Innovators
Whether it be through politics, art or gaming, LGBTQIA+ people are renowned innovators. Histories of oppression and exclusion prompted the artists in Absolutely Queer to drive change with their fine-tuned creative thinking and problem solving. These innovators reform laws, representations and imaginations, ensuring inclusivity and acceptance at the centre.
Norrie
Norrie is a non-binary sustainability and social justice activist and cartoonist for the South Sydney Herald. They are best known for winning a case in the High Court of Australia in 2014 that abolished the presumption of a person’s sex always being a binary of either male or female. Norrie became the first person in the world to officially be declared by a final court ruling as neither a man nor a woman.
The Australian legal ruling recording their sex as non-specified became used as a legal precedent around the world. They spread joy with their rainbow clothing and the bubbles emanating from their flower-wreathed bike as they ride around the streets of Sydney. Through their creative and political activism they have sought to improve the lives of transgender and other gender diverse people.
‘When I looked at the barriers around gender, particularly what was thought appropriate for women, I thought, no, I don't want these boxes, these barriers, around what I'm allowed to be capable of.’
