GLBTIQ links (advocacy, groups, and more)

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BiNSW (an organisation in NSW Australia)

http://www.bi-nsw.org.au/info.html#aims

Goals:

- To promote and celebrate bisexual pride, bisexual visibility, and diversity;

 

- To promote better understanding and acceptance of bisexuals, bisexuality, and sexuality that is not limited by gender;

 

- To campaign for, and work towards, removal of discrimination against people on the basis of their sexuality;

 
 You can also meet up with other bisexual people by sending a blank email to the BiNSW emailing list
sby-list-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.

GLBTIQ friendly churches that don't condemn people's sexuality:

http://www.mccgoodshepherd.com/homo.htm

http://www.gaychurch.org/Find_a_Church/foriegn_nations/australia.htm

 

Books on being a GLBTIQ person that are worth reading or avoiding (with a list of Christian gay affirming books): http://www.amazon.com/Straight-Narrow-Compassion-Clarity-Homosexuality/product-reviews/0830818588/ref=cm_cr_dp_hist_1?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&filterBy=addOneStar

Fantastic reviews of a documentary on how disgusting programs to "cure" people of being gay have destroyed people's mental health and shattered lives: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107748/usercomments

The sublime slacktivist's arguments against homophobic interpretations of the bible: http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2004/07/the_abominable_.html

http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2009/04/one-cheer-for-fred-phelps.html#comments

http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2009/04/the-burkhalogic-of-nom.html#comments

Some of the comments to slacktivist's posts are also worth looking over.

http://www.angelfire.com/az/christiangaynet/Australia.html

The official website of the divine Margaret Cho, comedian extraordinaire: http://www.margaretcho.com/content/tag/glbt/

Cho is renowned for her pro feminist, anti racist and pro GLBTIQ stance and commentary in her comedic routines. Worth a look!