Coping with COVID-19: Queer and Quarantining
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LGBTIQ+ communities are incredible at supporting each other. On dancefloors and at parties, in the spaces we have carved out for each other, queer people have developed sophisticated systems of community care. We may have to be physically distant, but this beautiful queer community is here to get your through.
Where you can turn to:
Switchboard Victoria: 1800 184 527 (3pm - 12am every day): Switchboard Victoria provides peer-driven support services for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and gender diverse, intersex, queer and asexual (LGBTIQA+) people, their families, allies and communities.
All the Queens Men: helping people stay active and socially connected by taking their dance club online. They are hosting free Digital Dance Clubs every second Sunday.
The Institute of Many: a private, online support community for PLHIV.
Intersex Human Rights Australia Facebook Page: connect with members, friends and family of people with intersex variation
QLife Australia: Online (3pm – midnight, everyday) or 1800 184 527 (6pm to midnight): for LGBTI peer support and referral contact.
Transgender Victoria: peer-led trans and gender diverse support groups.
Thorne Harbour Health: counselling and peer-led groups including support for alcohol and other drugs, and anxiety.
What you can read:
Quarantining in a Non-LGBTQ+ Affirming Environment: Wren Sanders at the LGBTIQ+ publishing site, them. Offer some great idea for being isolated and queer.
Sex, Intimacy and Coronavirus: While COVID-19 isn't a sexually transmitted infection, it has impacted the way queers may hook up.
COVID-19 and HIV Are Not the Same. But They’re Similar in Many Ways That Matter: Many people are connecting the experience of the HIV/AIDS crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. This great essay unpacks that connection.
Living with HIV during COVID-19: Thorne Harbour Health, Living Positive Victoria, and Positive Women Victoria are encouraging people living with HIV (PLHIV) to take additional precautions in the face of the changing landscape around 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Transhub COVID-19 Resources: a digital information and resource platform for all trans and gender diverse (TGD) people in NSW, our loved ones, allies and health providers.
