Australia's most respected LGBTI news source
Friday 29 November 2013 | Issue 1203 | starobserver.com.au
HIV HEALTH CENTRES AND ASSISTANCE LOCATIONS PAGE 35
Northern Territory
Benjamin Riley
TWO sistergirls from the Northern
Territory have established the...
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Australia's most respected LGBTI news source
Friday 29 November 2013 | Issue 1203 | starobserver.com.au
HIV HEALTH CENTRES AND ASSISTANCE LOCATIONS PAGE 35
Northern Territory
Benjamin Riley
TWO sistergirls from the Northern
Territory have established the world’s first
organisation providing specific support for
sistergirls and brotherboys in Indigenous
communities, as well as support NT’s
LGBTI community.
Sisters and Brothers NT co-founders Brie
andRosalinaCurtisaresistersandsistergirls.
In Melbourne this week to support the
launch of Beyondblue’s Families Like Mine,
a new e-book for families of LGBTI youth,
they spoke with the Star Observer about
setting up their organisation and Australia’s
sistergirl communities.
“Sistergirls have always been here,
before even Europeans came along. There
were always transgendered people in the
community,” said Brie, who, along with
Rosalina, was born biologically male in the
remote desert community of Akwerrnarre.
“Back then... they would automatica
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