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“And Yet We Are Still Excluded”: Reclaiming Multicultural Queer Histories and Engaging with Contemporary Multicultural Queer Realities

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Cultural, Religious and Political Contestations

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In this chapter, we contend that reclaiming multiculturalism entails engaging with and including sexual and gender diverse histories, heritages and contemporary realities. We explore the ongoing dilemmas, concerns and strategies in placing “multisexuality” and “multigender” on the “multicultural” agenda in Australia, particularly in relation to policy development and research. We discuss how “reclaiming multiculturalism” and the promotion of “global citizenship” requires a reclaiming of multicultural queer histories and heritages, achieved through decolonising research projects, postcolonising socio-political activist networks, and publications that engage with multiplicity in identities and communities, or “multiple lifeworlds”.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See Gay and Lesbian Health Victoria CALD section for a comprehensive list of the available resources/research reports: http://www.glhv.org.au/library?keys=&topic=36&format=All.

  2. 2.

    See http://www.agmc.org.au/multiculturaldirectory/ for listings of groups.

  3. 3.

    In the international realm, we also wish to acknowledge an online English-language website that engages with the intersections of gender/sexuality and/queer identities, Fridae, that publishes work from within the Asian region and the diaspora.

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Low, L., Pallotta-Chiarolli, M. (2015). “And Yet We Are Still Excluded”: Reclaiming Multicultural Queer Histories and Engaging with Contemporary Multicultural Queer Realities. In: Mansouri, F. (eds) Cultural, Religious and Political Contestations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16003-0_11

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