Queer Displacements Conference
2025 Queer Displacements
Regional challenges, global solidarity, practical solutions
focus on the Asia and the Pacific
4-5 September 2025 | Victoria University
Naarm (Melbourne) Australia
About the Queer Displacements conference
The Queer Displacements Conference, held biannually since 2019, is the first and only event in the Asia-Pacific region that focuses on the intersectional challenges and solutions for LGBTIQA+ forcibly displaced people. It offers a unique platform to foreground the voices and lived experiences of LGBTIQA+ people, building awareness, solidarity, and alliances to achieve justice, protection, and sustainable solutions.
Designed with a methodology that centers lived experiences beyond storytelling, the conference provides full scholarships to LGBTIQA+ displaced individuals, ensuring their participation shapes the discussions and outcomes. Combining presentations and stakeholder engagements, it promotes action-oriented results within a trauma-informed framework.
Building on the success of previous conferences, the 2025 Queer Displacements Conference will focus on the Asia-Pacific region, where the intersection of forced displacement and criminalisation of LGBTIQA+ identities presents significant challenges. Many countries in the region host large refugee populations while criminalising LGBTIQA+ identities, making safe identification and refugee status determination extremely difficult. The conference will explore innovative solutions through leadership, advocacy, and regional collaboration.
Who should attend
The Queer Displacements Conference is more than just a conference—it’s a space for voices to be heard, alliances to be built, and change to be made.
Everyone is invited!
All prices are GST exclusive and in AUD. Registration is for 2 conference days, in-person attendance. One-day registrations are not offered. Online attendance may only be possible for selected sessions.
Become our sponsor!
By sponsoring the Queer Displacements Conference, your organisation will connect with a unique network of migration and refugee leaders, policymakers, and grassroots organisations, while demonstrating your commitment to inclusion, equality, and justice. Build your visibility, strengthen your corporate social responsibility, and engage directly with marginalised communities to foster meaningful partnerships and solutions.
Final call: suggest a keynote
We are looking for LGBTIQA+ refugees and migrants who are actively working on LGBTIQA+ displacement issues in the Asia-Pacific to deliver keynote presentations. If you have lived experience of displacement and are engaged in advocacy, research, or grassroots work, we invite you to apply.
We also invite LGBTIQA+ organisations from the Asia Pacific region with demonstrated experience of working with LGBTIQA+ displaced people and refugee-led organisations from the Asia Pacific region with demonstrated experience of working with LGBTIQA+ displaced people to apply.
Apply to present as a keynote by February 29!
Volunteer with us
We are looking for volunteers to support various tasks before, during, and after the conference.
Scholarships
We support LGBTIQA+ forcibly displaced people living in Australia and the Asia Pacific region to attend the 2025 Queer Displacements Conference.
Scholarships applications have now closed. Outcomes are to be announced in early / mid February.
Watch keynotes from 2023
Watch selected presentations from the 2023 Queer Displacements Conference.
Focus on Afghanistan: Artemis Akbary
Focus on Latin America: Baby Salcedo
Global challenges: Kimahli Powell
Queer displacement in Asia: Ryan Figueiredo
Queer Categories and Colonial Legacies: Prof. Churnjeet Mahn
Writing from and about lived experience: Danny Ramadan
Explore past conferences
2023 Queer Displacements Conference
2023 Conference Booklet
2023 Queer Displacements Conference
2023 Conference Report
2019 Queer Displacements Conference
2019 Conference Booklet
2019 Queer Displacements Conference
2019 Conference Report