Budi Sudarto, Director of Ananda Training and Consultancy is a member of the LGBTIQ+ community in Melbourne, Yayanto Damanik Tan, artist and member of the LGBTIQ+ “Selamat Datang” in Sydney and Alfred Pek, member of the Queer Community in Sydney shared their experiences as LGBTIQ+ people to Sri Dean. For them 'World Pride' is the agency of their existence.“We exist… we are made in Indonesia…..World Pride gives us visibility….”
Some unknown people congregate at Federation Square in Melbourne, Feb 2023 (Courtesy: SPD).
In December, Indonesia passed laws to criminalise sex outside of marriage in three years’ time. What happens then to the LGBTIQ+ people in Indonesia? They don’t exist, do they?
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