Research Catalog

Title

Growing up queer in Australia / edited by Benjamin Law.

Publication

Carlton, VIC : Black Inc., [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

Law, Benjamin, 1982-

Description

xii, 340 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"Queer" is a lens through which the world can be viewed differently " Compiled by celebrated author and journalist Benjamin Law, 'Growing Up Queer in Australia' assembles voices from across the spectrum of LGBTIQA+ identity. Spanning diverse places, eras, genders, ethnicities and experiences, these are the stories of growing up queer in Australia. For better or worse, sooner or later, life conspires to reveal you to yourself, and this is growing up. "I marked the day in my adolescent diary with a single blank page". "The mantle of 'queer migrant' compelled me to keep going - to go further." "I never 'came out' to my parents, I felt I owed them no explanation." "I was thirty-eight and figured it was time to come out to her." "All I heard from the pulpit were grim hints." "No amount of YouTube videos and queer think pieces prepared me for this moment." "I became acutely aware of the parts of myself that were unpalatable to queers who grew up in the city." "My queerness was born in a hot dry land that was never ceded." "Even now, I sometimes think that I don't know my own desire."

Subjects

• Sexual minority community
• Sexual minority community > Australia
• Gender identity
• Australia
• Sexual minorities > Australia

Contents

Introduction / Benjamin Law -- Freedom of Heart / Holly Throsby -- Shame and Forgiveness / David Marr -- How to be Both / Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen -- Rob, and Queer Family / Nayuka Gorrie -- Caritas / Jack Kirne -- St Louis / Oliver Reeson -- Boobs, Rags and Judy Blume / Phoebe Hart -- From Dreams to Living / Nadine Smit -- The Most Natural of Things / Justine Hyde -- Binary School / Roz Bellamy -- Why I've Stopped Coming Out to My Mum / Vivian Quynh Pham -- Training to Be Me / Cindy Zhou -- The Watering Hole / Samuel Leighton-Dore -- Car Windows / Tim Sinclair -- Bent Man Running / Steve Dow -- The Bent Bits Are the Best Bits / Jax Jacki Brown -- Reunion / Kelly Parry -- You Can Take the Queer Out of the Country / M'ck McKeague -- The Risk / Thom Mitchell -- When Worlds Collide, Words Fail / Thinesh Thillainadarajah -- Radelaide/Sadelaide / Gemma Killen -- LGBTI-Q&A / William Yang -- LGBTI-Q&A / Georgie Stone -- LGBTI-Q&A / Tony Ayres -- LGBTQI-Q&A / Sally Rugg -- LGBTQI-Q&A / Kate McCartney -- LGBTQI-Q&A / Christos Tsiolkas -- Coming In / Joo-Inn Chew -- Androphobia / Heather Joan Day -- Living in a Fridge / Michael Farrell -- Wanting / Fiona Wright -- Coming Out, Coming Home / Adolfo Aranjuez -- The Wall of Shame / Natalie Macken -- Meinmasha / Atul Joshi -- Kissing Brad Davis / Scott McKinnon -- Something Special / Rebecca Shaw -- Floored / Nic Holas -- Not Special / Tim McGuire -- Jack and Jill and Me / Stephanie Convery -- To My Man of Seventeen Years / Henry von Doussa -- Angry Cleaning / Nathan Mills -- The Exchange / Alice Boyle -- Faggot / Beau Kondos -- So You Wanted Honesty . . . / Sue-Ann Post -- Sometimes I Call You Even Though I Know You Can't Answer. It's a Symbol, I Think . . . / Anthony Nocera -- How Not to Quench Your Thirst / Jean Velasco -- Silence and Words / Aron Koh Paul -- homosexual / Mike Mullins -- A Robust Game of Manball / Patrick Lenton -- The Equality of Love / Yamiko Marama -- A City Set Upon a Hill / Dang Nguyen -- Trust Me (Tips for My Teenage Self) / Thomas Wilson-White.

Call Number

JFD 20-2461

ISBN

• 9781760640866
• 1760640867
• 9781743821084 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019401319

OCLC

1111534880

Title

Growing up queer in Australia / edited by Benjamin Law.

Publisher

Carlton, VIC : Black Inc., [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Law, Benjamin, 1982- editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 20-2461