GRAI - Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Retirement Association Incorporated

 

Welcome to the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Retirement Association Incorporated (GRAI) website.

We are a Western Australian community-based group with a mission to create a responsive and inclusive mature age environment that promotes and supports a quality life for older and ageing people of diverse sexualities and gender identities.

We are a voluntary group that works actively in the policy and political environment and we would welcome your support and involvement.

As with any organisation, we value feedback from anyone who visits our site so please check back here often for the latest in GLBTI retirement news and let us know if there’s something you want to see us include on our site.

 “The future belongs to truth, science and rationality rather than to dogma, hatred, and ignorance".

The Honourable Justice Michael Kirby AC, CMG

An excerpt from Justice Kirby’s opening address at the Inaugural GRAI Public Forum – held on Tuesday 25 October 2005.

GRAI Invites You – 3 Pride Events

October 11th, 2011 Comments off

GRAI Invites You

 

Talking Generations: GLBTI conversations across the generations

‘Talking Generations’ creates a space for conversations in a café setting to explore ways we can build community between young and older GLBTI people.

Join us for an afternoon of creative ideas. How can we best build connections to benefit everyone but especially to support our seniors?

Gold coin donation entry. Full café service available for purchase.
RSVP preferred, to info@grai.org.au

Sun 23 Oct, 2pm–5pm
Coode St Café, 24 Coode St, Mt Lawley

GRAI + Greens WA present: Fair Go For GLBTI Elders
The Greens
GLBTI elders remain largely invisible.
Why are many of our elders going back into the closet?
What changes to the law are needed and what can be done to create a safe and inclusive environment?
Please join this interactive forum to discuss these issues.

Sun 30 Oct, 3pm–4.30pm
Community Room, Northbridge Piazza, Cnr James/Lake Sts

Pride Film Festival + GRAI Fundraiser:
scenes from the movie gen silentGEN SILENT

An award-winning film documenting the lives of older LGBTI, the generation that fought hardest to come out and is now going back in the closet.

“One of the most important LGBT documentaries ever made.” – gaycharlotte.com
“This is one of the most amazing documentaries that you will see in this lifetime.” – Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival.

Tickets $20 – includes pre-film wine and nibbles, hosted by Pride Inc.

Sun 30 Oct, 4.30pm refreshments, 5.30pm screening
Cinema Paradiso, 164 James St, Northbridge

To purchase tickets online click here

Flier at PDF GRAI PRIDE Flier

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GRAI Matters – September 2011

October 11th, 2011 Comments off

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

  1. Letter from the Chair
  2. GRAI Membership
  3. Annual Report Round-up
  4. Collecting Stories
  5. Queensland’s LGBTI Aged Care Packages
  6. GRAI’s Pride Events

Welcome to the PRIDE GRAI newsletter. GRAI will have quite a presence at PRIDE, putting ageing in our community on the agenda. We have three great events – two community forums and the WA premier of the LGBTI film “Gen Silent”. We will also have a stall at Fair Day, so pop past to say hi. More details are inside this newsletter: they promise to be fun and I hope that our members can support these events.

Read more at PDF GRAI MATTERS – Sept 2011

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GRAI Matters – June 2011

July 19th, 2011 Comments off

In this issue:

  1. Letter from the Chair
  2. A nice glass of red…
  3. GRAI AGM and “Reaching Out” community forum
  4. Gabi Rosenstreich
  5. The Pinnacle Foundation
  6. Loneliness among older LGB adults
  7. Ready or not: HIV in Aged Care
  8. Web Resources

Welcome to the latest GRAI newsletter. Your hard working board
has been working quietly in the background ensuring that LGBTI
ageing issues are advanced. This has included a short submission to
the Department of Health and Ageing on their Accreditation
Standards for residential aged care. There was no specific mention
of sexuality orientation or gender diversity yet other minority
groups were mentioned. Again there we were not the only players
to put this view and colleagues and organizations in other states
also wrote submissions.

Board member June Lowe and I had an informative meeting with
Senator Rachel Siewert about potential lobbying strategies to
advance the core concerns of GRAI. This was interesting as Rachel is
the Green‟s spokesperson for aging issues and she was able to
provide good insight into who are some of the key players that our
organization should be meeting with. We also discussed the likely
impact of the full recognition of same sex marriage and whether
when that happens, as surely it must, that this will have large flow
on effects for other LGBTI sectors.

We have been in discussion with ACON (AIDS Council of NSW), about
allowing the use of GRAI/Curtin University Best Practice Guidelines
developed last year as part of our research project, in a current
project ACON is undertaking. They received substantial funding
from the Department of Health and Ageing to roll out an LGBTI
awareness raising training program for staff in residential aged care
providers. Initially this is being undertaken as a pilot program.
Two issues closer to Perth are the forthcoming AGM and another call
about ideas on how GRAI might facilitate a visitor program.

Read more at PDF GRAI MATTERS June 2011

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