Who cared?

The queer community has always had to look after each other, fight to be recognised, and battle to be treated as human beings. Sister Clare Nolan, Julie Bates and Ken Davis talk about a time when the LGBTQIA+ community had to band together as the deadly virus known as HIV/Aids rampaged through their friends and family. Moving to the present, Renee Dixon talks about the fight to help and protect queer refugees coming to Australia for a safer life.

It struck the most intelligent, the most brilliant people, the poor, the marginalised. It had no discrimination.

Sister Clare Nolan on the HIV crisis in Australia in the 1980's.

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Who cared?

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Even English classes are structured like, tell me where you're from, with whom you came? 'Did you come with a husband?' I'm like, 'No, I came with a wife'. Yeah, my English is not good, but I know the difference between two.

LGBTQ Refugee Advocate Renee Dixon

Renee Dixson, Co-founder of the Forcibly Displaced Network

Credits

Host: Farz Edraki

Producers: Laura Brierley Newton, Olivia O'Flynn

Sound Design and Mix: Laura Brierley Newton

Executive Producer: Kate Montague and Lorna Clarkson

Theme Music: What! By the Vovos

Art: Siena Zadro

SBS Team: Joel Supple, Max Gosford, Bernadette Phương Nam Nguyễn, Philip Soliman