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Supporting our LGBTIQA+ Youth
Friends, family, other people that I have, originally, we always had to build that thick skin. We’ve always had that thick skin because we’re a minority. And then you put people who are Aboriginal and then start to come out as being part of the LGBTIQ+ community on top of that, then you’re a minority within a minority, and then you have to build a thicker skin. You have to try not to let everything get you down. Definitely find your support network. A support network is probably the best thing you could have.
Just my friend, he said to me one time, “We’re very good friends of mine, he’s always said, you know what your armour is? Yeah, it’s your clothes and your makeup.” ‘Cause you go out there and use it. You can be like schlumpy and you’re like, “No, I’m gonna go out there, I’m gonna kick goals and I’m gonna win.” And I do this J, and they are constantly so. When my cousin, up in my mind, is to put you to a Lake country, that’s when I met Colorado and heard all of her cyclical trends and the ladies.
Women who I was singing, that’s when I was introduced to back and forth, or to, I’m in a shelter and, oh God, it’s fire dinner to be who I wanted to be. And I said if I could be what I got in my community, see a just a normal person, I mean, there’s no such thing as normal, but showing my Aboriginal people, tactic a little bit different foods, back up community life and bring the colour when and everywhere you go, ask me am I doing fine? Mentholated, yeah.
It’s quite hard living, quite hard being an adult for me. It’s just like the people that I’ve met and the experiences that I’ve gained have really helped shape my sexuality and come to terms with it. Ya know what works for me is definitely remembering stuff that I like. So yeah, like I love to sing sometimes and dance and dress up. And I remember something, I really sometimes—what I sometimes do when I’m home is I just dress up, being home, one of my beautiful ball gowns and I just walk down the stairs and I just make a cup of tea or a coffee or I’m making pasta in a big ball gown.
We don’t have—we don’t have any family, ’cause, but make them never do. Communities, no matter if you move away from, you can really use silk on black violence in different parts of Australia. We’ll still accept you, you know, the secrets that land, you know, black fellas everywhere.
Alright, say, I’m one sort of made me change stuff about myself was when I was diagnosed with depression. That’s definitely the main thing that was going through my mind when I went to doctors about having depression, is that I wanted to be around for my family and friends. Yeah, and I definitely did type sex and [Music] counselling. Yeah, it’s helping me and I got depression even.
I think what helped me with that was actually seeing a professional and talking about what was bugging me and actually breaking down the stigma of seeing someone, like a counsellor or like a psychiatrist or psychologist. Yeah, I didn’t realize I was gay until I was even lucky at twelve. I didn’t come out until then, but then since then, it’s never been an issue for me to be able to go to the doctor and say that I am gay and that’s that. There’s a lot of DBT IQ people like you who come in. There’s no judgment.
I mean, I think health workers and doctors and nurses are purely here to help you, and there’s no judgment coming in to consult rooms.
Our ancestors have the belief in respecting the land, the trees, the animals, the spirits, you know, our sky spirits, our land spirits. How is it going to be hard for us to respect that? You know, our own family members have differences in terms of sexuality.
Oh my God, it’s totally important to speak to you for that sexual film probably because they’re our future. But you just—you’ve always going to be our future and we need to teach them about sexual health and sexual identities. Also, tell them the struggles that we’ve been, all of us have been through, whether we’re people under the LGBTQIQ umbrella or not. You know, it’s about changing and it’s about revolving.
How can you be a pathway for the LGBTI community? You know, if one community could change, but you know, things are changing. Everything is still going in progress. It’s not a choice, it’s not a phase, it’s just the way things are. We can’t choose that. No amount of reconditioning or, you know, mental therapy is going to change that. We just need to be accepting in terms of this is one of our people and we need to help them find their way in life and find where they fit within our, you know, societal structure, whether it’s cultural, whether it’s mainstream, whatever the case may be.
Neatness, sister girl, it had to be. Progress comes slowly, you know, where we are. We are a destiny, a young nation, that we’re still learning about ourselves and about essentially what I’m here is a bad time that we, as an indigenous people, make it into our own perspective a culture where we are.
Video by youngdeadlyfree.org.au
