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Gay and Lesbian

Issues and

Psychology

Review

Guest Editor

Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli

on behalf of the AGMC

Inc (Australian GLBTIQ

Multicultural Council

Incorporated)

The Australian

Psychological

Society Ltd.

ISSN 1833-4512

Editor

Damien W. Riggs, The University of Adelaide

Editorial Board

Graeme Kane, Private Practice

Jim Malcom, The University of Western Sydney

Liz Short, Victoria University

Jane Edwards, Spencer Gulf Rural Health School

Murray Drummond, The University of South Australia

Gordon Walker, Monash University

Robert Morris, Private Practice

Brett Toelle, University of Sydney

Warrick Arblaster, Mental Health Policy Unit, ACT

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Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review

Volume 4 Number 1

Special Issue: 'Living and Loving in Diversity': Interweaving Sexualities, Genders and Ethnicities

Contents

From the Editor

Damien W. Riggs

Guest Editorial: ÒPresenting A Sampler of How Diversity is Lived and LovedÓ

Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli on behalf of the AGMC Inc (Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Council

Incorporated)

Articles

ÒEmpowering Ourselves, Empowering Our CommunitiesÑ: A History of the AGMCÓ

Cinzia Ambrosio

Marginalia: living on the edge

Rosanne Bersten

ÒMy Own Version of JewishÓ

Margie Fischer

ÒWithout Love, There WonÓt be UsÓ: A Narrative of a GAM Î GWM Couple

Budiadi Sudarto

The Hippocratic Oath, western medicine, and the children of Hermes and Aphrodite

Tony Briffa

ÒLiving in Harmony With Your ContradictionsÓ: Lesbian health in a multicultural context

Adele Murdolo

ÒPlease ExplainÓ: Is it that hard to link homophobia and racism?

Phong Nguyen

ÒBelieve what you will, but this is the way it isÓ: Religions and the spirituality of GLBTIQ

people

Rabbi Jonathan Keren Black

Recommendations from the AGMC Conference, 2004

Shanton Chang and Demetry Apostle

Book Review

Queer Muslim Book and Resource Review

Alyena Mohummadally

Calls for Papers

GLIP Review: Mental health and LGBT people

Gay & Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2008

FROM THE EDITOR

DAMIEN W. RIGGS

I am immensely pleased that this journal has

the privilege of publishing this collection of

writing. Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli and all involved

with the Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Coun-

cil (AGMC) and the production of this issue

offer us some of the latest and most exciting

research being undertaken within Australia

upon the diverse experiences of members of

lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex and

queer communities.

•

Providing historical accounts of the de-

velopment of GLBTIQ communities,

thus adding to the growing body of ar-

chives that document the lives of

GLBTIQ people

•

Speaking of the ÒIÓ in the acronym

ÒGLBTIQÓ, and the role that health prac-

tices play in policing the boundaries of

both sexuality and gender

•

And perhaps most importantly, signal-

ling the internal conflicts and differ-

ences within marginalised groups,

rather than attempting to present a

forcibly homogenous view of diverse

GLBTIQ communities.

The publication of this issue, alongside papers

published in previous issues of the Review,

thus contributes significantly to our goal of

broadening in many ways the scope of what

thus far has been defined as Òlesbian and gay

psychologyÓ. These include:

I am thus excited and inspired by this issue of

the Review, and hope that it will play a central

role in the ongoing development of a uniquely

Australian agenda for research on GLBTIQ

communities that starts from the diversity

within such communities, and which seeks to

recognise how marginalisation occurs both

from outside, and within, GLBTIQ communi-

ties.

•

Opening out the field to a broad range

of voices, including those working in

both academia and in the community

sector, in addition to religious leaders,

activists, early career researchers and

postgraduate students.

•

Directing our attention away from the

Òusual suspectsÓ - white middle-class

lesbians and gay men - and toward the

members of GLBTIQ communities

whose religious, ethnic, cultural or racial

affiliations are not subsumable within

dominant accounts of GLBTIQ lives

(premised as they typically are upon the

aforementioned Òusual suspectsÓ)

In concluding my comments on this issue, I

would encourage all readers to be mindful of

the fact that ongoing attention to the diverse

experiences of GLBTIQ people in Australia oc-

curs in a context of Indigenous sovereignty

(where sovereignty rights have never been

ceded by First Nations people, and where non-

indigenous people thus continue to live and

work upon land that is illegally possessed),

and that it is therefore vitally important that

we all attend to the ongoing ways in which

histories of colonisation shape our lives as

Australians.

•

Drawing upon a broad range of re-

search methodologies, including per-

sonal narratives, theoretical analysis,

analyses of interview data, and political

commentary

•

Highlighting how racism, ableism, reli-

gious discrimination, classism and gen-

der normativity function within GLBTIQ

communities

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Gay & Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2008

GUEST EDITORIAL: PRESENTING A SAMPLER OF HOW

DIVERSITY IS LIVED AND LOVED

MARIA PALLOTTA-CHIAROLLI ON BEHALF OF THE AGMC INC (AUSTRALIAN

GLBTIQ MULTICULTURAL COUNCIL INCORPORATED)

ÐBut how will you do your research? Do Italian

lesbians exist?Ñ This was the response I re-

ceived from an Anglo-feminist academic in

1991. I had just told her I was about to re-

search the experiences of lesbians from Italian

backgrounds for my Masters in WomenÓs Stud-

ies.

relation to gender, sexuality and ethnicity.

These regulations, expectations and codes are

coming from a personÓs predominantly hetero-

normative and gendernormative eth-

nic/religious families and communities; pre-

dominantly white middle class GLBTIQ com-

munities; and predominantly heteronormative

and gendernormative wider social, political,

educational, media and health institutions and

systems.

They certainly did exist, my Italian lesbian

friends reminded me as they critiqued my very

heteronormative research into Italian-

Australian womenÓs lives and experiences. I

hope I have come a long way since then

(Pallotta-Chiarolli, 2004).

Savin-Williams (1998) presents three main

developmental tasks of GLBTIQ young people

from diverse ethnic/religious backgrounds that

are not necessarily experienced by GLBTIQ

young people from dominant Anglo-white

backgrounds. First, the young person needs to

cultivate both a sexual identity and an ethnic

identity. Second, the young person must re-

solve or manage any conflicts that may arise

in claiming allegiance to an ethnic/religious

reference group and to a gay community; and

third, the young person needs to negotiate

any stigmas and discrimination encountered

because of the interconnections of homopho-

bia, racism, sexism and classism.

Indeed, in the spirit of the groundbreaking

collection of articles in Multicultural Queer:

Australian Narratives edited by Peter Jackson

and Gerard Sullivan in 1999, this journal issue

is one more significant example of the increas-

ing awareness, activism, research, and pol-

icy/programme development in Australia in

relation to the multiple marginalities and inter-

sectionalities when Òliving the rainbowÓ: inter-

weaving gender diversity, cultural diversity

and sexual diversity. The establishment of the

AGMC (Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Council

Inc) and the many multicultural GLBTIQ social

and support groups are a testimony to the

need to engage with peopleÓs lived experi-

ences of negotiating and interweaving multiple

group allegiances, multiple community belong-

ings and the subsequent borderdwelling

(Pallotta-Chiarolli, 2005).

Many GLBTIQ young people from diverse eth-

nic backgrounds want to belong to and feel

they have a place in their families and eth-

nic/religious communities. Their eth-

nic/religious community and family can nur-

ture a cultural identification, offer a deep

sense of ethnic heritage and spiritual values,

and provide a sense of self within the context

of a family that shares a youthÓs struggles and

oppressions such as racism and classism

(Greene, 1997; Jackson & Sullivan, 1999; Pal-

lotta-Chiarolli, 1998).

Being GLBTIQ and raised within an eth-

nic/religious group requires the negotiation

and interweaving of varying and multiple

regulations, expectations and social codes in

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