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A YEAR LIKE NO OTHER THORNE HARBOUR HEALTH ANNUAL REPORT 2019 - 2020 I’Ve Had the Chance to Create a Platform That My Friend’S Mother Is Unwell I often felt guilty about being busy with When gyms shut down - so did my business. work while others have lost their income. It’s a massive challenge to build and maintain a LINDY service while holding a community together. SAM < 1.5 METRES < A YEAR LIKE NO OTHER THORNE HARBOUR HEALTH ANNUAL REPORT 2019 - 2020 I’ve had the chance to create a platform that My friend’s mother is unwell. She can’t visit her. bridges the gaps between the fitness and trans/ Seeing her face that challenge has been tough. gender diverse communities. CATALINA < SAM < I have been thrilled to host The Bent Spoon at Everyone has struggled to stay connected. this time - it’s a fantastic celebration of diversity. Through Rainbow Connection, I have volunteered CATALINA to call clients and have a good chat. < LEIGHTON < 4 PRESIDENT’S AND CEO’S REPORT 6 2020 A FRESH PANDEMIC 7 SEX AND COVID-19 8 CONNECTING WITH COMMUNITY 9 MILESTONES 10 10 STORIES FROM THORNE HARBOUR HEALTH 12 AWARDS 13 FINANCIAL REPORT Living with HIV and Type 1 diabetes, I’m happy to reach 66 and have my health. LEIGHTON < PRESIDENT & CEO’S REPORT THORNE HARBOUR HEALTH’S FLAGSHIP SEXUAL HEALTH AND TESTING CAMPAIGN, THE DRAMA DOWNUNDER WAS IMPLEMENTED THIS YEAR WITH MORE DIVERSITY THAN EVER Today we face a global pandemic queer panel on stage together, including All the while, we were seeing clients every brought on by a potentially deadly interstate and international visitors day for face-to-face counselling, GP visits, pathogen. At the start of this pandemic, alike. Our health promotion campaigns rapid tests, and peer support. medical experts struggled to understand like What Works, Public Cervix NOW how to treat it and how to prevent Announcement, and Drama Downunder Today things look a little different. it. Governments around the world could be seen on tram stops and Telehealth appointments have become undertook a range of measures to control postcards as people commuted to work. the norm, and our staff have done a the outbreak, with varying degrees of Our advocacy was in full swing with two remarkable job at making that transition success. When you consider our origin submissions to the Royal Commission on to ensure our communities did not go story, many aspects of the COVID-19 Victoria’s Mental Health System, a call for without the essential support they needed experience are all-too-familiar. While a Parliamentary enquiry into hate crimes, during uncertain times. Our volunteers much of the world compared the 2019 and continued efforts for drug law reform adapted to find new ways to support our novel coronavirus to the Spanish flu and an end to conversion practices. efforts whether by making facemasks, a century earlier, for our communities In December, the annual World AIDS Day delivering food parcels, or offering this stirred living memories of the early street appeal saw staff and volunteers telephone peer support through our response to HIV and AIDS. It was a call- take to the streets in both Victoria and expanded Rainbow Connection service. to-action that we were uniquely prepared South Australia to remind everyone that Through Rainbow Connection we now for. HIV Still Matters. That same month, offer support to any LGBTI Victorian BEFORE COVID-19 QuitFlicks, our tobacco cessation project impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. in partnership with Quit Victoria and As Victoria is still only just emerging from Online engagement was already a Melbourne Queer Film Festival, won the strict lockdown restrictions, it seems like daily activity with projects like our digital 2019 VicHealth Award for ‘Preventing a lifetime since we were dancing in close sexual health initiative at Emen8.com. Tobacco Use’ as plans were underway proximity without facemasks in venues au and our online community at Dale. for the 2020 film festival. and a trip interstate for a pride festival was org.au for same-sex attracted men in not out of the question. As we developed our Women’s Health a heterosexual relationship. However, This time last year, our annual Northside Strategy, Dykes on Bikes announced when physical distancing meant face- Bizarre fundraiser for our David Williams Thorne Harbour Health as the beneficiary to-face encounters posed a health risk, Fund and JOY 94.9 was one of the of their annual Pride for Pillions fundraiser we quickly reimagined almost all our biggest and most successful to date. offering one lucky winner a chance engagements for a virtual setting. From The street festival at The Laird raised to ride with them in Pride March. our Scope workshops for women to over $36,000 thanks to the 2,500+ Throughout the summer festival season, our Defrosted group for men who have people that joined us on the day. After our rainbow Thorne Harbour fans were a used meth, our expanded offering of five successful runs at Midsumma, we hit at Midsumma Carnival, ChillOut, and peer workshops and support groups took our annual Hypothetical to Adelaide the Melbourne 2020 International Gay went from meeting room to Zoom. Plus, as part of Feast Festival with an all- and Lesbian Aquatics Championships. new groups were developed such as THH ANNUAL REPORT 2020 l 4 I’ve missed being able to exercise. I want to get back in the water to swim and play water polo. MADDIE < Conquering COVID for those who felt impacted by the evolving landscape around the pandemic. Annual events like L.O.V.E. found innovative ways to keep us connected and a plethora of new events were rolled out including a collection of workshops for LGBTIQ women and the Transcripts series focused on trans, gender diverse, and non-binary health. Perhaps one of the most ambitious online event undertakings was Pride- solation. Coordinated by Thorne Harbour Country, the one-day online event streamed over seven hours of content in partnership with 15 LGBTIQ pride festival and community organisations from across Victoria. Other online events like DownAn’Dirty Live started to become weekly occurrences. In fact, the Sexually Adventurous Men’s project continues to deliver a new instalment of health promotion content online every single week since May 2020. In fact the series has embraced the online format by regularly engaging interstate and international guests and experts. With so many people online at this time, we’ve focused on creating more video content in the past several months than ever before. In the early days of the pandemic, we kept the community up-to-date through the Thorne Harbour Health CEO Updates. This included our historic call-to-action: asking our LGBTI communities to stop having casual sex during the height of the pandemic in Australia. As our communities grappled with this advice, we posed tricky community questions to Dr George THE FABULOUS MISS CATALINA HOSTED THE BENT SPOON, WHERE FOOD, PERSONAL Forgan Smith and had his answers STORIES AND CULTURE CAME TOGETHER posted online. As facemasks became mandatory, we equipped the community plan to offer many of our services out of its strong governance of the associations’ with new DIY skills through the Crafty Cal the Victorian Pride Centre. Meanwhile, strategy and assets. We will continue series. We encouraged our communities we look forward to marking our five-year to capitalise on our strengths – our to get off the couch and into the anniversary in Bendigo with a new home members, our staff, our volunteers and kitchen to connect with our multicultural around the corner at 58 Mundy Street. the community who support us – to communities through The Bent Spoon. We look forward to welcoming you all to reduce stigma and discrimination and THE FUTURE these new sites when it is safe to do so. build a healthy future for our communities. As restrictions ease and we adapt to In the coming year, we will establish our It has been a year like no other for us, COVID normal, we need to retain some volunteer hub and release a Women’s but much like our organisation’s early of the adaptions that have benefited Health Strategy, both of these made days, we worked together and faced the community. Through online content possible through a generous bequest these challenges head on. We did it back and events, we’ve been able to reach from the estate of Kevin Quinlan. We will then, we’ve done it again, and provided new audiences regardless of barriers continue to work with our partners to we don’t lose sight of the importance due to geography, accessibility, and end the impact of HIV on our community, of collective action – we will do it in the bring together our communities in South including tackling HIV stigma. Our future. Australia and Victoria. President has hit his term limit and will CHAD HUGHES, PRESIDENT We’ll also be adjusting to new settings. be stepping aside at the 2020 Annual SIMON RUTH, CEO Our headquarters at 200 Hoddle Street General Meeting, so the next year will see are near completion. In early 2021, we new leadership as the Board continues THH ANNUAL REPORT 2020 l 5 It has been nice to get outside and dis- cover new walking trails along the Yarra. MADDIE < 2020: A FRESH PANDEMIC Fear, stigma and shame. These were Officer Professor Brett Sutton. the defining characteristics of the The media reports included dramatic emergence of HIV and AIDS in the images of the looming concrete early 1980’s. As we grapple with the towers and the flashing lights of police current COVID-19 epidemic, it is worth vehicles on the ground. The lockdown reflecting on the impact HIV and AIDS was enforced by a significant police had on Australia.
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