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My name is Gigi Sing, and I work for a large organisation in Auckland, a local government organisation. And I've attended this conference to gain a better understanding of the issues around, uh, gay lesbians, bisexuals, transgender, uh, around their sexual identity and orientation in our organisation. We have a networking group for, um, our sexual orientation identities. [00:00:30] And that is, um, embedded with a number of members across the organisation in the region. So, in a way, this conference is trying to understand how we as a network group, can better facilitate in a large organisation and how we can get a voice across. Oh, that sounds very interesting. So you've been at the conference. You were there yesterday. Um, how did you find it? Interesting. Yeah, I had some really good speakers. Uh, good points. And you said it was quite interesting. [00:01:00] I mean, I think it was really good to get a diverse, um, perspective of how New Zealand uh, history has led to what we have come through. And sexual orientation and identity and a human rights approach to that. Um, some speakers were OK. Some speakers were great and it was a long day, so Yes, it was. It was. And I think by the end, we, um you know, we found that some presentations gave you valuable insight into how, um, different people [00:01:30] in our community relate to, um, human rights and how they've seen and experienced the issues that have come across, um, which gave me really good insight into how they are as you're different from each other, you know? So that's, um that's a professional impression for your work. Yeah. What about you as a person? Um, I found that, you know, I shouldn't be living in, um we find ourselves ticking in this box that we [00:02:00] find ourselves. We exclusive into this box, and we're not. We're part of a greater community. We're actually part of a, you know, more of a general community as well. And, um, I think understanding who you are as a person, um, and getting yourself outside that box is really important. So, personally, I felt that we always say we're gay and we tick this box, but we don't actually realise that, you know, we're part of a bigger gay community who is part of a general community, and we need to kind of look out for our peers as well. So that was really important.
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