Courtney Act to compete for Indigenous LGBTI suicide prevention on Dancing with the Stars
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Drag icon Courtney Act has chosen Indigenous LGBTI suicide prevention organisation Black Rainbow as her charity on Network 10’s revival of听Dancing with the Stars.
Act burst out of the gates on the show’s first episode, landing the week’s best score for her performance and making her an early frontrunner.
On the show, each celebrity competes for a trophy and on behalf of a chosen charity with $50,000 for their cause up for grabs. It was announced this week that Act would be competing on behalf of Black Rainbow,听.
Act hopes that she can at least raise awareness of the issue and the work Black Rainbow is doing, and ideally win the money for one of the only organisations responding to the specific needs of Indigenous LGBTI people.
“In 2019, it’s really important to be thinking outside your box,” the听Drag Race听runner-up and听Celebrity Big Brother UK 飞颈苍苍别谤听蝉补颈诲.
“Minority identities intersect and I think the way we can get ahead is by reaching across the threshold and using our own privileges to support each other.”
Black Rainbow’s founder .
鈥淲hat may shock and surprise you are that there is also homophobia in Indigenous health.
鈥淚t is within Indigenous health where Indigenous queers have been ignored, excluded and erased. Similarly, racism also exists in queer health literature,鈥� he said.
鈥淭he absence of Indigenous LGBQTI people from Indigenous health is supported by the ongoing structural exclusion we face at an Indigenous health policy level.
鈥淎ll the Indigenous health leaders sitting around the table making these decisions, decisions that exclude Indigenous LGBTI people, are not LGBTI Indigenous people.”
Bonson described sending 22 emails to Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion, who is not contesting the next federal election, as well as visiting his electorate office without hearing back.
In August last year, , with the research conducted in partnership with Black Rainbow – the first research of its kind.
Black Rainbow is to hold their own gatherings around the country.
Dancing with the听Stars is won by public vote, which means viewers can help get Act over the line to support Black Rainbow.
Black Rainbow is funded largely through donations, so you can also make a direct contribution to their work by visiting .
Watch Courtney Act’s high-scoring routine below:
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