Go behind the frontlines of the AIDS crisis and understand the heartbreaking reality of transgender treatment in the 80’s, with proud First Nations queer nurse and health academic Prof. Odette Best.

Check out the anthology on which the podcast is based - Queersland.

If this episode brought up anything for you,  QLife (1800 184 527) offers peer support and referrals from 3 pm to midnight daily, and Rainbow Door (1800 729 367) operates 10 am–5 pm, 7 days a week.

 Produced by F+K Media with And Also Books, supported by Arts Queensland.

Meet the award-winning and prolific writer Kris Kneen. They explore navigating the queer scene when they didn't fit into a neat box, and what it was like growing up in regional Queensland when their grandmother wouldn’t even allow them to watch kissing on screen.

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Queersland is a beautifully curated anthology - and now podcast - that charts the rebirth of Queensland as a place where Queer people could be themselves. New episodes every Thursday.