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Homosexual Histories Conference</i></b></span></font></span></font></div>
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members of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Intersex Queer+ communities, academics, researchers, students, community members and arts workers to explore and discuss histories of LGBTIQ+ life, politics, arts and culture in Australia.</span></font></span></font></div>
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<font size="2" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font size="3" style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The term ‘queer’ is commonly used in
two ways.</span></font></span></font></div>
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<font size="2" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font size="3" style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Some people use queer as an umbrella
term for LGBTI+ while others use it to refer to identities that can’t be contained by categories such as gay and lesbian. In both cases, queer is used as a noun that has been reclaimed from its former use as an abusive term.</span></font></span></font></div>
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Queer/ing is a way of making ideas and ideals that are largely taken for granted, strange; of turning them on their heads, of undermining their authority.</span></font></span></font></div>
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<font size="2" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font size="3" style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">So, for example, we could argue that
male and female should be matters of self-determination rather than biology, or we could queer the idea of binary gender. Or we could argue for the right of queer people to marry, but we could also queer the institution of marriage.</span></font></span></font></div>
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workshops, panels, performances, films, and roundtable discussions that engage with the term queer in any of the ways described above.</span></font></span></font></div>
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not limited to:</b></span></font></span></font></div>
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lives then and now</span></font></span></font></div>
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– histories, identities, lifestyles, practices, places, politics, institutions, bodies, feelings,</span></font></span></font></div>
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art of queer: music, performance, film, literature, fine arts, museums</span></font></span></font></div>
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youth</span></font></span></font></div>
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ageing</span></font></span></font></div>
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trouble with queer – the pros and cons of the term and its uses</span></font></span></font></div>
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of no more than 300 words + a brief bio of no more than 150 words to </span></font><a href="mailto:queerahh2017@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font size="3" style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">queerahh2017@gmail.com</span></font></a><font size="3" color="black" style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> no
later than </span></font><font size="3" color="black" style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>31 July 2017</b></span></font></span></font></div>
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of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives.</span></font></span></font></div>
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