Imagine being a proud member of the LGBTI community, and a survivor of childhood and adolescent conversion therapies, and seeing the organisation that abused you and tried to make you fit heteronormative stereotypes welcomed into the Melbourne Pride March. With no apology, and no evidence of change to their practices.
Co-executive director Tony Briffa writes on being intersex and Maltese Australian in the book Living and Loving in Diversity: An anthology of Australian, in a new anthology, with an extract in Archer Magazine.
"Coming out" means something different for people with intersex variations, in contrast to the experience of LGB and trans/gender diverse people. Here's Tony Briffa in the Star Observer.
Tony Briffa has been interviewed by Claudia Calleja of the Times of Malta, while a Gender Identity Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics Bill proceeds through that nation's parliament.
Tony Briffa spoke at Monash University's Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, on the human rights of intersex people, on 7 October from 6pm to 7.30pm. The Castan Centre is part of the university's Faculty of Law.
Tony Briffa appears in an article in the "Body and Soul" magazine today, in the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), Sunday Telegraph (NSW), Sunday Mail (QLD), Sunday Mail (SA), Sunday Territorian, Sunday Times and the Sunday Tasmanian.
Tony Briffa appears in WESTANDPROUD, a new movie collecting eight interviews on lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex life in Melbourne's west.
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