Abstract
This thematic issue of Social Inclusion highlights the connections between First Nations LGBTIQ+ people’s intersecting identities and inclusionary and exclusionary process in settler-colonial Australia. In this editorial, we briefly introduce key concepts and summarise the different contributions in the issue, providing some general conclusions and guidance on a possible future research agenda.
Highlights
In this thematic issue of Social Inclusion, we interrogate some of the contested, complex and intersecting meanings around the social inclusion and exclusion of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQ+ people in modern colonial settler Australia
First Nations LGBTIQ+ people living in the Australian colonial settler state share a lot of common experiences with other First Nations people in the US, Canada and New Zealand
The most significant, would be the impact of colonisation, invasion, genocide, forced displacement and ethnocide upon First Nations people as a whole. This has set up heteropatriarchal, heteronormative value systems, processes and practices that exclude First Nations LGBTIQ+ people based on race and gender/sexuality diversity
Summary
In this thematic issue of Social Inclusion, we interrogate some of the contested, complex and intersecting meanings around the social inclusion and exclusion of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQ+ people in modern colonial settler Australia. We acknowledge that this thematic issue reflects the fact that the journal is published in English and this may have excluded research from non-English speaking countries with significant First Nations populations. What research exists in English has historically focused on North American First Nations populations (see Soldatic, Briskman, Trewlynn, Leha, & Spurway, 2021a) This issue is unique in that all the articles investigate issues around Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQ+ people living in Australia. 2000s through initiatives such as the Māori Sexuality Project at Auckland University (Aspin & Hutchings, 2007) As such, this thematic issue gives a unique insight into the Australian experience, demonstrating the diversity of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQ+ people’s identity and cultural resistance to heteropatriarchal and heteronormative colonial settler value systems. Though we recognise that this selection of articles does not represent the diversity and extent of First Nations LGBTIQ+ experiences and identities in Australia, it gives a small glimpse at the breadth of First Nations sexuality and gender diversity identities in the country
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