The title of this recording is "Tabby Besley - Rainbow Voices of Aotearoa New Zealand". It is described as: Interview with Tabby Besley, from the documentary Rainbow Voices of Aotearoa New Zealand. It was recorded in Rainbow Room, Parliament buildings, Molesworth Street, Wellington on the 15th April 2019. Tabby Besley is presenting.  Their name is spelt correctly but may appear incorrectly spelt later in the document. The duration of the recording is 3 minutes, but this may not reflect the actual length of the proceedings. A list of correctly spelt content keywords and tags can be found at the end of this document. The content in the recording covers the 2010s decade. A brief summary of the recording is: This summary details the essence of an audio recording titled "Rainbow Voices of Aotearoa New Zealand" by Tabby Besley, recorded on April 15, 2019, in the Rainbow Room of Parliament Buildings in Wellington. In the recording, Tabby Besley, representing Inside Out Koʻaro, discusses the initiative's efforts to foster a safer and more inclusive environment for young people of minority sexualities, genders, and sex characteristics in New Zealand. Inside Out, a national charity based in Wellington, has the vision to build a sense of safety and belonging for these individuals in their schools and communities. Despite acknowledging the legislative progress made in New Zealand towards rights for the community, Besley emphasizes that there is still a significant amount of work to be done. Much of the legislative advancements have yet to significantly impact young people's daily lives, and Besley notes that changes in resources and attitudes are critical to ensuring the safety of rainbow youth. Particular projects of Inside Out are highlighted, such as helping schools become more inclusive through providing resources, information, and staff training. Besley mentions "Out on the Shelves," a project aimed at increasing visibility by featuring and displaying literature that reflects the identities of rainbow youth in school and public libraries. Another notable project is the annual SHIFT hui, a four-day gathering that allows young people from across New Zealand to connect with their culture and rainbow identities through workshops and social connections, often creating lifelong friendships. The speaker also underscores the importance of governmental support for the well-being of rainbow youth, who statistically face a higher likelihood of mental health issues and suicide attempts. Besley stresses the necessity for leaders and legislation to express solidarity with these young people. The presence of rainbow MPs in Parliament is celebrated as a vital step towards representing and advocating for the community. However, Besley insists that more support is required, particularly in funding organizations that provide direct assistance to young people who deal with challenges such as homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia. The goal is to enable these individuals to focus on typical life challenges without the additional burden of discrimination. The full transcription of the recording follows.  It includes timestamps every thirty seconds in the format [HH:MM:SS].  The transcription begins:  Kia ora, I'm Tabby Besley, the Managing Director of Inside Out Koʻaro. So Inside Out, we're a national charity based here in Wellington and our vision is to support young people of minority sexualities, genders and sex characteristics to have a sense of safety and belonging in their schools and communities. So we do that through all sorts of different ways and do a lot of work particularly trying to make schools and the education space safer for rainbow young people. I think in New Zealand we're really privileged and really lucky, um, that we have had legislation passed and kind of our community has got the rights that we do have today and we're in [00:00:30] the place that we are. At the same time there is still so so much, um, to do and particularly working with our young people we see that, um, face hand that a lot of this Um, legislative stuff hasn't yet trickled down to make an impact. Um, and that some of those other things, kind of like, like resourcing and attitude changes that are what needs to happen to make our rainbow young people safer. So Inside Out has, um, lots of different projects to support rainbow young people. Uh, so a big part of our work is around supporting schools to be safer for rainbow young people. So that involves putting out, um, resources and information and [00:01:00] staff training to try and make our schools more inclusive. Um, we have a few.. So one is out on the shelves, which is about creating rainbow visibility, um, in school and public libraries and kind of providing, um, rainbow young people with the opportunity to find stories that reflect their identities and create this kind of visibility, um, in our schools by putting up a display or a public library. Um, we also, uh, run a big. Um, youth hui every year called SHIFT, which brings together, um, young people from all around New Zealand for four days to stay on marae, um, [00:01:30] yeah, connect both with our, yeah, culture of being here in Aotearoa and with our rainbow identities, uh, take part in workshops and, um, yeah, ideally kind of learn some new skills and, um, confidence and resilience to take back to their own communities, and most importantly, probably the connections and friendships with other people, and some of those will last, um, a lifetime, which is amazing. I think it's incredibly important, um, that we're supporting our rainbow young people and particularly that our, um, Parliament and Government is, is doing that and setting an example from the kind of top leadership of, um, our society, if you like. [00:02:00] Um, rainbow young people are still having such a hard time in New Zealand. We know that rainbow young people are five times more likely to attempt suicide. Um, they have really significant kind of depressive and anxiety symptoms. A lot of them are having a really hard time at home or at school or, um, even just kind of.. walking out in the world. Um, it's a really hard time to be a rainbow young person still in Aotearoa and there's a long way to go. So it's so important that our, um, leaders and our legislation and our parliament is, um, showing that it's there to support that group [00:02:30] of young people. And I think, um, we've made some really awesome steps towards that through some of the legislation that's passed. Um, it means, makes such a difference to have our rainbow MPs in our parliament that can, um, you know, Say to young people that it's okay to be who you are and that you can still be in these leadership positions, but there is so much more to do, particularly kind of resourcing the organisations in our communities that are giving support, um, to young people, and often it's still kind of that ambulance at the bottom of the cliff, um, when ideally everyone would just be [00:03:00] happy and living who they are and just dealing with normal challenges, not having to deal with homophobia, biphobia and transphobia. Super important. The full transcription of the recording ends. A list of keywords/tags describing the recording follow. These tags contain the correct spellings of names and places which may have been incorrectly spelt earlier in the document. The tags are seperated by a semi-colon: 2010s ; Aotearoa New Zealand ; Iran ; Kira ; Out on the Shelves ; Parliament buildings ; People ; Rainbow Room ; Space ; Stuff ; Tabby Besley ; Wellington ; Youth ; anxiety ; attitude ; belonging ; biphobia ; bottom ; charity ; community ; confidence ; connections ; culture ; difference ; education ; government ; homophobia ; leadership ; legislation ; library ; minority ; normal ; opportunity ; other ; public library ; rainbow ; resilience ; safety ; school ; suicide ; support ; time ; top ; transphobia ; visibility ; walking ; work. The original recording can be heard at this website https://www.pridenz.com/rainbow_voices_of_aotearoa_new_zealand_tabby_besley.html. The master recording is also archived at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, New Zealand.  For more details visit their website https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ecatalogue.1089886. Tabby Besley also features audibly in the following recordings: "NAGS Nelson - KAHA Youth Hui 2009", "Tabby - Q12", "Queer-Straight Alliances - Marriage Equality Conference", "Participant Reaction - Marriage Equality Conference", "Rainbow Pride Community Honours (2015) - Part 1", "NXT:15 - LGBTIQ Youth Leaders Conference", "Beyond Rainbows panel discussion", "Open mic sessions - Queer History in the Making", "Tabby Besley - Queer History in the Making", "Wellington Pride Parade (2016)", "Part 2 - Opening ceremony at Parliament - Wellington Pride Festival 2016", "Beyond Rainbows panel discussion - Shift hui (2016)", "Tabby Besley - Shift hui (2016)", "Leaving a Legacy", "IDAHOBIT 2017", "LBGTI+ education forum", "Launch of the Rainbow Crossing in Wellington", "Rainbow Voices of Aotearoa New Zealand documentary", "National Schools Pride Week", "Hikoi to Out in the City (2021)", "InsideOUT Kōaro -10th birthday", "Elizabeth Kerekere farewell from Parliament", "InsideOUT Kōaro - Navigating the hate", "InsideOUT Kōaro at Out in the City (2024)", "Protect sexual education resources in schools", "Pride Hīkoi speeches (2024)", "Kāpiti Gay PrideNZ 2020 retrospective", "Kāpiti Gay PrideNZ 2023 retrospective" and "Wellington Pride Parade 2025". 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