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Michael catches up with James Seow, faciltator of Thorne Harbour Health's Gay Asian Proud (GAP) about events that support social connection for same sex-attracted Asian men. Gay Asian Proud holds regular art workshops, health talks, group discussions, yum cha lunches, team sports, and film nights for and by queer Asian men and occassionally other Asian identified LGBTIQ+ people and their partners, and allies. James and Michael discusses HIV and other health disparities for queer Asian men, and the importance of peer education and community develop in building resiliance and forming peer networks. How does a peer act as an authority figure when disseminating health information? How does filial piety (an emphasis on respect for and devotion to one's parents and ancestors) impact how queer Asian men move throughout the world? The next GAP event will be held at the Ice House on 16 September - for more information join the GAP mailing list where you can stay up to date and be invited to the events by visiting ht

International Overdose Awareness Day's founder SJ Finn, Vanessa Hollo from the Better Health Network and Lucy Burnett from Thorne Harbour Health discuss the causes and symptoms of drug overdose. We also talk about how to prevent and respond to a drug overdose, and the importance of destigmatisation. Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing. If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at Thorne Harbour Health and in South Australia at SAMESH.

Stan Pogroszewski and Dean Beals from DKBmed join us to discuss Fade Out HIV which aims to educate barbers in the US on how to have conversations about sexual health with their clients. Find out more about Fade Out HIV at DKBmed's website here. Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing. If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at Thorne Harbour Health and in South Australia at SAMESH.

FEAST Festival's new CEO Tish Naughton joins us to speak about joining the FEAST team and what attendees can look forward to this Pridevember. Running Nov 1-19, find out more about FEAST here. Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing. If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at Thorne Harbour Health and in South Australia at SAMESH.

Dr Ruth McNair from the University of Melbourne joins us to discuss the ALMA Conference, it’s history and this year’s theme, Authenticity – Keeping it Real. They also chat with Jack and Rachel about the Australian Lesbian Medical Association. Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing. If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at Thorne Harbour Health and in South Australia at SAMESH.

Amelia Arnold from the Growing Queer Families Alliance at Monash University joins us to discuss her research into LGBTIQA+ experiences accessing preconception and pregnancy care. She also chats with Jack and Rachel about her experience presenting this research at the Sexuality and Social Work Conference in Glasgow recently. Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing. If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at Thorne Harbour Health and in South Australia at SAMESH.

Brisbane recently hosted the 12th International Conference on HIV Science (IAS 2023). Held in conjunction with the conference, HIV Science as Art is a new initiative pairing HIV positive artists from around the world with internationally renowned HIV scientists. The pairings then created original works that speak to some of the scientific advancements being presented at the global HIV conference. Cal Hawk talks to one of the exhibition's scientific curators Dr Talia Mota as well as one of the pairings - Taiwanese artist Kairon (Ren-Kai) Liu and social scientist Prof Kane Race. Kai talks about creating his piece and issues that surfaced in bringing the artwork into Australia. Then Kane speaks to his role in the project as well as the importance of social science in the ongoing response to HIV. --- Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing. If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au

Brisbane recently hosted the 12th International Conference on HIV Science (IAS 2023). The conference features scientific advancements and findings from around the world with regard to HIV and a number of other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Reporting from the conference, Cal Hawk talks to Dr Chase Cannon about some of his work investigating the efficacy of using Doxycycline to prevent the acquisition of STIs such as chlamydia, gonorrhoea, and syphilis. — Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing. If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au

Cal Hawk reports back from the recent IAS 2023 Conference in Brisbane. The biennial conference showcases the latest scientific findings from around the world regarding HIV and other infectious diseases. One year on in the global outbreak of MPOX (monkeypox), Cal is talks to Mateo Prochazka, an infectious disease epidemiologist and public health consultant from the World Health Organisation (WHO), about the lasting impact of MPOX. This week two cases of MPOX were reported in Melbourne amongst men who have sex with men who were unvaccinated. For more information on MPOX and how to get your first and second vaccination shots, head to: thorneharbour.org/mpox --- Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing. If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au

Dr Adam Carr was a founding member of the Victorian AIDS Action Committee in 1983 and later served as President of the organisation in 1986-87 when it was the Victorian AIDS Council - today known as Thorne Harbour Health. He worked in gay community media from 1979 to 2001, including as editor of OutRage magazine. Adam talks to Cal Hawk about his role in the community response to HIV and AIDS as well as his time in community media. This episode is part of the Community Living Legends series, reflecting on a legacy of community-driven action to improve our health and wellbeing as Thorne Harbour Health celebrates its 40th Anniversary. Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing. If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at Thorne Harbour Health.

Chris Gill was a founding member of the Victorian AIDS Action Committee back in 1983. As the organisation became the Victorian AIDS Council, Chris went on the worked in a number of volunteer and paid roles until the mid 1990s, including as foundation Manager of the People Living With AIDS Program and as Campaigns and Community Relations Officer in the Education Program. Chris also served as editor or the Melbourne Star Observer for 3 years from 1988 and was a Co–Convenor of the Victorian Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby (now the Pride Lobby).  In the early 2000s, he helped set up the philanthropic Gay and Lesbian Foundation of Australia (now the Pride Foundation). This episode is part of the Community Living Legends series, reflecting on a legacy of community-driven action to improve our health and wellbeing as Thorne Harbour Health celebrates its 40th Anniversary. Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing. If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through id

Phil Carswell OAM is a longstanding community advocate. Forged in the fires of gay and lesbian liberation, Phil was the Founding President of the Victorian AIDS Action Committee, later the Victorian AIDS Council, and today - Thorne Harbour Health. Phil worked tirelessly in leading the community response to HIV and AIDS in Australia both within community organisations and while working in government health departments Phil represented the Victorian AIDS Council on the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations Council which he also co-founded and was appointed as one of two gay community representatives to the National Advisory Council on AIDS chaired by Ms Ita Buttrose. In 2015, Phil received a Medal in the Order of Australia for services to public health, particularly for people with HIV/AIDS. This episode is part of the Community Living Legends series, reflecting on a legacy of community-driven action to improve our health and wellbeing as Thorne Harbour Health celebrates its 40th Anniversary. Check ou

One of the founding members of the Victorian AIDS Action Committee (now Thorne Harbour Health) and longstanding human rights activist, Jamie Gardiner OAM talks with Cal Hawk about his role in getting sex amongst men decriminalised in Victoria in the early 1980s and his involvement in the early response to HIV and AIDS in Australia. This episode is part of the Community Living Legends series, reflecting on community-driven action and looking to the future as Thorne Harbour Health celebrates its 40th Anniversary in 2023. Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing. If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria and South Australia at Thorne Harbour Health.

Dennis Altman is the writer and academic behind the ground-breaking book Homosexual: Oppression & Liberation during the gay liberation movement on the early 1970s. He has taken an active role in advancing the community response to HIV and AIDS and LGBTIQ+ human rights more broadly. This episode is part of the Community Living Legends series, reflecting on community-driven action and looking to the future as Thorne Harbour Health celebrates its 40th Anniversary in 2023. Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing. If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria and South Australia at Thorne Harbour Health.

David Menadue is a longstanding advocate for people living with HIV and was one of the first people in Australia to be in the media as someone living with HIV in the 1980s. We chat with him about his role in community organisation and establishing groups for people living with HIV. This episode is part of the Community Living Legends series, reflecting on community-driven action and looking to the future as Thorne Harbour Health celebrates its 40th Anniversary in 2023. Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing. If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at Thorne Harbour Health and in South Australia at SAMESH.

Alison Thorne a longstanding socialist feminist and advocate for our LGBTIQ+ communities as well as half the namesake of Thorne Harbour Health. We discuss with her the current landscape as a longstanding feminist around that class we’re seeing around trans-exclusionary radical feminism. This episode is part of the Community Living Legends series, reflecting on community-driven action and looking to the future as Thorne Harbour Health celebrates its 40th Anniversary in 2023. Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing. If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at Thorne Harbour Health and in South Australia at SAMESH.

We discuss how to support rainbow mob amidst the debate surrounding the Indigenous Voice to Parliament and the upcoming referendum. Shane Sturgiss from BlaQ Aboriginal Corporation and Jill Gallagher from VACCHO join us on this episode. Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing. If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at Thorne Harbour Health and in South Australia at SAMESH.

Shane Sturgiss from the BlaQ Aboriginal Corporation joins us to talk about his upbringing, identity, and his interest in counselling and community services. We also discuss BlaQ's training, case management, and the importance of culture for wellbeing for rainbow mob. Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing. If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at Thorne Harbour Health and in South Australia at SAMESH.

We chat with the Thorne Harbour Health team that went to Harm Reduction 2023 about their thoughts about the conference. Senior Policy Analyst James Hamlet and Therapeutic Services SA Manager Venetia Brissenden join us to share their reflections on the event. Venetia also talks about Thorne Harbour Health's new LGBTIQ+ Mental Health Service launching in Adelaide. Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing. If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at Thorne Harbour Health and in South Australia at SAMESH.

Robyn Lierton joins us to discuss ECH's services that support diverse communities in ageing well in South Australia. Positive Ageing for Positive People aims to support people 45 years and older living with HIV in developing skills, social connections, and self-empowerment, which are integral to ageing well. Presented by SAMESH, the workshop series is supported by a Positive Ageing Fellowship Grant from the Office for Ageing Well. Learn more about or sign up for the Positive Ageing for Positive People workshop series in Adelaide here. Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing. If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at Thorne Harbour Health and in South Australia at SAMESH.