Show notes
On LIFE IS A DISCO we chat with Alexander The. Alexander is the President of the Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Council (AGMC). He is also involved with the LGBTIQ+ Expert Advisory Group in Youth Justice (LEAG) and LGBTIQA+ Health and Wellbeing Expert Advisory Group. He has over 20 years of experience delivering projects across programs of work for critical communities, while delivering results tailored to the needs of multicultural and multi-faith communities. Alexander has extensive experience in community organisation leadership and strategies planning, change management and communication, research, analysis, and education-related activities. Alexander is passionate about multicultural and multi-faith LGBTIQ communities’ health and safety, and advocates for the rights of the community to ensure that their value and beliefs are respected.Alexander shares with Life Is A Disco about the work of the AGMC, its origins in 2004 (3:50) and explains how the AGMC influences through education, and surveys, creating safe spaces to meet (13:35) and its publications including the 2018 book Living and Loving in Diversity. We discuss how to navigate balancing our cultural background or faith, which can sometimes be hostile to LGBTIQ community (18:30). Alexander also shares with us the AGMC’s work towards bridging the rifts following the Religious Freedoms Bill (29:10) and the working group to address the far-right groups (39:00). We learn about the many successes and important reports published by the AGMC with other organisations including the Palliative Care report, and the intersection of racism faced within multiculturalism, multifaith and the LGBTIQ community, and a recent report about GLBTIQ and spirituality (33:50). Alexander asks you to contact the AGMC to share your stories of community safety (42:19), to become involved (43:18), and to support the AGMC with their amazing work.https://www.agmc.org.au