Red Thread Winter 2020 Edition 36

ISSUE 36 WINTER 2020

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Scarlet Alliance Community Fundraiser

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A fling with gay romance

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RedThread My Still Life photo competition

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Time for a change

+ Men and their cars +F inding Fungi

From the editor

Winter 2020

BEHOLD! IT IS WINTER, 2020.

AND THIS IS ISSUE NUMBER 36 OF REDTHREAD. It’s a time of dark nights, low lights, fireplaces and hibernation....

Workplaces discovered that working from home was not only possible, but that it was indeed productive. Both consumers and providers were invited into online experiences that had previously been the dominion of the initiated few.

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CONTENTS Scarlet Alliance Community fundraiser A fling with gay romance

CONTRIBUTORS: Finnan Danger

Randos Korobacz

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Ruby Grant

Niamh Schofield

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Heetham Hekmat

The Scarlet Alliance Tasmanian Sex Worker Project

Homecoming 8

Liv Hogarth

COVID-19’s impact on LGBTIQ Tasmanians

Hannah Jane

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Working it out together

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RedThread My Still Life

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Coming out of the tunnel

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Men and their cars

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Finding fungi

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NSP outlets and pharmacies

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Scarlet Alliance community fundraiser SCARLET ALLIANCE AND OUR STATE AND TERRITORY MEMBER ORGANISATIONS HAVE JOINED TOGETHER TO CREATE AN ONGOING FUND TO MAKE DONATIONS DIRECTLY AVAILABLE TO SEX WORKERS WHO NEED EMERGENCY FINANCIAL RELIEF IN ORDER TO SUPPORT THEM TO STAY SAFE, HOUSED AND FED DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. THIS FUND IS BEING OVERSEEN BY SEX WORKER ORGANISATIONS AND RUN BY SEX WORKER ORGANISATION STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS ACROSS AUSTRALIA. ALL MONEY DONATED GOES DIRECTLY TO SEX WORKERS IN NEED.

Sex workers don’t get sick pay and holiday pay, and many have no superannuation or savings. The stigma and discrimination that they face mean some have no proof of earnings to access government support. This fundraiser will provide emergency relief for sex workers in Australia who do not meet eligibility criteria for government or other financial support or are unable to meet government requirements.

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All proceeds go directly to sex workers in need.

However, this will not be enough to meet the demand but will assist in bridging the gap until essential government support is provided.

If you are able to donate please go to https://chuffed.org/project/ emergency-support-sex-workersaustralia

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By Hannah Jane

A fling with gay romance

I NEEDED A BREAK. I SET ASIDE MY EPIC FANTASY AS I WAS NEARLY PULLING MY HAIR OUT OVER THE REWRITES. I WANTED TO TRY SOMETHING NEW, GET MY CREATIVE SPARKLE BACK. I SAT DOWN TO READ ONE OF THE SHORT ROMANCE NOVELS I COULD DEVOUR IN A DAY AND IT STARTED OUT WITH AN IDEA - WHO WOULD SAVE A KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOUR? WHAT WAS HIS STORY? THE STORY FLEW FROM MY FINGERS. I ONLY PAUSED TO QUESTION MY LIFE CHOICES WHEN I WROTE SEX SCENES. KNOWING YOUR BIGGEST FAN AND GRANDMOTHER WILL READ ANYTHING HELPS, BUT SO DO HAVING THOSE FRIENDS YOU CAN POSE ANATOMY QUESTIONS TO OR OTHER MYTHICAL THINGS.

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It was an easy decision to self-publish. I control my rights and have a higher royalty cut. As a newbie to the industry I only published exclusively with Amazon but the other big publishers for indie authors at this time are Nook, Kobo, Apple Books, and Google Play.

Amazon allows authors to enrol their books into Kindle Unlimited so that readers with a subscription can read “for free” but authors earn money based on pages read.

This was my first time publishing and this weird sense of calm washed over me as I clicked the button and waited for my book to be live on the store. I didn’t spend a lot on marketing, and I rushed a bit with building my newsletter. I was prepared for the upfront costs, I have been watching and researching the industry for years, but still it felt surreal knowing my book was being bought and read by people around the world.

Romance is the highest earning genre, and Gay or MM Romance is a hungry niche. FF romance is even more niche but still on an upward trend. With the 2018 boom of Reverse Harem romances more and more polyamorous books have also crept onto the scene.

I have seen such healthier depictions of relationships, BDSM, trans sexuality, and disability representation whether it be MM, FF, MMF, MFM, or Harem romances.

MF books are getting there too.

I published The Honest Knight as Annie Lindwurm at the end of March and what was once the start of a trilogy is now a standalone short romance novel. Going forward I’ll be writing Romantic Fantasy so I can have my mix of love and magic.

I also think Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere should be together, just saying...

I recommend ‘M/M Book Rec’ Facebook group for all your romance reads.

The Honest Knight by Annie Lindwurm is available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.

Want to start writing romance? Check out Romancing the Beat by Gwen Hayes.

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By Niamh Schofield

THE ROOSTER WAS OUT AGAIN, TEARING APART MUM’S VEGGIE GARDEN WITH HIS SHARP BLACK BEAK. HE LOOKED LIKE A CARTOON, WITH PERFECT WHITE CIRCLES ON EACH SIDE OF HIS HEAD.

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Homecoming My girlfriend thought that when he crowed, it sounded like the Jurassic Park theme song, but all I could hear was screeching. She woke me up at six am every morning, balancing her pointy elbows on my chest as she looked for his shadowy figure on the fence. Our bodies become uncomfortably one in the single bed, the blanket twisted up tight in all the wrong places.

Grandad saw him balanced, soft footed, on a green pine pole when we came back from our parallel parking adventure. “He is one of your roosters, is he? I promised ya Mum I’d get rid of them for her. When do they go to roost?”

I had kind of accepted early on in life that I would be one of those pathetic types who wouldn’t be able to drive. When I was younger, I plummeted my Dad’s ute through two sheets of metal, four poles, and a mound of dirt. I nearly hit my little sisters on the way through. I still remember climbing dazed out of the front seat, while my Mum cried in flowing spurts. My head rang, and I couldn’t hear anything but a skullbound “Oh shit, oh fuck!!!”, as my siblings shouted raucously and structures collapsed around me. At first my inability to drive was a grave embarrassment, but later I clung to it. Maybe I was one of those people who were too talented and gay to also be able to drive, like David Sedaris. Yes, all my younger cousins had their licence. But none of them get to go to gay clubs or play shit pop songs at the Brisbane Hotel in their band, now, do they?

It took around fifteen rejections from pretentious magazines, one mental breakdown, and losing my job and home to the Coronavirus crisis to realise that maybe I wasn’t quite gay and talented enough to avoid getting my drivers licence. So now I’m generously helping my relatives to come to terms with their own mortality by letting them drive around with me in my Mum’s clapped out Peugeot, lovingly named St Mary MacKillop.

Today, my Grandad taught me how to reverse park swiftly behind bulky utes and family vans. It felt good having him growl at me reproachfully while my hands twisted the wheel the wrong way. I never thought I’d be able to make him proud after my Mum told him I was gay.

I tell my Grandad that the chooks go to roost around six. He comes back then, using one hand to haul his pants up over his skinny legs as I pull open the gate for him. We sneak into the chicken coop and grab the roosters as they sleep, stuffing them in a large hessian bag.

One by one, Grandad pulls them out gently, before sharply twisting their neck back three times. He hacks their heads off and I drop them into a bucket of hot water. Their dead bodies jerk frantically, and Grandad yells out in surprise when they inevitably spray warm blood and soap onto the concrete.Our hands are so different, his old and overworked, and mine olive and tiny, but they work as one as we methodically strip their quivering bodies of feathers. The last one we kill is the naughty escapee.

His body is surprisingly small, but his craw is overstuffed from his daily feasts.

“I didn’t know Niamhy had it in her!”, he later tells my Mum. She comes back into the house shiny with pride. “That is the highest praise, Niamhy. It may not sound like it, but it is.” I’m vegetarian, so I felt kind of sick about killing the roosters, especially when I strewed their guts across the backyard for the foxes to eat. But, my coiled up belly is nothing in comparison to the overpowering joy that courses through my body when I hear what Grandad said.

I can feel my heart floating through my skin. Suddenly, I realise why some people don’t mind getting their licence and simply driving around the same town for the rest of their lives.

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By Ruby Grant

New study reveals COVID-19’s impact on LGBTIQ Tasmanians IN TIMES OF CRISIS, LGBTIQ AND HIV+ PEOPLE FACE FURTHER MARGINALISATION AND BARRIERS TO HEALTH AND WELLBEING. NEW RESEARCH FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA HAS FOUND THAT COVID-19 IS NO DIFFERENT. In a survey of 231 Tasmanians, researchers Dr Ruby Grant and Briohny Walker found that mental health, loneliness, discrimination in health care, strained family relationships, and disconnection from LGBTIQ community were key concerns for LGBTIQ people during the pandemic.

The survey also revealed concerns not widely raised elsewhere. For example, HIV+ people and trans people were concerned about safe access to medication and hormones during COVID-19. Some same-sex couples were worried that police might not recognise them as being family members and target 10

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them for breaching social distancing. People with multiple sexual or romantic partners were finding it hard to navigate public health directives.

Heart-warmingly, many respondents expressed concern for other LGBTIQ people, especially young people, who may be in isolation with unsupportive family.

When given a preference, LGBTIQ Tasmanians overwhelmingly reported wanting to receive supports from LGBTIQ organisations. But some were concerned about the viability of these services in a post-pandemic economy.

The solutions are more funding for LGBTIQ support services and for the needs of LGBTIQ and HIV+ people to be factored into public health emergency planning in the future.

By Liv Hogarth

Working it out together the impact of COVID-19 on LGBTIQ+ people WORKING IT OUT (WIO), TASMANIA’S GENDER, SEXUALITY AND INTERSEX STATUS SUPPORT AND EDUCATION SERVICE, IS PROVIDING A SPECIAL TASMANIAN COVID-19 INITIATIVE: ‘WORKING IT OUT TOGETHER’ WHILE LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE MIGHT EXPERIENCE THE PANDEMIC MORE ACUTELY THAN OTHERS, WE ALSO HAVE A LONG HISTORY OF RESILIENCE AND HELPING EACH OTHER OUT WHICH CAN HELP MITIGATE THESE IMPACTS. ‘WORKING IT OUT TOGETHER’ HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED AS A RESPONSE TO COVID-19 TO FACILITATE BOTH OF THESE CHARACTERISTICS. The main features are: • A special webpage with details, links, resources and online forms to register to give or receive a hand: www.workingitout.org.au • A process to allow LGBTIQ+ Tasmanians to put their hand up to get extra support during this crisis and/or to help out

• A one-stop place for LGBTIQ+ and Tasmanian-specific COVID-19 related resources which will be continually updated as new information comes in – the perfect place to find the latest information: • Stay connected - a range of online and offline activities and groups to keep people connected and active • Stay healthy - advice and links for how to stay healthy during this crisis LGBTIQ+ people sometimes have limited options for connecting with others and seeking support. These may shrink even further with current restrictions.

Uncertainty about whether services and people are inclusive, understanding and respectful can also mean LGBTIQ+ people don’t seek help as often as they should, or don’t get the right kind of help when they do ask.

This program provides connection, support and assistance that is accepting and inclusive.

It is currently planned to operate until September 2020, subject to funding and organisational capacity.

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RedThread My Still Life photo competition

WINNER GRAND PRIZE - Patrick Riley

Thanks to all the entrants who took the time to reflect on their current still lives and provide us with an insight into their innovations.

Congratulations to the judge’s choice and people’s choice award winners!

WINNER PEOPLE’S CHOICE - Kristie Knight

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By Randos Korobacz

Coming out of the tunnel LONELINESS AND APOCALYPTIC MOVIES ARE MOTIVATORS FOR CHANGE IN THE AGE OF COVID-19.

IT WAS LATE FEBRUARY AND MY INNER GERMO-PHOBE HAD MAXED OUT ITS CAPACITY FOR TOLERATING PEOPLE. I HAD BEEN FOLLOWING THE DEVELOPMENTS OF THIS MYSTERIOUS DISEASE SINCE THE NEW YEAR. I ONLY SAW IT COMING BECAUSE I’VE HAD A LIFELONG FASCINATION OF ‘APOCALYPTIC’ MOVIES. CONTAGION, WATERWORLD, 12 MONKEYS, THE MATRIX, 28 DAYS LATER, ELYSIUM. YOU NAME IT, I’VE SEEN IT.

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With a healthy dose of realistic pessimism and a chronic lung condition, I shamelessly horded food, household supplies, medications and went into isolation. After talking about end of days scenarios my entire life, I felt prepared and ready to bear witness to this global calamity. But nothing prepared me for the smash of heartbreak, grief, regret, and selfhatred in my hours of loneliness.

There has been plenty of talk about how bad loneliness is, but there has been little talk of how loneliness reveals the unaddressed wounds of our life’s that need healing. I was so heartbroken from the end of a relationship that I had put off dealing it with it for years.

Heartbreak is the real human experience of intense emotional stress or pain; it can literally feel like your heart is being ripped from your chest. And I can promise you, if you’ve got a good dose, you’ll truly know what love is.

I’ve had more than my fair share of lovers, but I knew from day one that the connection with this particular love was going to stay with me forever. The brutal honesty of my loneliness made my responsibility for my part in the split, feel ten times harder. My heartbreak churned grief and regret into a ball of bleak self-hatred, as I was left with only myself to blame. Being stuck in isolation there was no way out of these feelings, only a way through.

With my chest feeling unbearably split open, I did what we should all do in our hours of darkness; I rang my wisest friend and she gave me six pieces of advice: • Don’t rest in the past.

• Remember what sucked.

• It is ok to feel feelings, but not become them.

appreciate my life. My friend was right, there will always be a future. But was I ready for it?

The short answer was no. If my measure of success for getting through the day was to only need one joint, rub 3 out (without feeling like a soulless bastard) and only have two potato cakes, then that wasn’t what I would call success or ready for a future.

I decided that I was going honor my feelings and learn from them, but not live there. After a long walk, some good food and a hot cup of milo, I settled down to watch Mad Max: Fury Road, because, in fact there’s a really good reason why ‘apocalyptic’ movies are so popular; they represent our subconscious desire for change. Before COVID-19, all of us in some way wanted the world to change and there was an ever-present feeling that we were on a destructive path. Apocalyptic movies sooth our discomfort with the way things are.

They empower us to imagine ways of dealing with drama, while envisioning new societies, with themes of what is good and what is evil.

Loneliness is not just a feeling of isolation; it is a motivator for change.

Twitter @RandosJackalas

• Be healthy as you can be.

• There will always be a future and be ready for the next opportunity.

• Watch one of your favorite movies.

She was right. I’d been spinning my wheels in the past, crying about the ‘could have’s’ and ‘should haves’, while obsessively idealizing the other person. The fact of the matter was there was a reason we broke up and I needed to remember that. I also had that moment of being honest that all my little soothing vices like comfort food, drug use and porn, had become staples of everyday life, way before COVID-19 was a thing. Sure, I was successful, but I did have a patch work of habits that I was using to tranquillize the heavy emotional baggage eating away at me. Although painful, the enforced isolation made me deal with and

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By Heetham Hekmat

Men and their cars ALL AUSTRALIAN MEN OWN A CAR. EVEN IF THEY DON’T KNOW IT YET. AUSTRALIA AND CARS SEEM TO GO HAND IN HAND. MANY OF US LOVE OUR CARS, AND WHEN IT’S TIME FOR THEM TO BE SERVICED, WE EITHER TAKE THEM TO THE MECHANIC, OR DO IT OURSELVES. WE CHECK OUR CARS IN THE RIGHT MANNER AND AT THE RIGHT TIME. WELL, EVENTUALLY....

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NOW, think of your body as a car:

Our legs are the tires, our eyes as the headlights, our hearts are the batteries, our lungs are the radiators, our brains are the engines, and, obviously, our food is the fuel. I think you have the idea.

As men with cars, we should ask ourselves: When was the last time I checked my ears for a good sound system?

When was the last time I checked my heart for a good start to the day?

When was the last time I checked my eyes for good night vision?

We all know that if we service our cars regularly, it saves us a costly fix.

5. Six men will die of suicide daily.

The same theory applies to our bodies!

6. Two thirds of fatal assaults are male.

It is also important to know your model and the issues that come with it, to be prepared and take all the precautionary actions.

However, it is also important to know that each car’s performance is based on how far is has travelled and the conditions that has been through. It is the same with our bodies; we have to understand that health issues do not only belong with the elderly. Being unwell can happen at any age. You need to take care of your body and treat it car-fully.

7. STI risks may be higher in some groups of men who have sex with men (MSM).

Did you know that most of us will encounter a significant health challenge throughout our lives? And that there is an array of studies highlighting that us men are less likely to adapt and take any actions to enhance our lives?

To provide an illustration, there is a plethora of studies demonstrating that Australian men experience great health risks in their lives, including: 1.

Men have shorter lifespans.

2. 72 - 74% of trans men experience depression and anxiety due to prejudice and discrimination.

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75% of transport fatalities are of men.

8. Men experience 60% of tobacco diseases.

9. And men account for 71-75% of alcohol and other drug related diseases

Men in Australia, and around the world, make up for the majority of health-related issue. The reason is simple: men delay seeking help or assistance regarding their health.

This means there’s a simple answer.

It’s time to challenge that statistic. Book in your “car check” appointment and service your body and mind. Your “car” will thank you for it.

Heetham Hekmat, The Link Youth Health Service We provide free and confidential health and wellbeing services for young people aged 12-25. 57 Liverpool Street, Hobart (6231 2927) www.thelink.org.au

4. Gay men are three times more likely to experience mental health difficulties due to oppression and isolation.

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By Finnian Danger

Finding Fungi WELCOME TO MARRIOTS FALLS, ONE OF THE MANY WALKING TRACKS ATTACHED TO MOUNT FIELD NATIONAL PARK. AROUND 85KM NORTHWEST OF HOBART CITY, THIS IDYLLIC OVERGROWN FOREST RIVALS ANYTHING ONE MIGHT FIND ON MOUNT WELLINGTON. STUNNING FERNS, HUMONGOUS TREES AND BUBBLING RIVERS CATCH THE EYE, BUT WHAT I’M MOST INTERESTED IN IS MUCH, MUCH SMALLER. I’M HERE FOR THE FUNGI.

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I am an amateur mycologist and fungi hunter and have been for about six years. I traverse our expansive national parks for the corals, caps, and curls that most people miss while hiking and exploring along these tracks.

Beneath leaf litter, along logs, hiding behind rocks... fungi are all around us. When you slow yourself, pause, and peer down, there is so much more to hiking and bush walking than just the squelching of mud on your boots.

The fruiting bodies of fungi come in all shapes, sizes and colours with Tasmania alone having over 1000 known species. There are absolutely more that are yet to be named or studied.

Recently, I was asked to talk on ABC Hobart News about fungi and not eating random mushrooms you find on the ground. It was a fun experience for me, but what stood out the most was that the journalist asked me what my pronouns were and addressed me correctly. After the interview was complete and I’d already gone home, it occurred to me that it might cause a stir in the viewers of the news if they heard someone with breasts being called a ‘he’ - the journo apologised to me, saying it was an unfortunate thing that I’d even have to worry about that, but that there was no comment section and so I couldn’t be harassed. In the end, all feedback received was positive.

But it makes me think, queer people sort of remind me of fungi. We are often brightly coloured and we are quite literally everywhere; how strange that even in 2020 you sometimes hear, “I’ve never met a gay person before”...

I’m sure they have; they just didn’t know.

Reader, YOU have seen a fungus before and didn’t realise! There might even be one or two growing in your yard! You can find little mushroom caps in the city in cracks in the pavement, persevering in the harshest of climates. Queer folks survive through thick and thin. It’s a nice comparison, don’t you think?

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NSP OUTLETS PRIMARY Northwest Youth and Family Focus Inc 62 Stewart Street Devonport Anglicare 6 Strahan Street Burnie South Jordan River Services Inc. 6 Bowden Drive Bridgewater Anglicare 436 Main Road Glenorchy

South The Link 57 Liverpool Street Hobart Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre 56 Patrick Street Hobart Jordan River Services - Gagebrook Community Centre 191 Lamprill Circuit Gagebrook Tasmanian Council on Aids, Hepatitis and Related Diseases 319 Liverpool Street Hobart North

Anglicare 18 Watchorn Street Hobart

Cape Barren Community Health Centre 5 Everett Court Cape Barren Island

Clarence Community Health Centre 18-22 Bayfield Street Rosny

Flinders Island Multi-Purpose Centre James Street Flinders Island

North

Flinders Island Aboriginal Association Inc 16 West Street Lady Barron

Salvation Army 111 Elizabeth Street Launceston

Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre 182 Charles Street Launceston

SECONDARY

Ravenswood Community Health Centre 39-41 Lambert Street Ravenswood

Northwest

St Helens District Hospital 10 Annie Street St Helens

Burnie Community House 24 Wiseman Street Burnie North West Regional Hospital 23 Brickport Road Burnie King Island District Hospital and Health Centre 35 Edwards Street Currie Devonport Community Health Centre 23 Steele Street Devonport

VENDING MACHINES Northwest 40-48 Best Street, Devonport Ground level, Multi-level carpark South

Rosebery Community Hospital Hospital Road Rosebery

Anglicare 18 Watchorn Street Hobart

Smithton District Hospital 74 Brittons Road Smithton

Invermay Local Post Office 52 Invermay Road Invermay

Wyndarra Centre Inc. 43 Smith Street Smithton

Salvation Army 111 Elizabeth Street Launceston

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Youngtown Pharmacy 369 Hobart Road Youngtown

These NSP locations have been reproduced from the DHHS webpage.

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NSP PHARMACIES NORTH

SOUTH

West Tamar Pharmacy, Beaconsfield Bicheno Pharmacy, Bicheno Bridport Pharmacy, Bridport Healthpoint Pharmacy, Campbell Town Amcal Pharmacy, Deloraine George Town Pharmacy Capital Chemist, King Meadows Priceline Pharmacy, Launceston Amcal Pharmacy, Legana Chemmart Pharmacy, Longford Longford Pharmacy, Longford Capital Chemist, Mowbray Heights Capital Chemist, Newstead Chemmart Pharmacy, Ravenswood Galloway’s Pharmacy, Scottsdale St Helens Pharmacy, St Helens St Marys Pharmacy, St Marys Westbury Pharmacy, Westbury Young Town Pharmacy, Young Town

Bellerive Quay Pharmacy, Bellerive Rhys Jones Pharmacy, Bellerive Priceline Pharmacy, Bridgewater Brighton Pharmacy, Brighton Bruny Island Pharmacy, Bruny Island Chigwell Pharmacy, Chigwell Claremont Pharmacy, Claremont Derwent Park Pharmacy, Derwent Park Chemmart Pharmacy, Dodges Ferry Dover Pharmacy, Dover Geeveston Pharmacy, Geeveston Elizabeth Hope Priceline, Glenorchy Central Advantage Pharmacy, Glenorchy Priceline Pharmacy, Hobart Mall Davey St. Discount Pharmacy, Hobart Your Hobart Chemist, Hobart Shoreline Amcal Pharmacy, Howrah Wentworth Pharmacy, Howrah Huonville Pharmacy, Huonville Priceline Pharmacy, Kingston Terry White Chemist, Kingston Chemist Outlet, Kingston Kingborough Medical Centre Pharmacy Lauderdale Pharmacy, Lauderdale Amcal Pharmacy, Lenah Valley Village Chemmart, Lindisfarne Rosetta Pharmacy, Montrose Amcal Max Pharmacy, Moonah Amcal Community Pharmacy, New Norfolk New Norfolk Pharmacy, New Norfolk Friendly Care Chemmart, New Town Amcal Pharmacy, North Hobart Tasman Pharmacy, Nubeena Risdon Vale Pharmacy, Rison Vale Eastlands Priceline Pharmacy, Rosny Park Discount Pharmacy, Sandy Bay Magnet Court Chemmart, Sandy Bay Healthpoint Pharmacy, Snug Chemmart Pharmacy, Sorell Chemist Warehouse, Sorell Sorell Plaza Pharmacy, Sorell South Arm Community Pharmacy, South Arm Capital Chemist, South Hobart Swansea Pharmacy, Swansea Triabunna Pharmacy, Triabunna Warrane Pharmacy, Warrane Amcal Pharmacy, West Hobart

NORTH WEST Bolands Pharmacy, Burnie Pharmacy One, Burnie Wilkinson’s Pharmacy, Burnie Chemmart Pharmacy, Upper Burnie Healthpoint Pharmacy, Burnie King Island Pharmacy, Currie Mersey Pharmacy, East Devonport Coventry’s Pharmacy, Latrobe Penguin Pharmacy, Penguin Turnbull’s Pharmacy, Sheffield Smithton Pharmacy, Smithton Somerset Pharmacy, Somerset Strahan Pharmacy, Strahan Priceline Pharmacy, Ulverstone Peter Thompson’s Pharmacy, Ulverstone Westside Pharmacy, Ulverstone Dixon’s Pharmacy, Wynyard Healthpoint Pharmacy, Wynyard Zeehan Pharmacy, Zeehan

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SIGNPOST

A guide to inclusive organisations in Tasmania SOUTH:

Rainbow Youth Events Hobart

Jaylan Electrical

A Twist of Lemons

Red Parka

Kentish Regional Clinic Inc.

Advocacy Tasmania

Relationships Australia Tasmania

Patrick Street Clinic

RFT - Destination Wellbeing

Weddings For Everyone

Scots Memorial Church

Youth, Family & Community Connections

Alison Standen Arbonne Independent Consultant Arwen Dyer Bronwyn’s Driving Instruction

Sensual Potential

City Organics

State Bookstore

Colony 47

State Cinema

Danu Herbs

TASCAHRD

David O’Byrne

The Art of Tea Bouteaque

Ella Haddad MP

The Hobart Bookshop

Equal Opportunity Tasmania

The Link Youth Health Service

Eye Am Hair

The Page And Cup

Fiori Florist

Tranquility Float and Reflexology Hobart

FRIENDZ LGBTIQ SOCIAL GROUP Hamlet

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Youth Arts & Recreation Centre

Hobart Cat Café

NORTH:

Hobart Out Tennis Inc

Attitude Counselling

Holyoake

CVGT Launceston

Hospice volunteers South

Deloraine House Inc

inside Hobart Joyous Celebrations

Launceston Community Legal Centre

Junction Motel

May Shaw Health Centre

Lindisfarne Psychology & Wellbeing Centre

Positive Solutions

Mr. Good Guy Bar + Asian Kitchen

The Blue Door

Mures Tasmania

NORTH-WEST:

Positive Solutions

Burnie City Council

Pulse Youth Health

Connect4Life

QTAS Arts

Dr Claire Jensen

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Tess Moodie Therapies

TASMANIA WIDE: Anglicare Tasmania Carers Tasmania Community and Public Sector Union Council on the Ageing Engender Equality Equal Together Family Violence Counselling and Support Service Mental Health Council of Tasmania Rainbow Communities Tasmania St John Ambulance Statewide Sexual Health Service Tasmania Police TasPride Transgender Tasmania Uniting AgeWell UTAS Ally Network Working It Out

SERVICES DIRECTORY EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TASMANIA https://equalopportunity.tas.gov.au Ph 1300 305 062 The office of the anti-discrimination commissioner

SCARLET ALLIANCE TASMANIAN SEX WORKER OUTREACH PROJECT outreachtas@scarletalliance.org.au Ph 0451 835 897 www.scarletalliance.org.au

TASPRIDE www.taspride.com Celebrating and uniting the Tasmanian LGBTIQQ community

WORKING IT OUT www.workingitout.org.au Sexuality and gender support and counselling

SEXUAL HEALTH SERVICE http://www.dhhs.tas.gov.au/sexualhealth Toll Free: 1800 675 859 Clinic 60 - 60 Collins St Hobart Ph 03 6166 2672 Mon – Fri 8:30 am – 4:30 pm (drop in on Tuesday afternoon and Thursday mornings) Clinic 34 - 34 Howick St Launceston Ph 03 6777 1371 Mon – Fri 8:30 am – 4:30 pm (drop in on Thursday mornings) Devonport - Ph 03 6777 1371 by appointment only Counselling, support, referrals, STI/HIV testing and PrEP prescriptions

TASCAHRD - TASMANIAN COUNCIL ON AIDS, HEPATITIS & RELATED DISEASES www.redthread.org.au Ph 1800 005 900

TAS POLICE LGBTIQ LIAISON OFFICERS www.police.tas.gov.au Ph 03 6230 2111 (Hobart) Ph 03 6336 7000 (Launceston) Ph 03 6434 5211 (North West)

ATDC TAS – THE ALCOHOL, TOBACCO & OTHER DRUGS COUNCIL OF TASMANIA http://www.atdc.org.au/ Advocating and initiatives

THE LINK YOUTH HEALTH SERVICE & HEAD SPACE FOR PEOPLE AGED 12-24 http://www.thelink.org.au 57 Liverpool St Hobart | Ph 03 6231 2927 Mon – Fri 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Counselling, outreach, case management, support for mental and sexual health, alcohol and drugs (incl NSP), family planning

HOBART COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICE www.hobartlegal.org 166 Macquarie Street, Hobart | Ph 03 6223 2500 7 Station Lane, Sorell | Ph 03 6265 1911 Shop 3, Covehill Fair, Bridgewater Ph 03 6263 4755

SENSUAL POTENTIAL RICHELLE MENZIES richelle@sensualpotential.com.au www.sensualpotential.com.au Ph 0408 843 221 Sexologist offering relationship and sexuality education and counselling

FAMILY PLANNING TASMANIA http://www.fpt.asn.au 421 Main Rd Glenorchy Ph 03 6273 9117 | Mon - Fri 9:00 am – 5.00 pm 269 Wellington St Launceston Ph 03 6343 4566 | Mon - Fri 9:00 am – 5.00 pm 1 Pine Ave Burnie Ph 03 6431 7692 (Mon, Wed and Thurs) Contraception and pregnancy counselling, sexual health checks, pap smears, information and referrals.

To have your service listed in this directory contact TasCAHRD on 03 6234 1242 or Health@tascahrd.org.au

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PROVIDING HEALTHCARE TO SEX WORKERS IN TASMANIA A free 90-minute training session for medical and allied health professionals TOPICS INCLUDE: • • • • • • •

Barriers sex workers may experience in accessing services Examining myths, stereotypes and preconceptions Providing ‘sex worker friendly’ health care Use of non-stigmatising language Healthcare needs specific to sex workers Safer sex strategies commonly utilised by sex workers Referring sex workers to other appropriate services

In 2018 Scarlet Alliance Tasmanian Sex Worker Project, in partnership with the Department of Health, conducted a Tasmanian Sex Worker Needs Assessment which examined barriers to sex workers accessing health and allied services.

Sex workers reported significant and specific barriers. In response the Project, in consultation with Tasmanian sex workers, developed Sex Worker Awareness Training Workshop content is adjusted for specific allied sectors Scarlet Alliance Tasmanian Sex Worker Project provides peer education and outreach services to sex workers throughout Tasmania.

book a zoom workshop for individuals or workplaces contact Scarlet Alliance Tasmanian Project coordinator Lisa Schmidt 0451 835 897 tas@scarletalliance.org.au

www.scarletalliance.org.au