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^ It . '^ - LeonaRDs Da vinci j : I ceieci?atisn SF tlie uves $F fan, cav, cisexuai, ttpanscenrei? ano inf€i?sex i^esHe. -UQ .email list, please contact the Queer Sexuality Organiser, Kns Coonan.on (07) 3377 22 M. Juq.cdu.au QUEER SEXUALITY yuuj by your UQ Union. SEMPER FLOREAT QUEER EDITION 2003 THE Ul\iIVERSITY OF QUI:ElIJi3LAND LIBRARY Contents: Indigenolls people have been, often violently, dispossessed of their land __________________ 2 and culture. They remain some of EDITORIALS the most marginalised in our society. QUEER SPECIAL There can be no social progress Design a Logo for QC 2004 4 without recognition of the injustices Queer Role Models 5 suffered by Indigenous Australians. Centrelink Successfully Processes Claim 6 Queers and the Common Youth Allowance 6 Princess Queer and the Not So Magical Centrelink Application 7 SEMPER FLOREAT Sodomy 8 ~~~ THE UQ UNION NEWSPAPER 10 Coloured Fantasy: Racial Fetishisation and the Queer Community 11 Why the Gay Marriage Debate Sux, & Questions for the Radical Queer Left 12 Editors: David Lavercombe Fitting In 13 Shona Nystrom Schools Outreach Campaign 14 Jim Wilson Arts Editor: Sofia Ham UNION STUFF President's Report 15 Greetings All 15 Telephone: 3377 2237 Facsimile: 3377 2220 OTHER STUFF [email protected] Amnesty Creative Writing Competition Winners 16 Speaking Out 18 Semper Floreat Offices Are Blokes OK? 19 Union Complex Howard Now Making Parliamenta~ Decisions Using Paper Toy 20 The University of Queensland Illuminate Your University 21 St Lucia, 4067 Touring Throughout Europe 22 How to evict your Housemate; a step by step guide 23 Unleash the Gimp 24 The views expressed in Semper Non Sequitur: Sequential Horror 25 Floreat do not necessarily reflect Aunty Jan: Modern Manners 26 those of the editors, the UQ Union, or First the Beanbags, Now the Photocopiers 28 The University of Queensland. I Enjoy Blowing Smoke At People 29 Drinking Games 30 The editors encourage you to submit Keeping Us Down 31 your own views for publication (see Hipster Freedom 32 page 2). Will DVD Kill the Writer Star? 33 10 Things I Hate About Teens 34 I Have A Complete and Total Lack of Interest In You 35 SweAM~e ~ Pet Shop Boys: Some Heartaches You Just Can't Dance Away 36 Ode to a Grecian Urn 38 FATS: FILM ART THEATRE SOUND Film 39 Sound --- 42 ~gan 46 Night Monkeys 47 Feather & Leather 48 P~~ ~ Whatcha Gonna Do 50 Schonell Timetable 52 .UQ union 1 Shona David Jim I think everything has pretty much been All I will say is that I was able to get much It is sometimes difficult to understand wliy more sleep this month compared to last people hale and fear others because they said. month. Less headaches too. Queers are are different. People seem to discriminate on great. So that's three things. (ittle things that don't matter and that an Peace, out. individual can't change - skin colour, gender, Khrys Robb (Male Queer Sexuality Office) ethnicity or sexual preference, etc - whi'e usually ignoring the big things - is the person (To be read with visualisation of author in robe, slippers, glass of goon and smoking a pipe) honest, reliable, competent etc. Some Hello and Greetings dear reader, people talk of Ihe structural oppression and patriarchal nature of society, but the editors I trust this editorial will find you all well, In the past the Queer edition of Semper has really would like to believe that our generation and just been a little 'hooray for gay' affair, Nice, pretty but not really addressing issues that the ones that follow will be more tolerant and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Tranz and intersex people face both in our own community and in understanding of groups outside the 'norm'; wider society. An analysis of the homophobic creation of identity and the struggle of our not merely offering a grudging acceptance "community" against heterosexism is important but an understanding of 'us' is also important. (which some groups have fought long and hard to achieve) but an embracing of the At this stage I cannot believe that we do have a community. Rather, when I go out shopping differences and a realisation that these or clubbing or to the health sen/ices I see a rough coalition of people who have been groups have so much to offer and contribute shunned by the general populous, the only thing that we have in common is difference. Yet to 'the mainstream.' How/ever saying this, within our difference we are different, we are people of myriad racial and cultural there are still (and probably always will be) backgrounds, of a spectrum of genders and many social economic classes. We are people, narrow-minded, hateful people. Education and understanding are the key. we love and sometimes hate, we need to acknowledge that yes, we do replicate the behaviours taught to us by those who relegated us to ghettos of 'gay districts' by segregating what could be a community into tribes which battle for the handouts that are given to pacify This year we have produced an Indigenous, us. Through out all this what is important to acknowledge is that we remain people regardless Women's and Queer edition of Semper. These are three broad groupings that the UQ of race, gender or culture we fight the same battle that for liberation. Union believes require significant support I would also like to acknowledge those people who are by choice, no longer part of the and representation due to the historical marginalisation, victimisation and 'norm,' those who have embraced queer people not regardless of our differences but discrimination of these groups in the wider because of it. It is to these allies who have seen the oppression of others and attempted to community. One challenge confronting lay aside the privileges that sheltered them from hate to take up and support the struggle that minority or victimised groups is the feeling of I say thank you. being oppressed and silenced by 'the mainstream". The Editors wanted to have In closing the purpose of this edition is to create a space in which to engage with these special editions of Semper this year to issues, to discuss that which is generally not spoken about in wider circles but above all to discuss and examine some of the issue promote a discourse. It is through challenging each other that we learn more and will confronting Indigenous, Queer and female eventually come to understanding. members of our society, and to provide Queerly Yours in Solidarity, space and a voice for these groups. Khrys Robb SEMPER FLOREAT IS YOUR UNION NEWSPAPER The editors of Semper in 2003 believe WHATYOU NEEDTO KNOW in an objective press. We are not dictated to by any particular political party or faction. Writing articles We attempt to make our reports on Union If you have an idea for an article, it is a good idea to first check it with the editors to see activities as objective as possible. This relies if they are interested and how much space could be dedicated to it.. on information received as well as activities observed by the editors. We are open to hear The editors are interested in your views, but not mere assertions. Essays and articles ail perspectives on any situation. filled with good argument and supported by facts will be preferred when choosing from We attempt to produce a balanced amongst the submissions. publication taking in as many different ideas and ideologies as possible. This relies on Word length submissions. The editors normally choose articles of 500-1000 words in length. If you have some The editors cannot guarantee every article graphics, include these as well, but please don't paste them into Word, send them as will be well balanced within itself although a separate files. well formulated argument is encouraged. Submitting Articles We encourage counter arguments to any article published. However for constructive Submitted documents should include the author's name (so we don't have to go fishing dialogue, criticism should be directed through the e-mails to figure out who sent what). towards the content of the article, and not the author. Please do not name your file Semper, Semper Article, Article for Semper, Semperl, or The editors reserve the right to a personal Semper Edx. We end up with a heap of files that we cannot tell apart. opinion, but this does not restnct our acceptance of the opinion of others. If you have an opinion, we invite you to submit it to Semper Floreat. -UQ T union n 9 % 0 H !a Letters to the Editors Ed/tors, Thank you for presenting me with Dear Semper editor. the opportunity to cut my own As you may have known, many [We apologise if any article baby In half (in what must be a Chinese of UQ find the article causes offense to our readers, tragic, arthouse rehashing of the titled "Taiwan: the Struggle for this is certainly not our intention. King Solomon legend). I do the statehood" (published on the The article In question was written appreciate the retention of August issue of the Semper) In response to another article on creative control, even If my offending. Representing the Taiwan in the May edition: medium has now become 'total opinion of hundreds of Chinese of 'Shoulder to Shoulder, Australia butchery'! UQ, wc believe It is not wise to and the Taiwanese Question'. (Your bonsai allusion, mcidcntally, publish such an article. It is the We encourage students with a may be a bit off. Bonsai trees are editors' responsibility to make contrary view (or any viewpoint) to pruned lovingly - and not all that sure Its publication will not Insult write an article expressing their much! - over many years.

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