERS HAVE MTED WAR CRIM DURG THE VASN.IN A STATEMENT TRANSLATED BY SBS RSIAN, A SPOKPERSON FOR THE EMBASSY OF THE RSIAN FERATN ATRALIA SCRIBED CLAIMS OF TARGETED ATTACKS ON UKRAE’S LGBTIQ+ MUNY AS A FABRITN.“THE ACCATNS ARE, ANKLY, LNAL AND ARE REMISCENT OF STORI ABOUT THE ALLEGED SEXUAL ATROCI OF THE RSIAN ARY WHICH THE ATRALIAN MEDIA PUBLISHED WILLGLY LAST YEAR. SBS WAS NO EXCEPTN,” THEY SAID. “THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF THIS SO-LLED RMATN WAS LYUDA DENISOVA, UKRAE’S FORMER OMBUDSMAN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS. SHE LATER ADMTED THAT SHE BASILLY VENTED THE CHILLG STORI, SO THAT ‘THE WORLD WOULD NOT FET ABOUT KYIV.’”READ MOREVLADIMIR PUT FENDS 'NOBLE' WAR VASN AMID ALLEGATNS OF RAPE, BTALY AND CHEMIL WEAPONSTHE STATEMENT REFERS TO MENTS MA BY MS DENISOVA LAST YEAR ABOUT ALLEGED RAPE S AGAST RSIAN SOLDIERS. MS DENISOVA WAS REMOVED OM OFFICE AFTER A VOTE OF NO-NFINCE MAY. SHE SAID AT THE TIME SHE WOULD APPEAL THE CISN. “THE SBS DIENCE SHOULD KNOW THIS STORY ORR TO PERCEIVE THIS NEW BATCH OF FABRITNS THE RIGHT NTEXT,“ THE EMBASSY STATEMENT SAID. 'LIVG FEAR'ANDRIY MAYMULAKH, HEAD OF THE NASH SV CENTRE, SAID ONE YEAR ON OM THE VASN, SOME MEMBERS OF THE MUNY WHO REMA OCCUPIED AREAS REMA FEARFUL. “SUCH PEOPLE ARE SUBJECTED TO SULTS, VLENCE, EXTORTN, RTRICTN OF EEDOM, AND THEIR VERY LIV ARE DANGER. “TRANSGENR PEOPLE ARE AAID TO GO OUT TO THE STREETS BEE IF THE RSIAN SOLDIERS ASK FOR THEIR DOCUMENTS AND THEY SEE SAYS 'MAN' AND THE PERSON LOOKS LIKE A WOMAN, THEN IS A BIG QUTN.”HIS LLEAGUE MR TSARI SAID THE NUMBER OF ALLEGED ASSLTS ULD ALSO BE MUCH HIGHER THAN REPORTED AS THOSE STILL OCCUPIED AREAS FEAR RETRIBUTN FOR THEMSELV OR THEIR FAI IF THEY SPEAK ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENC.HATE CRIME MONOR VALII TSARI. SOURCE: SUPPLIED / VALII TSARIAS WELL AS HELPG RELOTE PEOPLE OM UKRAE, MS POLEVIKOVA AND MX DIXSON HAVE ALSO BEEN LLABORATG TO PROVI SUPPLI SUCH AS HIV MEDITN TO THOSE WHO REMA. THEY ALSO RAISE FUNDS FOR FOOD AND HORMONE THERAPY FOR TRANSGENR PEOPLE, LIVERED WH THE HELP OF LOL VOLUNTEERS.BUT EVEN AFTER ARRIVG NEW UNTRI, CLUDG ATRALIA, SOME MEMBERS OF THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY N NTUE TO FACE SOCIAL BARRIERS AND ABE, ACRDG TO A RECENT SURVEY BY FDPN LLED INHABG TWO WORLDS AT ONCE.“WE FOUND OUT HORRIFIC RMATN AND DATA,” MX DIXSON SAID.READ MORE'MY PARENTS REJECTED ME FOR BEG GAY'OF THE 82 LGBTIQ+ RPONNTS ATRALIA, ONE-THIRD CHOSE NOT TO ANSWER A QUTN ABOUT VLENCE EXPERIENCED ATRALIA, BUT 60 PER CENT WHO DID SAID THEY HAD EXPERIENCED AT LEAST ONE FORM OF VLENCE SCE ARRIVG.FDPN ALSO C GLOBAL DATA WHICH SUGGTS UP TO SIX PER CENT OF REFUGE ARE MEMBERS OF THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY. MX DIXSON IS LLG ON THE ATRALIAN ERNMENT TO TRODUCE SEPARATE QUOTAS AND PROVI MORE SPECIFIC SUPPORT FOR LGBTIQ+ REFUGE. “WE ARE LOSG MEMBERS NOT ONLY UKRAE, BUT AFGHANISTAN, IRAN,” MX DIXSON SAID. “WE NEED TO DO MORE FOR MUNI AROUND THE WORLD THAT ARE SUFFERG UNR HOMOPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIA, CREATG SAFE AND WELG SPAC HOST UNTRI, TO HELP PEOPLE FD PATHWAYS TO BELONGG.”SBS NEWS HAS NTACTED THE DEPARTMENT OF HOME AFFAIRS FOR MENT. ATRALIA HAS GIVEN $655 LN TO UKRAE OVER THE PAST YEAR, CLUDG $65 LN HUMANARIAN ASSISTANCE.THE QUEER DISPLACEMENTS NFERENCE ANISED BY THE FORCIBLY DISPLACED PEOPLE NETWORK (FDPN) WILL BE HELD ON 22-23 FEBARY AT THE UNIVERSY OF WTERN SYDNEY AS PART OF SYDNEY WORLDPRI.*NAM HAVE BEEN CHANGEDLERA SHVETS IS A PRODUCER FOR SBS RSIAN. IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS IMPACTED BY SEXUAL ASSLT, LL 1800RESPECT ON 1800 737 732 OR VIS . IN AN EMERGENCY, LL 000. LGBTIQ+ ATRALIANS SEEKG SUPPORT WH MENTAL HEALTH N NTACT QLIFE ON 1800 184 527 OR VIS .  ALSO HAS A LIST OF SUPPORT SERVIC.  WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE YOUR STORY WH SBS NEWS? EMAIL SHARETAGSWORLDREMEND FOR YOU
• HIV S ARE RISG AMONG STRAIGHT PEOPLE. ADVOT SAY A NEW STRATEGY IS NEEDADVOT SAY A NEW PUBLIC HEALTH MPAIGN IS NEED TO REACH POPULATN GROUPS WHERE S OF HIV ARE ON THE RISE ATRALIA.JANE COSTELLO SAYS STIGMA IS STILL A HDRANCE TO DRIVG DOWN HIV TRANSMISSN RAT AND ENURAGG MORE PEOPLE TO GET SCREENED REGULARLY. SOURCE: SUPPLIED / JANE COSTELLOKEY POTSADVOT SAY DIFFERENT STRATEGI ARE NEED TO REACH EMERGG AT-RISK GROUPS.HIV RAT ARE GROWG FASTT AMONG HETEROSEXUAL MEN AND WOMEN. THOSE WHO ARE SEXUALLY ACTIVE ARE ADVISED TO SEEK A FULL SEXUAL HEALTH SCREEN AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR.WHEN JANE COSTELLO FOUND OUT SHE HAD HIV, SHE WAS SURPRISED. AS A HETEROSEXUAL WOMAN A MONOGAMO RELATNSHIP, SHE DIDN'T THK SHE WAS AT RISK. "IF YOU HAD ASKED ME IF I WAS AT RISK OF HIV BACK THEN I WOULD HAVE SAID NO. AND I THK THAT'S WHAT A LOT OF PEOPLE STILL THK TODAY," SHE TOLD SBS NEWS.IT WAS THE EARLY 1990S AND THE FOC AT THAT TIME FOR HIV OUTREACH WAS GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN. HER PARTNER, WHO LATER BEME HER HBAND, RECEIVED A DIAGNOSIS THAT LED HER TO GET TTED. READ MORETHERE ARE FEARS THE GLOBAL RPONSE AGAST HIV IS 'SEVERE DANGER'. WHY?"IT TOOK A YEAR-AND-A-HALF FOR HIM TO BE DIAGNOSED. NOBODY THOUGHT TO TT HIM BEE AT THAT TIME WAS PREDOMANTLY GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WHO WERE DIAGNOSED WH HIV," SHE SAID.COSTELLO IS THE CEO OF POSIVE LIFE NSW, A GROUP REPRENTG THOSE LIVG WH HIV THE STATE. THE ANISATN WORKS G A PEER MOL WHERE THOSE LIVG WH HIV ARE SUPPORTED BY OTHERS WH LIVED EXPERIENCE. "SO WE'VE GOT A DIVERSE RANGE OF PEOPLE: YOUNG HETEROSEXUAL WOMAN, HETEROSEXUAL MEN, PEOPLE OM CULTURALLY LGUISTILLY DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS," SHE SAID.HER EXPERIENCE SHOWS UP THE LATT ANNUAL DATA ON HIV RAT ATRALIA. HIV TRANSMISSN RISG AMONG WIR POPULATNCOLLECTED BY THE KIRBY INSTUTE AT UNSW, THE 2022 NUMBERS SHOW HIV SE NUMBERS ARE GROWG THE FASTT AMONG HETEROSEXUAL WOMEN AND MEN (30 PER CENT OF S), FIRST NATNS ATRALIANS, AND THOSE BORN OVERSEAS. GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN STILL ACUNT FOR THE MAJORY OF THE 555 NEW DIAGNOS OF HIV 2022, BUT OVER A 10-YEAR PERD THE SE NUMBERS HAVE CLED BY 50 PER CENT. READ MOREMORE THAN 70 PER CENT OF MIGRANT WOMEN ATRALIA SAY THEY N'T AFFORD TO SEE A DOCTORDR SKYE MCGREGOR OM THE KIRBY INSTUTE SAID THE DATA REVEALED THE NEED FOR PREVENTN STRATEGI TARGETED AT ALL POPULATNS. "THE DATA SUGGT THAT, TO ELIMATE HIV, THERE NEEDS TO BE CREASG FOC ON PREVENTN STRATEGI THAT ENPASS ALL POPULATNS, CLUDG HETEROSEXUAL MEN AND WOMEN, PARTICULARLY AS WE ALL BEG TO TRAVEL MORE FOLLOWG THE RELAXG OF COVID-19 NTROL MEASUR," SHE TOLD SBS NEWS."THIS CLUS SAFE SEX TRAVEL MPAIGNS AND REGULAR SEXUAL HEALTH CHECKS UPS WHICH CLU HIV TTG."ATRALIA MOVG CLOSER TO 2030 TARGETDARRYL O'DONNELL, THE CEO OF ADVOCY GROUP HEALTH EQUY MATTERS, SAID ATRALIA'S SUCCS RCG OVERALL TRANSMISSN RAT THE LAST IS PRAISEWORTHY. "BY GLOBAL STANDARDS, AND ALSO WH ATRALIA'S HISTORY, THE ARE THE LOWT (ANNUAL) NUMBERS WE'VE SEEN TO DATE," HE SAID. HE SAID MONORG WHERE TRANSMISSN IS GROWG WILL BE KEY TO ACHIEVG THE 2030 GOAL SET BY UNAIDS TO ACHIEVE A 90 PER CENT RCTN HIV FECTNS AND AIDS-RELATED ATHS PARED TO THE 2010 BASELE. "SO WE ARE VERY EXCED AND PLEASED TO BE TRACKG TOWARDS VERY LOW RAT OF HIV TRANSMISSN. BUT THIS IS AN FECT DISEASE, SO YOU N'T STOP WORKG TOWARDS ELIMATN UNTIL 'S OVER. IF WE STOP OUR WORK, THE EPIMIC WILL TAKE OFF AGA."INCREASED ACCS TO HIV TREATMENT KEY TO RCED TRANSMISSNHE SAYS CREASED ACCS TO THE PRCRIPTN ANTIRETROVIRAL TABLET MEDITN PREP (PRE-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS) HAS BEEN KEY TO THE SUCCS ACHIEVED DRIVG DOWN S OVER THE LAST .THE TREATMENT IS SUBSIDISED BY THE ERNMENT THROUGH THE PHARMACTIL BENEFS SCHEME. ADVOT HAVE ALSO BEEN SUCCSFUL HELPG TO BRG ABOUT A ERNMENT-FUND SCHEME ACROSS ATRALIAN STAT AND TERRORI, WHICH ALLOWS THOSE WHOUT MEDIRE TO ACCS HIV TREATMENT EE OF CHARGE OR AT LOW ST THROUGH ERNMENT-FUND HOSPAL PHARMACI.THE ANNOUNCEMENT WAS MA BY THE FERAL ERNMENT ON 1 DECEMBER 2021, WH ATRALIAN STAT AND TERRORI PLETG THE ROLLOUT OF THE SCHEME THIS YEAR.COSTELLO, WELED THE CREASED ACCS, SAYG IS CRIL TO ACHIEVG THE 2030 GOAL TO "END THE AIDS EPIMIC". "IT WILL MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE BEE WE KNOW THAT IF PEOPLE ARE ON MEDITN THEY N MATA AN UNTECTABLE VIRAL LOAD AND THAT'S REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT [WHEN TO ENDG HIV TRANSMISSN]."STIGMA STILL A BARRIERCOSTELLO SAYS HER OWN LIVED EXPERIENCE WH HIV AND THE STORI OF OTHERS THE POSIVE LIFE WORK UNRLE THE IMPORTANCE OF BUILDG TST AND RAPPORT WH TARGET POPULATNS. SHE SAID ANY SUCCSFUL PUBLIC HEALTH MPAIGN WOULD NEED TO E IMAGERY AND LANGUAGE THAT REACHED THE TARGET DIENCE. "I SEE A LOT OF YOUNG WOMEN HERE AND THEY SAY THAT EVEN WHEN THEY GO TO SEXUAL HEALTH CLICS, ALL OF THE RMATN ON THE WALLS AND PAMPHLETS DON'T SPEAK TO THEM."COSTELLO REMEMBERS BEG GIVEN THE PROGNOSIS THE 1990S THAT SHE WOULD ONLY LIVE FOR THREE YEARS. WH THE VELOPMENT OF HIV TREATMENTS, SHE HAS NOW BEEN LIVG WH THE DISEASE FOR 29 YEARS.READ MORETHE US HAS BEE THE LATT NATN TO REMOVE S 'GAY BLOOD BAN'. WILL ATRALIA FOLLOW?SHE SAID STIGMA STILL EXISTED AND THAT ULD IMPACT THE EQUENCY WH WHICH PEOPLE SOUGHT SEXUAL HEALTH SCREENGS, AS WELL AS HOW QUICKLY THEY GOT ONTO THE MEDITN. "SOMETHG THAT WE OFTEN HEAR OM PEOPLE WHO ARE NEWLY DIAGNOSED: I DIDN'T THK I WAS AT RISK," COSTELLO SAID."GETTG A HEALTH SCREENG IS ABOUT KNOWG WHAT YOUR HEALTH SUATN IS. THAT EMPOWERS YOU TO MAKE REALLY GOOD CISNS ABOUT YOUR HEALTH OUT AND YOUR HEALTH GOG FORWARD."SHE SAID THOSE WHO ARE SEXUALLY ACTIVE SHOULD BE HAVG A FULL SEXUAL HEALTH SCREEN AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR. IT'S REMEND EVERY THREE MONTHS FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN. WHAT WOULD A SUCCSFUL AWARENS MPAIGN LOOK LIKE?THE ANISATN IS ABOUT TO LNCH A NEW HEALTH MPAIGN FEATURG THE SLOGAN 'N'T PASS ON', WHICH IS SPIRED BY SUCCSFUL MPAIGNS UNTRI LIKE THE UK AND CANADA. "WE WORK WH PREVENTN MSAGG. WE CERTALY WORK AROUND TTG AND TREATMENT AS WELL," COSTELLO SAID."BUT YOU'VE ALSO GOT TO FACTOR STIGMA AND DISCRIMATN. I DON'T THK WE'VE ACHIEVED A GREAT AL HOW HIV IS SEEN THE WIR POPULATN; AND THE STIGMA THAT STILL EXISTS AROUND GETTG A NEW HIV DIAGNOSIS."SHE SAID THE 1987 GRIM REAPER AD THAT WAS BROADST ON ATRALIAN TELEVISN ED FEAR AS A TACTIC, WHICH END UP FURTHER STIGMATISG THOSE LIVG WH HIV. COSTELLO SAID EFFECTIVE MSAGG TODAY WOULD NEED TO E MORE EMPOWERG LANGUAGE."IF WE'RE TALKG ABOUT A BROAR NVERSATN, WE NEED TO REALLY TALK ABOUT NORMALISG, FOR WANT OF A BETTER EXPRSN, HIV. WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT SEXUAL HEALTH AS SIMPLY ANOTHER WAY OF LOOKG AFTER YOURSELF AND YOUR OWN HEALTH," SHE SAID."PEOPLE NEED TO BE REALLY PROACTIVE ABOUT SEXUAL HEALTH, BUT ALSO ABOUT THEIR HEALTH MORE BROADLY. IF WE N SOMEHOW RPORATE SEXUAL HEALTH TO AN OVERALL HEALTH AND WELLBEG APPROACH, I THK THAT WOULD HAVE BETTER OUT."ABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANRS ANOTHER AT-RISK GROUPHIV DIAGNOS AMONG ABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANR PEOPL HAVE CREASED OVER THE PAST YEAR, WH 25 DIAGNOS 2022.BUNDJALUNG MAN ROBERT MONAGHAN IS THE MANAGER OF ABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANR HEALTH REARCH AT THE KIRBY INSTUTE. HE SAID EVEN THOUGH THE TOTAL NUMBER WAS LOW, WAS IMPORTANT TO ENSURE DIDN'T NTUE TO RISE. "WE NEED TO GET AHEAD OF THIS. IT ULD BE VERY TASTROPHIC IF THIS GETS OUT [SPREADS]," HE TOLD SBS NEWS."EVEN THOUGH THE NUMBERS ARE LOW, ULD BE VERY DIRE THE ABORIGAL MUNY. ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE NATURE OF ABORIGAL PEOPLE, LIVG VERY CLOSE TO PROXIMY TO ONE ANOTHER REMOTE MUNI; THE TTG FACILI AREN'T THE SAME AS THE METROPOLAN AREAS." ROBERT MONAGHAN SAYS ACTN NEEDS TO BE TAKEN TO ENSURE HIV TRANSMISSN DON'T RISE ABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANR MUNI. SOURCE: SUPPLIED / KIRBY INSTUTEMONAGHAN SAID EFFORTS NEED TO FOC ON REACHG ABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANRS THE 16-29 AGE GROUP."THEY TEND TO BE LS NCERNED ABOUT THEIR HEALTH. WE NEED TO GET TO THEM EARLY," HE SAID.MONAGHAN SAID ANY PUBLIC HEALTH MSAGG WOULD NEED TO RCE STIGMA, NOT ADD TO . HE ALSO DISMISSED THE FEAR TACTICS ED THE 1987 GRIM REAPER AD. "I THK 2023 WE'VE MOVED ON A LOT OM THE GRIM REAPER APPROACH [AND] SRG THE LIVG DAYLIGHTS OUT OF PEOPLE. WE'RE MORE ACCEPTG OF PEOPLE LIVG WH HIV. WE'RE MORE ACCEPTG OF GENR DIVERSY. SERVIC WANT TO ENGAGE. BUT IS HOW TO ENGAGE — THAT IS THE CHALLENGE."ADDNAL REPORTG BY LUCY MURRAYSHARE8 M READPUBLISHED 21 JULY 2023 6:19AMBY BIWA KWANSOURCE: SBS NEWSTAGSHEALTHATRALIASHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• WATCH PERFORMANC OM THE 'SBS GAYO DAEJEON 2022'!
• SBS GAYO DAEJEON 2022 DATE, TIME, LP & WHERE TO WATCH MIC FTIVAL
• SOUTH KOREAN BROADSTER CENSORS GAY KISS 'BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY'
• SOUTH KOREAN BROADSTER CENSORS GAY KISS ‘BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY’
• DEEP WATER: WERE 30 UNSOLVED SYDNEY ATHS REALLY GAY HATE CRIM?

THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS

Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer televisn newssters have a proment profile many untri around the world.

THE GAY UKRAIANS 'HUNTED' BY RSIAN SOLDIERS AND THE ALLI HELPG THEM PEA YEAR SCE RSIA'S LATT VASN OF UKRAE, ALLEGATNS PERSIST OF LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE BEG TARGETED OCCUPIED AREAS. FRIENDS MARIANNA POLEVIKOVA AND RENEE DIXSON ARE OFFERG MEMBERS OF THE MUNY A LIFELE.PUBLISHED 22 FEBARY 2023 7:57AMBY SANDRA FULLOON, LERA SHVETSSOURCE: SBS NEWSIMAGE: RENEE DIXSON (LEFT) AND MARIANNA POLEVIKOVA CANBERRA. (SBS NEWS / KEV HUDSON)CONTENT WARNG: THIS ARTICLE NTAS REFERENC TO SEXUAL ASSLT AND SUICI.IT WAS 13 MAY WHEN UKRAIANS SVLANA AND KATERYNA* SAID THREE ARMED RSIAN SOLDIERS BURST TO THE SMALL ABANDONED HOE WHERE THEY HAD BEEN LIVG. “ONE OF THEM FELY HAD A GUN,” SVLANA SAID. “THEY SAW OUR DISASSEMBLED BED, ON WHICH WE SLEEP, AND ONE OF THE SOLDIERS ASKED , ‘WHAT ARE YOU, THOSE 'PKS'?”THE LBIAN UPLE HAD MOVED OM THE UKRAIAN CY OF KHERSON TO THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE TOWN OF OLHKI AFTER RSIA'S VASN FEBARY LAST YEAR, BUT SAY THEY ULDN'T PE THE WAR.“WE WERE RAPED, ME AND MY GIRLIEND, G PHYSIL FORCE,” SVLANA SAID, HER WORDS PUBLISHED A REPORT BY UKRAE'S LGBT HUMAN RIGHTS NASH SV CENTRE NOVEMBER.“AFTER THE VLENCE, THE ATTACKERS TURNED OVER EVERYTHG LOOKG FOR MONEY AND JEWELLERY. WE HAD NOTHG AND THEY LEFT.”THE ABANDONED TERNATNAL AIRPORT THE UKRANIAN CY OF KHERSON FEBARY 2023. SOURCE: GETTY / STT PETERSONIN ANOTHER SE, A GROUP OF YOUNG MEN ACCED OF BEG GAY WERE ALLEGEDLY TAKEN HOSTAGE BY RSIAN SOLDIERS.“THEY HELD THEM A HOE AND HUIATED THEM, RAPED THEM,” SAID VALII TSARI, A HATE CRIME MONOR FOR THE CENTRE WHO SPOKE TO SBS NEWS OM A SAFE HOE OSA.“IT WAS GROUP RAPE AND THEN THEY PISSED ON THEM."IN THE MORNG THEY THREW THEM OUTSI. THE YOUNG MEN WERE AGED BETWEEN 19 AND 21. ONE OF THEM LATER TOOK HIS OWN LIFE.”THEY HELD THEM A HOE AND HUIATED THEM, RAPED THEM.- VALII TSARI, LGBT HUMAN RIGHTS NASH SV CENTRE SBS NEWS WAS UNABLE TO PENNTLY VERIFY THE CLAIMS BUT THEY ARE JT TWO OF THE 105 ALLEGED S OF HUMAN RIGHTS VLATNS THE NASH SV CENTRE, A NON-ERNMENTAL ANISATN, SAID HAS DOCUMENTED THE PAST YEAR, CLUDG S NOVEMBER REPORT LGBTQ AND WAR. IT SAID HAD ALSO RECEIVED 50 LLS TO S HOTLE.MR TSARI, WHO IS GAY, ALSO ALLEGED: “[RSIAN SOLDIERS] HAVE LISTS OF LGBTQ ACTIVISTS WHO APPEAR ON TELEVISN AND PARTICIPATE. I KNOW ABOUT THOSE LISTS AND I THOUGHT I WOULD BE ON THERE ALSO”. MARIANNA POLEVIKOVA SAID SHE GOT OUT JT TIME, FLEEG HER HOME KHERSON ON THE DAY RSIAN TANKS VAD UKRAE, JT WEEKS BEFORE WAS OCCUPIED. MARIANNA POLEVIKOVA, PICTURED ATRALIA, IS HELPG LGBTIQ+ UKRAIANS. SOURCE: SBS NEWS / KEV HUDSON“I LEFT KHERSON BEE THE RSIAN SOLDIERS WOULD LOOK FOR ME AND IF THEY FOUND ME, THEY WOULD KILL ME,” SHE SAID. MS POLEVIKOVA, THE MANAGG DIRECTOR OF LGBTIQ+ ANISATN FOR EQUAL RIGHTS, WHO IS A LBIAN, SAID HER NCERNS WERE HEIGHTENED BY TERNATNAL REPORTS THAT SURFACED PRR TO THE VASN, CLAIMG RSIAN SOLDIERS PLANNED TO TARGET CERTA GROUPS.THE WASHGTON POST PUBLISHED A LETTER FEBARY OM THE UNED STAT REPRENTATIVE TO THE OFFICE OF THE UNED NATNS AMBASSADOR, BATHSHEBA NELL CROCKER, STATG THE US HAD “CREDIBLE RMATN THAT DIT RSIAN FORC ARE CREATG A TARGET LIST OF UKRAIANS TO BE KILLED OR SENT TO MPS THE EVENT OF A ARY OCCUPATN, AMONG THEM JOURNALISTS, ACTIVISTS AND GAY RIGHTS ADVOT”.THE RSIAN ERNMENT NIED THE CLAIMS, WH KREML SPOKPERSON DMRY PKOV LLG AN “ABSOLUTE FICTN”.KHERSON WAS LIBERATED ON 9 NOVEMBER BUT MS POLEVIKOVA SAID DURG THE RSIAN OCCUPATN, MEMBERS OF THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY EXPERIENCED SEXUAL VLENCE, IMPRISONMENT AND TORTURE. SHE C THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC OF PEOPLE SHE HAS SCE HELPED TO EVACUATE THROUGH A ALN OF KHERSON LGBTIQ+ ANISATNS.“IN OCCUPIED KHERSON, RSIAN SOLDIERS HAVE HUNTED AND ABED LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE,” SHE SAID. “THEY [RSIAN SOLDIERS] WOULD SET UP FAKE DAT THROUGH A DATG SE. MANY LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE WERE TAKEN HOSTAGE.“WE KNOW OF SOME TAKEN TO TORTURE ROOMS, LBIANS THAT WERE UNFORTUNATELY RAPED, SOME PEOPLE WERE SHOT THE LEGS, SOME PEOPLE WENT MISSG AND STILL HAVE NOT BEEN FOUND.IN OCCUPIED KHERSON, RSIAN SOLDIERS HAVE HUNTED AND ABED LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE.- MARIANNA POLEVIKOVA, FOR EQUAL RIGHTSTHE ALLEGATNS ALSO EXTEND TO THE BROAR LGBTIQ+ MUNY, SHE SAID. “TRANSGENR PEOPLE WERE AAID TO GO OUT BEE THE RSIAN SOLDIERS WOULD RANDOMLY STOP THEM, PEOPLE WHO HAD TATTOOS WH UKRAIAN AND LGBTIQ+ SYMBOLS WERE DANGER.”ESPG TO SAFETYMS POLEVIKOVA IS NOW LIVG BERL AND IS VISG ATRALIA THIS WEEK AS PART OF SYDNEY WORLDPRI EVENTS TO RAISE AWARENS OF NTUG NCERNS FOR LGBTIQ+ UKRANIANS. SHE HAS BEEN WORKG WH HER CANBERRA-BASED IEND RENEE DIXSON TO MOVE ABOUT 300 MEMBERS OF THE MUNY TO SAFER AREAS UKRAE AND OVERSEAS.MX DIXSON, WHO IS A QUEER NON-BARY UKRANIAN, LEFT KHERSON MORE THAN A AGO AND IS THE -FOUNR OF THE FORCIBLY DISPLACED PEOPLE NETWORK (FDPN).RENEE DIXSON CANBERRA. CRED: SBS / KEV HUDSONTEARFULLY, MX DIXSON RELLED WATCHG RSIAN TANKS ROLL TO UKRAE LAST YEAR OM AFAR.“THE VASN WAS HORRIFIC FOR EVERYONE, AND UNFORTUNATELY, LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE WERE A MORE PRER AND VULNERABLE POSN. “THE FIRST THG THAT I DID THAT DAY ... WAS LL MY IEND [MS POLEVIKOVA] AND I ASK HER TO FD A R AND TAKE FAY AND IENDS OM THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY AND TO EVACUATE THE CY OF KHERSON.” READ MORETHIS IS WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE AN LGBTIQ+ ASYLUM SEEKER ATRALIAALLEGATNS OF HUMAN RIGHTS AB AGAST LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE E AS NO SURPRISE TO AMNTY INTERNATNAL ATRALIA.“RSIA HAS A TRACK RERD OF TARGETG THE RABOW MUNY,” S REPRENTATIVE LUCY KENNY SAID.“ALTHOUGH WE DON'T HAVE SPECIFIC EVINCE ON WHAT'S HAPPENG UKRAE RIGHT NOW, RSIA OPERAT A STATE-SANCTNED REGIME OF HOMOPHOBIA.”RSIA HAS A TRACK RERD OF TARGETG THE RABOW MUNY.- LUCY KENNY, AMNTY INTERNATNALIN DECEMBER, LAWS WERE TRODUCED THAT WIN THE PROHIBN OF "LGBT PROPAGANDA" RSIA AND RTRICT THE "MONSTRATN" OF LGBTIQ+ BEHAVUR. THE LEGISLATN PROHIBS ANY ACTN OR RMATN THAT IS NSIRED AN ATTEMPT TO PROMOTE HOMOSEXUALY AND BREACH N CUR A HEAVY FE.“THERE IS A LOT OF HATRED AND HOMOPHOBIA DISTRIBUTED BY THE KREML,” AMBASSADOR OF UKRAE TO ATRALIA VASYL MYROSHNYCHENKO SAID. “SO NATURALLY WHEN THEY OCCUPIED UKRAE, THEY WERE LOOKG FOR THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY AND TARGETG THEM SPECIFILLY.HE SAID THE ALLEGATNS ALSO EXTEND TO OTHER GROUPS. “RSIAN SOLDIERS ARE ALSO TARGETG WOMEN ... THEY ARE TARGETG RELIG MORI. THEY'RE TARGETG ETHNIC MORI. THE CRIM ARE QUE NUMERO.”READ MORETHE US HAS FORMALLY ACCED RSIA OF MTG 'CRIM AGAST HUMANY' UKRAERSIA HAS REPEATEDLY NIED S SOLDIERS HAVE MTED WAR CRIM DURG THE VASN.IN A STATEMENT TRANSLATED BY SBS RSIAN, A SPOKPERSON FOR THE EMBASSY OF THE RSIAN FERATN ATRALIA SCRIBED CLAIMS OF TARGETED ATTACKS ON UKRAE’S LGBTIQ+ MUNY AS A FABRITN.“THE ACCATNS ARE, ANKLY, LNAL AND ARE REMISCENT OF STORI ABOUT THE ALLEGED SEXUAL ATROCI OF THE RSIAN ARY WHICH THE ATRALIAN MEDIA PUBLISHED WILLGLY LAST YEAR. SBS WAS NO EXCEPTN,” THEY SAID. “THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF THIS SO-LLED RMATN WAS LYUDA DENISOVA, UKRAE’S FORMER OMBUDSMAN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS. SHE LATER ADMTED THAT SHE BASILLY VENTED THE CHILLG STORI, SO THAT ‘THE WORLD WOULD NOT FET ABOUT KYIV.’”READ MOREVLADIMIR PUT FENDS 'NOBLE' WAR VASN AMID ALLEGATNS OF RAPE, BTALY AND CHEMIL WEAPONSTHE STATEMENT REFERS TO MENTS MA BY MS DENISOVA LAST YEAR ABOUT ALLEGED RAPE S AGAST RSIAN SOLDIERS. MS DENISOVA WAS REMOVED OM OFFICE AFTER A VOTE OF NO-NFINCE MAY. SHE SAID AT THE TIME SHE WOULD APPEAL THE CISN. “THE SBS DIENCE SHOULD KNOW THIS STORY ORR TO PERCEIVE THIS NEW BATCH OF FABRITNS THE RIGHT NTEXT,“ THE EMBASSY STATEMENT SAID. 'LIVG FEAR'ANDRIY MAYMULAKH, HEAD OF THE NASH SV CENTRE, SAID ONE YEAR ON OM THE VASN, SOME MEMBERS OF THE MUNY WHO REMA OCCUPIED AREAS REMA FEARFUL. “SUCH PEOPLE ARE SUBJECTED TO SULTS, VLENCE, EXTORTN, RTRICTN OF EEDOM, AND THEIR VERY LIV ARE DANGER. “TRANSGENR PEOPLE ARE AAID TO GO OUT TO THE STREETS BEE IF THE RSIAN SOLDIERS ASK FOR THEIR DOCUMENTS AND THEY SEE SAYS 'MAN' AND THE PERSON LOOKS LIKE A WOMAN, THEN IS A BIG QUTN.”HIS LLEAGUE MR TSARI SAID THE NUMBER OF ALLEGED ASSLTS ULD ALSO BE MUCH HIGHER THAN REPORTED AS THOSE STILL OCCUPIED AREAS FEAR RETRIBUTN FOR THEMSELV OR THEIR FAI IF THEY SPEAK ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENC.HATE CRIME MONOR VALII TSARI. SOURCE: SUPPLIED / VALII TSARIAS WELL AS HELPG RELOTE PEOPLE OM UKRAE, MS POLEVIKOVA AND MX DIXSON HAVE ALSO BEEN LLABORATG TO PROVI SUPPLI SUCH AS HIV MEDITN TO THOSE WHO REMA. THEY ALSO RAISE FUNDS FOR FOOD AND HORMONE THERAPY FOR TRANSGENR PEOPLE, LIVERED WH THE HELP OF LOL VOLUNTEERS.BUT EVEN AFTER ARRIVG NEW UNTRI, CLUDG ATRALIA, SOME MEMBERS OF THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY N NTUE TO FACE SOCIAL BARRIERS AND ABE, ACRDG TO A RECENT SURVEY BY FDPN LLED INHABG TWO WORLDS AT ONCE.“WE FOUND OUT HORRIFIC RMATN AND DATA,” MX DIXSON SAID.READ MORE'MY PARENTS REJECTED ME FOR BEG GAY'OF THE 82 LGBTIQ+ RPONNTS ATRALIA, ONE-THIRD CHOSE NOT TO ANSWER A QUTN ABOUT VLENCE EXPERIENCED ATRALIA, BUT 60 PER CENT WHO DID SAID THEY HAD EXPERIENCED AT LEAST ONE FORM OF VLENCE SCE ARRIVG.FDPN ALSO C GLOBAL DATA WHICH SUGGTS UP TO SIX PER CENT OF REFUGE ARE MEMBERS OF THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY. MX DIXSON IS LLG ON THE ATRALIAN ERNMENT TO TRODUCE SEPARATE QUOTAS AND PROVI MORE SPECIFIC SUPPORT FOR LGBTIQ+ REFUGE. “WE ARE LOSG MEMBERS NOT ONLY UKRAE, BUT AFGHANISTAN, IRAN,” MX DIXSON SAID. “WE NEED TO DO MORE FOR MUNI AROUND THE WORLD THAT ARE SUFFERG UNR HOMOPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIA, CREATG SAFE AND WELG SPAC HOST UNTRI, TO HELP PEOPLE FD PATHWAYS TO BELONGG.”SBS NEWS HAS NTACTED THE DEPARTMENT OF HOME AFFAIRS FOR MENT. ATRALIA HAS GIVEN $655 LN TO UKRAE OVER THE PAST YEAR, CLUDG $65 LN HUMANARIAN ASSISTANCE.THE QUEER DISPLACEMENTS NFERENCE ANISED BY THE FORCIBLY DISPLACED PEOPLE NETWORK (FDPN) WILL BE HELD ON 22-23 FEBARY AT THE UNIVERSY OF WTERN SYDNEY AS PART OF SYDNEY WORLDPRI.*NAM HAVE BEEN CHANGEDLERA SHVETS IS A PRODUCER FOR SBS RSIAN. IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS IMPACTED BY SEXUAL ASSLT, LL 1800RESPECT ON 1800 737 732 OR VIS . IN AN EMERGENCY, LL 000. LGBTIQ+ ATRALIANS SEEKG SUPPORT WH MENTAL HEALTH N NTACT QLIFE ON 1800 184 527 OR VIS .  ALSO HAS A LIST OF SUPPORT SERVIC.  WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE YOUR STORY WH SBS NEWS? EMAIL SHARETAGSWORLDREMEND FOR YOU

Amerin Charl Perez of ABC News is one to particularly note - he published his book 'Confsns of a Gay News Anchorman' (2011) after his oral of beg fired om a posn Florida when he was intified as beg gay. For example, France, there is L'associatn s journalist LGBT, and Ameri there is the Natnal Lbian & Gay Journalists Associatn. The Secret History of Atralia's Gay Diggers.

On Anzac Day, 1982, five gay men walked up to the Shre of Remembrance Melbourne. They were om the Gay Ex-Servic Associatn, and they rried a wreath dited to ‘all brothers and sisters who died durg the wars’—but they would never get to lay at the shre.

“I don’t know where all the gays and poofters have e om, ” he was later famoly quoted as sayg, “I don’t remember a sgle one om World War Two.

HIV S ARE RISG AMONG STRAIGHT PEOPLE. ADVOT SAY A NEW STRATEGY IS NEEDADVOT SAY A NEW PUBLIC HEALTH MPAIGN IS NEED TO REACH POPULATN GROUPS WHERE S OF HIV ARE ON THE RISE ATRALIA.JANE COSTELLO SAYS STIGMA IS STILL A HDRANCE TO DRIVG DOWN HIV TRANSMISSN RAT AND ENURAGG MORE PEOPLE TO GET SCREENED REGULARLY. SOURCE: SUPPLIED / JANE COSTELLOKEY POTSADVOT SAY DIFFERENT STRATEGI ARE NEED TO REACH EMERGG AT-RISK GROUPS.HIV RAT ARE GROWG FASTT AMONG HETEROSEXUAL MEN AND WOMEN. THOSE WHO ARE SEXUALLY ACTIVE ARE ADVISED TO SEEK A FULL SEXUAL HEALTH SCREEN AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR.WHEN JANE COSTELLO FOUND OUT SHE HAD HIV, SHE WAS SURPRISED. AS A HETEROSEXUAL WOMAN A MONOGAMO RELATNSHIP, SHE DIDN'T THK SHE WAS AT RISK. "IF YOU HAD ASKED ME IF I WAS AT RISK OF HIV BACK THEN I WOULD HAVE SAID NO. AND I THK THAT'S WHAT A LOT OF PEOPLE STILL THK TODAY," SHE TOLD SBS NEWS.IT WAS THE EARLY 1990S AND THE FOC AT THAT TIME FOR HIV OUTREACH WAS GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN. HER PARTNER, WHO LATER BEME HER HBAND, RECEIVED A DIAGNOSIS THAT LED HER TO GET TTED. READ MORETHERE ARE FEARS THE GLOBAL RPONSE AGAST HIV IS 'SEVERE DANGER'. WHY?"IT TOOK A YEAR-AND-A-HALF FOR HIM TO BE DIAGNOSED. NOBODY THOUGHT TO TT HIM BEE AT THAT TIME WAS PREDOMANTLY GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WHO WERE DIAGNOSED WH HIV," SHE SAID.COSTELLO IS THE CEO OF POSIVE LIFE NSW, A GROUP REPRENTG THOSE LIVG WH HIV THE STATE. THE ANISATN WORKS G A PEER MOL WHERE THOSE LIVG WH HIV ARE SUPPORTED BY OTHERS WH LIVED EXPERIENCE. "SO WE'VE GOT A DIVERSE RANGE OF PEOPLE: YOUNG HETEROSEXUAL WOMAN, HETEROSEXUAL MEN, PEOPLE OM CULTURALLY LGUISTILLY DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS," SHE SAID.HER EXPERIENCE SHOWS UP THE LATT ANNUAL DATA ON HIV RAT ATRALIA. HIV TRANSMISSN RISG AMONG WIR POPULATNCOLLECTED BY THE KIRBY INSTUTE AT UNSW, THE 2022 NUMBERS SHOW HIV SE NUMBERS ARE GROWG THE FASTT AMONG HETEROSEXUAL WOMEN AND MEN (30 PER CENT OF S), FIRST NATNS ATRALIANS, AND THOSE BORN OVERSEAS. GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN STILL ACUNT FOR THE MAJORY OF THE 555 NEW DIAGNOS OF HIV 2022, BUT OVER A 10-YEAR PERD THE SE NUMBERS HAVE CLED BY 50 PER CENT. READ MOREMORE THAN 70 PER CENT OF MIGRANT WOMEN ATRALIA SAY THEY N'T AFFORD TO SEE A DOCTORDR SKYE MCGREGOR OM THE KIRBY INSTUTE SAID THE DATA REVEALED THE NEED FOR PREVENTN STRATEGI TARGETED AT ALL POPULATNS. "THE DATA SUGGT THAT, TO ELIMATE HIV, THERE NEEDS TO BE CREASG FOC ON PREVENTN STRATEGI THAT ENPASS ALL POPULATNS, CLUDG HETEROSEXUAL MEN AND WOMEN, PARTICULARLY AS WE ALL BEG TO TRAVEL MORE FOLLOWG THE RELAXG OF COVID-19 NTROL MEASUR," SHE TOLD SBS NEWS."THIS CLUS SAFE SEX TRAVEL MPAIGNS AND REGULAR SEXUAL HEALTH CHECKS UPS WHICH CLU HIV TTG."ATRALIA MOVG CLOSER TO 2030 TARGETDARRYL O'DONNELL, THE CEO OF ADVOCY GROUP HEALTH EQUY MATTERS, SAID ATRALIA'S SUCCS RCG OVERALL TRANSMISSN RAT THE LAST IS PRAISEWORTHY. "BY GLOBAL STANDARDS, AND ALSO WH ATRALIA'S HISTORY, THE ARE THE LOWT (ANNUAL) NUMBERS WE'VE SEEN TO DATE," HE SAID. HE SAID MONORG WHERE TRANSMISSN IS GROWG WILL BE KEY TO ACHIEVG THE 2030 GOAL SET BY UNAIDS TO ACHIEVE A 90 PER CENT RCTN HIV FECTNS AND AIDS-RELATED ATHS PARED TO THE 2010 BASELE. "SO WE ARE VERY EXCED AND PLEASED TO BE TRACKG TOWARDS VERY LOW RAT OF HIV TRANSMISSN. BUT THIS IS AN FECT DISEASE, SO YOU N'T STOP WORKG TOWARDS ELIMATN UNTIL 'S OVER. IF WE STOP OUR WORK, THE EPIMIC WILL TAKE OFF AGA."INCREASED ACCS TO HIV TREATMENT KEY TO RCED TRANSMISSNHE SAYS CREASED ACCS TO THE PRCRIPTN ANTIRETROVIRAL TABLET MEDITN PREP (PRE-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS) HAS BEEN KEY TO THE SUCCS ACHIEVED DRIVG DOWN S OVER THE LAST .THE TREATMENT IS SUBSIDISED BY THE ERNMENT THROUGH THE PHARMACTIL BENEFS SCHEME. ADVOT HAVE ALSO BEEN SUCCSFUL HELPG TO BRG ABOUT A ERNMENT-FUND SCHEME ACROSS ATRALIAN STAT AND TERRORI, WHICH ALLOWS THOSE WHOUT MEDIRE TO ACCS HIV TREATMENT EE OF CHARGE OR AT LOW ST THROUGH ERNMENT-FUND HOSPAL PHARMACI.THE ANNOUNCEMENT WAS MA BY THE FERAL ERNMENT ON 1 DECEMBER 2021, WH ATRALIAN STAT AND TERRORI PLETG THE ROLLOUT OF THE SCHEME THIS YEAR.COSTELLO, WELED THE CREASED ACCS, SAYG IS CRIL TO ACHIEVG THE 2030 GOAL TO "END THE AIDS EPIMIC". "IT WILL MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE BEE WE KNOW THAT IF PEOPLE ARE ON MEDITN THEY N MATA AN UNTECTABLE VIRAL LOAD AND THAT'S REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT [WHEN TO ENDG HIV TRANSMISSN]."STIGMA STILL A BARRIERCOSTELLO SAYS HER OWN LIVED EXPERIENCE WH HIV AND THE STORI OF OTHERS THE POSIVE LIFE WORK UNRLE THE IMPORTANCE OF BUILDG TST AND RAPPORT WH TARGET POPULATNS. SHE SAID ANY SUCCSFUL PUBLIC HEALTH MPAIGN WOULD NEED TO E IMAGERY AND LANGUAGE THAT REACHED THE TARGET DIENCE. "I SEE A LOT OF YOUNG WOMEN HERE AND THEY SAY THAT EVEN WHEN THEY GO TO SEXUAL HEALTH CLICS, ALL OF THE RMATN ON THE WALLS AND PAMPHLETS DON'T SPEAK TO THEM."COSTELLO REMEMBERS BEG GIVEN THE PROGNOSIS THE 1990S THAT SHE WOULD ONLY LIVE FOR THREE YEARS. WH THE VELOPMENT OF HIV TREATMENTS, SHE HAS NOW BEEN LIVG WH THE DISEASE FOR 29 YEARS.READ MORETHE US HAS BEE THE LATT NATN TO REMOVE S 'GAY BLOOD BAN'. WILL ATRALIA FOLLOW?SHE SAID STIGMA STILL EXISTED AND THAT ULD IMPACT THE EQUENCY WH WHICH PEOPLE SOUGHT SEXUAL HEALTH SCREENGS, AS WELL AS HOW QUICKLY THEY GOT ONTO THE MEDITN. "SOMETHG THAT WE OFTEN HEAR OM PEOPLE WHO ARE NEWLY DIAGNOSED: I DIDN'T THK I WAS AT RISK," COSTELLO SAID."GETTG A HEALTH SCREENG IS ABOUT KNOWG WHAT YOUR HEALTH SUATN IS. THAT EMPOWERS YOU TO MAKE REALLY GOOD CISNS ABOUT YOUR HEALTH OUT AND YOUR HEALTH GOG FORWARD."SHE SAID THOSE WHO ARE SEXUALLY ACTIVE SHOULD BE HAVG A FULL SEXUAL HEALTH SCREEN AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR. IT'S REMEND EVERY THREE MONTHS FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN. WHAT WOULD A SUCCSFUL AWARENS MPAIGN LOOK LIKE?THE ANISATN IS ABOUT TO LNCH A NEW HEALTH MPAIGN FEATURG THE SLOGAN 'N'T PASS ON', WHICH IS SPIRED BY SUCCSFUL MPAIGNS UNTRI LIKE THE UK AND CANADA. "WE WORK WH PREVENTN MSAGG. WE CERTALY WORK AROUND TTG AND TREATMENT AS WELL," COSTELLO SAID."BUT YOU'VE ALSO GOT TO FACTOR STIGMA AND DISCRIMATN. I DON'T THK WE'VE ACHIEVED A GREAT AL HOW HIV IS SEEN THE WIR POPULATN; AND THE STIGMA THAT STILL EXISTS AROUND GETTG A NEW HIV DIAGNOSIS."SHE SAID THE 1987 GRIM REAPER AD THAT WAS BROADST ON ATRALIAN TELEVISN ED FEAR AS A TACTIC, WHICH END UP FURTHER STIGMATISG THOSE LIVG WH HIV. COSTELLO SAID EFFECTIVE MSAGG TODAY WOULD NEED TO E MORE EMPOWERG LANGUAGE."IF WE'RE TALKG ABOUT A BROAR NVERSATN, WE NEED TO REALLY TALK ABOUT NORMALISG, FOR WANT OF A BETTER EXPRSN, HIV. WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT SEXUAL HEALTH AS SIMPLY ANOTHER WAY OF LOOKG AFTER YOURSELF AND YOUR OWN HEALTH," SHE SAID."PEOPLE NEED TO BE REALLY PROACTIVE ABOUT SEXUAL HEALTH, BUT ALSO ABOUT THEIR HEALTH MORE BROADLY. IF WE N SOMEHOW RPORATE SEXUAL HEALTH TO AN OVERALL HEALTH AND WELLBEG APPROACH, I THK THAT WOULD HAVE BETTER OUT."ABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANRS ANOTHER AT-RISK GROUPHIV DIAGNOS AMONG ABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANR PEOPL HAVE CREASED OVER THE PAST YEAR, WH 25 DIAGNOS 2022.BUNDJALUNG MAN ROBERT MONAGHAN IS THE MANAGER OF ABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANR HEALTH REARCH AT THE KIRBY INSTUTE. HE SAID EVEN THOUGH THE TOTAL NUMBER WAS LOW, WAS IMPORTANT TO ENSURE DIDN'T NTUE TO RISE. "WE NEED TO GET AHEAD OF THIS. IT ULD BE VERY TASTROPHIC IF THIS GETS OUT [SPREADS]," HE TOLD SBS NEWS."EVEN THOUGH THE NUMBERS ARE LOW, ULD BE VERY DIRE THE ABORIGAL MUNY. ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE NATURE OF ABORIGAL PEOPLE, LIVG VERY CLOSE TO PROXIMY TO ONE ANOTHER REMOTE MUNI; THE TTG FACILI AREN'T THE SAME AS THE METROPOLAN AREAS." ROBERT MONAGHAN SAYS ACTN NEEDS TO BE TAKEN TO ENSURE HIV TRANSMISSN DON'T RISE ABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANR MUNI. SOURCE: SUPPLIED / KIRBY INSTUTEMONAGHAN SAID EFFORTS NEED TO FOC ON REACHG ABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANRS THE 16-29 AGE GROUP."THEY TEND TO BE LS NCERNED ABOUT THEIR HEALTH. WE NEED TO GET TO THEM EARLY," HE SAID.MONAGHAN SAID ANY PUBLIC HEALTH MSAGG WOULD NEED TO RCE STIGMA, NOT ADD TO . HE ALSO DISMISSED THE FEAR TACTICS ED THE 1987 GRIM REAPER AD. "I THK 2023 WE'VE MOVED ON A LOT OM THE GRIM REAPER APPROACH [AND] SRG THE LIVG DAYLIGHTS OUT OF PEOPLE. WE'RE MORE ACCEPTG OF PEOPLE LIVG WH HIV. WE'RE MORE ACCEPTG OF GENR DIVERSY. SERVIC WANT TO ENGAGE. BUT IS HOW TO ENGAGE — THAT IS THE CHALLENGE."ADDNAL REPORTG BY LUCY MURRAYSHARE8 M READPUBLISHED 21 JULY 2023 6:19AMBY BIWA KWANSOURCE: SBS NEWSTAGSHEALTHATRALIASHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU

“There were thoands of ex-servicemen who were mp, I thk I went through 300 of them myself, ” he told the magaze, a py of which is prerved by the Atralian Lbian and Gay Archiv.

When one man harassed Smh about beg gay, a iend remd him that Pkie was a three-time featherweight boxg champn. "We had s of homosexuals really fallg love.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

In the terts of general happs we re-arranged some room occupants and eventually got all the homos one block, " he said. “A quarter of homosexual s Queensland crimal urts across the war volved airmen, seamen, pilots or others the ary, ” he says.

WATCH PERFORMANC OM THE 'SBS GAYO DAEJEON 2022'!

While Atralia’s official ban on gay and lbian service was repealed 1992, LGBT+ soldiers served long before then.

“There n be ltle doubt there were gay soldiers [... Before repeal, the Atralian Defence Force policy was to remove gay men “sympathetilly and wh discretn”.

But right back to Atralia's early years, Smaal says was easy for gay men to jo the armed forc.

SBS GAYO DAEJEON 2022 DATE, TIME, LP & WHERE TO WATCH MIC FTIVAL

“The irony, of urse, was that they end up an all-male environment wh limed opportuny for female pany – the potential for homo-sex had never been greater, ” Smaal says. Sometim was latent homosexualy, sometim otherwise ‘straight’ men found themselv havg sex wh other men. “It was amazg the number of gay people the POW mp, ” the Atralian serviceman told Outrage, “well not so much gay as bisexual – bee they uldn’t get a woman they’d have a man.

Ined, the forc of World War One and World War Two may have been a surprisgly liberatg place for gay men and women.

Gay bars Kgs Cross bulged wh servicemen and sailors as warships me to port. There are multiple s of veterans beg arrted for homosexualy offenc after the war, tellg thori they were pursug sir disvered the armed forc. After the war, a gay bar lled ‘Diggers’ even opened Sydney.

SOUTH KOREAN BROADSTER CENSORS GAY KISS 'BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY'

“I do not believe I have ever loved a woman more eply than my mate, ” said one Atralian WWII veteran, who went on to assert the relatnship wasn't homosexual.

The l between gay love and straight mathip were difficult to discern for some. Ackerley, an openly gay Brish war hero om World War One, wrote an acclaimed play tled The Prisoners of War upon his return to England. While Ackerley's work has not passed through to mastream textbooks, the works of a fellow gay ntemporary have.

Absent om lson plans is Owen's apparent homosexualy, hidn by his fay but unvered by his bgrapher. Before the war's end, he spent time socialisg wh other gay Brish lerary lumari.

SOUTH KOREAN BROADSTER CENSORS GAY KISS ‘BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY’

But gay soldiers weren’t only fightg for the alli. Magn Hirschfeld documented numero stanc of homosexualy among German soldiers durg World War One. The gay Jewish doctor – who was later exiled by the Nazis – wrote of how German soldiers would risk severe reprimand to sneak off to the lols’ ho occupied France to have sex.

Unr fire, gay men would charge to “the thickt ra of bombs and the most adly attacks, ” Hirschfeld wrote. The experience of gay servicewomen closely paralleled their male unterparts.

Ford wr that female homosexualy was ls acknowledged pole society than male homosexualy - many recs had never heard of the term ‘lbian’. Durg World War One and most of World War Two, there was no ncerted effort to velop a policy on homosexualy Atralia's ary.

DEEP WATER: WERE 30 UNSOLVED SYDNEY ATHS REALLY GAY HATE CRIM?

The Amerins, however, were very ncerned about gay men the ranks. Rearch by Smaal and his lleague, renowned Atralian LGBT+ historian Graham Willett, found that the US reported to Atralia that they had disvered a large number of servicemen New Guea havg gay sex – and that Atralians were volved. “Homosexualy today is fed as beg attracted to your own sex, back then was largely fed by genr s – mascule or feme, 'bch' or 'butch', ” Smaal says.

Genr rol were pervasive even wh homosexual relatnships - the ‘girls’ New Guea would often take a receptive role durg sex. “It was difficult and plex enterprise – and there’s a temptatn to jt bury their head the sand, ignore and hope homosexualy go away, ” Smaal says. ‘Personaly typ’ and ‘thentic homosexuals’ were then able to be medilly discharged.

In Atralia, a le mandatg discharge for homosexualy would ntue some form or other until the Keatg ernment’s repeal 1992.