Pride Line vox pops, file 6

Pride Line vox pops, 2-9 July 2023
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Prideline_2023-07-02_1206.mp3

00:21.5

My story of pride is being proud of who I am, and of my partner and our relationship and a belief that someday we'll all be accepted by all of society. And until then, we just keep on keeping on. Love your work. Bye.

Prideline_2023-07-02_1655.mp3

00:11.0

This recording contains offensive language

Celebrating degeneracy, a day of the rope is coming for the woke. Fucking degenerate scum.

Prideline_2023-07-04_1325.mp3

02:00.3

I think I first knew that I was queer around probably 12 or 13. And it took me a while to figure out where I was and I went through a few labels, actually, before I realised that maybe not everything needs to be labelled or compartmentalised and I grew quite content with that.

I came out not to my parents or my family because I knew it didn't matter. I was very fortunate in that way that, I knew that I was safe at home and it didn't matter who I brought home as a partner. So I never saw the necessity in discussing my my sexuality, or my gender with my family but, I don't, I don't. Not all of my friends had that privilege or luxury. And I'm very, I think I'm very aware of how lucky I am to be in a position that I am.

And even with all of that, I think there's still a huge sense of insecurity in the way I present myself or the way I'm perceived by others. Umm, feeling like perhaps I don't. I don't look clear enough. Or, um, perhaps my experiences are invalid, but I'm incredibly grateful to be part of a community that's so open and loving, safe.

And I try and dedicate a lot of time and energy towards making sure that things become safer. And that I can be a safe person for others. Um, so yeah, that's that's my story.

Prideline_2023-07-04_1513.mp3

03:33.6

OK, um, first I'd like to not be contacted after this. Thank you and OK, so I first I first figured out I was trans during the school holidays, like right before I started year 7 and when I did start high school I, I made no like effort to hide, hide it like in the slightest. And you know, I'm I'm, I'm from the Central Coast people will people stare at you you and judge you if you dress like differently at all. So yeah, this is this. This was pretty ballsy.

Yeah, this this is pretty ballsy. Especially the fact that um. Towards like the middle of your seven, like I saw like dressing like old goth and I was already being bullied quite a bit because the fact I didn't try to hide the fact that I was trans. So, yeah.

It hasn't been going well for me, just. Like there's all this. I I think the main like cause of it is like religious stigma and misinformation because you know you have like religious people saying like, Oh, you know, I, I, I can't call call you a he because it goes against my religion and just just, I I don't feel like people are being educated enough about it and the few that are like either still don't really understand it or just, um. Sorry, got off track.

Umm, yeah, just, just considering the fact that like you know, Sydney hosts the World Pride and like, you know that we actually had class at my high school about, like, you know, LGBTI identities. I I seriously thought that like the homophobia and trans phobia like within, like high schools and stuff would be like like down, but it it just keeps getting worse like.

I remember, I remember recently actually, all these these people in my math class, but um, like trying to say that like I wasn't a boy because I used the girls bathroom. That I was being a pervert. It when really, my only goal when, like I use the school toilets, is to like, get in. You know, like do my business, fix up my clothes, whatever, and get out. So yeah, that was rough.

And then luckily, the school decided to, like, opened the cleric toilet so like anyone can use it. So I started using that but people still give me crap for that ohm. Like it's it's like I can't win like like that's like I try not to like let people's words affect me but to be fair I I'm in year 10 now. I've been like ignoring these people since year seven. So just more, more shit needs to be done about this in schools, so honestly. Thank you.

Prideline_2023-07-04_1556.mp3

01:47.1

Hey Queen, I would not like to be contacted after this. When I was 11. Actually, I think I can tell this story. Stop looking at me, Kate.

When I was 11, there was this girl and I was like, wow, I was kind of had a crush on her and I knew I had a crush on her. But gay people weren't real because I was 11 and I had absolutely no queer representation because it was 2017. And the only representation was the gay marriage vote, which I knew nothing about because my parents refused to talk about it. Should I keep going?

OK, well. Then year seven, my friend came out as bisexual. I was like, ohhh, gay is a real thing and I can be OK stop laughing and I can be gay. And so I was like, I'm also bisexual. And then I wasn't. And then I had my my sexuality crisis phase. That was fun.

And then I dated a girl and then I broke off with that girl because it just was not working. And I was thinking, why am I not liking this girl? But I left it cause I thought I was actually in love with this other girl and that was why our relationship wasn't working.

But then, but then I go and I ask out this other girl in quarantine so it kind of didn't count. And then, and then we broke up a month and a half later because I realised I was aromantic and life is going pretty good for me now. I love gays.

OK, You wanna tell your story? We'll make it a whole thing. Put it down. OK. Thanks.

Prideline_2023-07-04_1559.mp3

01:20.6

I do not wish to be contacted by the State Library. So in about Year 8, I knew of gay people because they weren't very prominent in my life. And then at that time I knew I was gay but I didn't tell anyone because I didn't feel comfortable enough in myself to share that until I got to the age, in Year 9.

When I was in lockdown, I had more time to myself, more time to think about it. And eventually I came to the conclusion that I was gay. And I went as pansexual for a good six months, but again, didn't really tell anyone.

And then in year 10, when we were in like the six month lockdown, I worked out that I really didn't see my future with a man at any point in my life. And that became me becoming a lesbian in Year 10. Wait, no, it's Year 9. So sorry, but no, It was Year 9. So you yeah, thank you.

Prideline_2023-07-06_1340.mp3

02:13.2

This recording contains offensive language

I'm calling from the phone booth right outside Pride Revolution after going on a date and visiting the exhibit and I don't know what to really say. Other than just. Trans rights are human rights. Fucking queer liberation. Don't be fooled by the people who try to gentrify and pink wash all spaces. Don't be fooled by corporate corruption.

Umm, Pride Month. Pride is all about defying the state and its attempts to impinge on on our right to, you know, take HRT if we want, to fuck whoever, we want to date, whoever we want, or not.

Umm, and from from the US in those awful hotbeds of theocratic delusion that are the red states to Uganda all the way through to here. Umm. We have to resist Christ Fascists theocrats. Even, even the most secular and paternalistic, you know, toughs and transphobes who don't use religion and pervaded to to justify the hateful bullshit. And we need to be militant about it. We we can't afford to equivocate about the threat that they pose to us as queer people.

Umm. So. You know. I mean. You've probably heard this before. I can imagine that there have been many other Zuma queers like me who have been flooding this line with similar shit. Umm, so, you know, I'll leave it at that. Not gays as in happy, but queer as in fuck you.

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00:46.4

Hi, I'm here with my friend Lauren right now. Umm, our Pride story is that we're both queer and we met as part of a Doctor Who group chat bonding over the representation in 13th Doctor's era.

And Lauren is from Liverpool, UK. I live here in Sydney and we formed such a close friendship with each other and with the other five members of our group all over the world that Lauren has now flown all the way across the world to Sydney to spend 3 weeks with myself and the other Australians in our group.

We came out to the Botanic Gardens, we wandered past the State Library, we saw this exhibition and we came in and I just think that's really special.

Prideline_2023-07-07_1225.mp3

01:36.3

So I think my Pride story probably started in 1999. I always knew my sexuality. I always knew I liked guys. I never felt guilt. I never felt shame. I wasn't closeted. I don't know whether you'd say I was out, but it was certainly wasn't a secret. And I never felt I needed to hide it.

But when I felt I needed to do something about it, I think the flashpoint was, I was just recently had finished university, my undergrad in London, and I was walking through Soho with friends and they've gone into a shop and I was waiting for them and it was near Tottenham Court Road, Charing Cross Road.

And there was this club called the Astoria and it had these gay nights called G-A-Y. And I remember seeing this huge queue of people waiting to go into G-A-Y at the London Astoria. And I just watched them and I thought, I want to be a part of that. And that I think is when I decided to actually act on my sexuality, meet people around my own age who were gay, stocking, going clubbing.

In fact, first I went to a gay youth group and then they took me to this club G-A-Y. And for about 5 or 6 years I was at G-A-Y every Friday, every Saturday and often on Mondays and Thursdays, probably for five or six years. I think my record was about 14 or 15 nights. I was out in a row, including at the G-A-Y at the London Astoria. So, so many memories and that's really how I think it took off for me. Thank you. Bye.

Prideline_2023-07-08_1449.mp3

01:45.2

Hello, my name is Leonard. I was born in 1971. I first came to Sydney, Australia in 1991 as an overseas student studying a business degree at the University of NSW and I was boarding with my family, who is extremely conservative and we all go to the Presbyterian Church in Surrey Hills.

But I was quite comfortable with my sexuality until one day, the brother in law who I boarded with, breached my privacy and opened the letters from the replies from those classifieds from Sydney Star Observer and expose my sexuality to the family. So I was, I was made to come out involuntarily. But I was quite comfortable with it.

But because, sort of, family conservatism and religious tradition and they did give me a very hard time during my university study. And I remember during that time there was a Catholic group called Acceptance, where you can call up and they will give support to those people who are having problems with their families.

And all in all, I'm glad that everything that happened between 91 to 95 when I was studying in Sydney and I moved to Singapore to work for a charter accounting firm and moved back to Sydney in year 2000. And since then life has been good to me and I just would like to share my story. Since then, I've been working in the business, in the commercial and now I'm a university lecturer at University of NSW Business School. Thank you for listening. Love you. Bye.

Prideline_2023-07-09_1426.mp3

00:13.1

I came out as a queer and came from a Bosnian Muslim community and don't regret anything.

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00:21.3

This is Sarah Sack and Aaron Danzier leaving a message for the Pride exhibition at the State Library NSW. What's the date? 9th of July 2023. Amazing. We'll check back on. Let's see if it recorded. Bye bye. Love the exhibition. Bye bye.
Pride Line vox pops, 2-9 July 2023