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2025
“Responsible and informed reporting helps the public see LGBTQ+ people as part of the broader social fabric – as colleagues, neighbours, friends and family members. Language that accurately and respectfully reflects people’s identities signals that their experiences are valid and worthy of dignity.”
“These items include a chest binder, passed on from one person going through their gender journey to another, and a phone pouch that had held the first phone used for the Oogachaga counselling hotline set up almost two decades ago for the queer community.”
“投入时间囊的物品包括戒指、束胸带等私人物件,以及来自公民组织Oogachaga在20年前推出电话辅导热线所使用的手机。最后放入时间囊的是一张呈现粉红点集会现场群众合影的宝丽来(polaroid)照片。”
“At its launch event, Leow Yangfa, executive director at Oogachaga, a social support group for the LGBTQ+ community since 1999, waved the ancient Blackberry that served as one of Oogachaga’s hotlines, before the group had a physical office. “[T]his phone for a lot of people meant a connection…to a volunteer who would listen to whatever was troubling them. Whether it was somebody who’d broken up with their girlfriend and she couldn’t tell anyone else, or a young gay man who’d just come from a clinic [where] he’d been told he’s got HIV, or maybe a trans person who was just figuring out what was going on, couldn’t access hormones or maybe just had a fight with their family.” The phone’s hearts-speckled cover will go into the time capsule.”
