Living and Loving in Diversity

<p> Sad and funny sexy and sensitive angry and insightful: the deeply personal stories in this book reflect a rainbow of experiences and emotions as diverse as the storytellers themselves. </p><p>Join chief editor Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli and the Australian LGBTIQ Multicultural Council for a journey of discovery through queer multicultural multifaith Australia with more than sixty voices from across the spectrum of sexualities and genders families and relationships. </p><p><strong>Annette Xiberras</strong> lesbian Wurundjeri Elder with a Maltese father provides a Welcome to Book and insights into her Indigenous-migrant family. Filmmakers <strong>Tony Ayres </strong>and <strong>Franco Di Chiera </strong>share their experiences telling stories from minority cultures on Australian screens while <strong>Benjamin Law </strong>talks queer Asian-Australian identity and making <em>The Family Law </em>for SBS. Broadcaster <strong>Faustina Agolley </strong>talks about being ‘out’ as a woman of colour and <strong>Anton Enus </strong>tells us about coming out as a ‘coloured’ gay man in South Africa. Entertainer <strong>Paul Capsis </strong>reflects on doing <em>Cabaret </em>in the age of Trump while <strong>Asiel Adan </strong>talks about non-binary gender across the US border in Mexico. Meanwhile <strong>Christos Tsiolkas </strong>imagines Ari the protagonist of his iconic novel <em>Loaded </em>now middle-aged during a weekend of mass violence in distant Paris while <strong>Patrick Abboud </strong>travels the world so he can come home. <strong>Alyena Mohummadally </strong>searches for reconciliation between her queer and Muslim identities and <strong>Tony Briffa </strong>shares a personal story of growing up with intersex variations and the rigidity of Western medicine.</p>