Our Successful Launch Of The Housing And Homelessness Inclusivity Guide

The online launch of the LGBTIQ guide for housing and homelessness services on 30 October was very successful. PFA co-hosted the launch with the National LGBTI Health Alliance, attended by 90 people from all over Australia. After a heartfelt welcome to country by Yvonne Weldon, the Honourable Warren Entsch MP launched the guide, and co-author […]

Federal Parliamentary Inquiry Into Homelessness 2020

Associate Professor Ruth McNair AM, PhD, MBBS, FRACGP in partnership with Dr Cal Andrews, PhD, have submitted a Federal Parliamentary Inquiry into Homelessness based on the evidence drawn from their ongoing research into links between the LGBTQIA+ community and homelessness. Read the submission here.

LGBT homelessness project report launch

The final report was the culmination of 18 months’ research at the University of Melbourne and Swinburne University of Technology. It was officially launched with 80 people present at Allens law firm, who kindly hosted the event. This study has produced important new evidence about the pathways to homelessness that are unique to LGBTQ Australians. […]

LGBTI Homelessness project update

The GALFA LGBTI homelessness project has completed the homelessness services interviews and secondary data analysis of Journeys Home, and is now in the midst of interviews with LGBTI people who have experienced homelessness. We have received a $20,000 grant from Community Sector Banking to develop and pilot a trans model of care within homelessness services. […]

Acknowledgement of Country

Pride Foundation Australia pays respect to the traditional custodians of the land and sea on which we live, work and play, we pay our respects to Elders past and present, acknowledging that sovereignty was never ceded.

Pride Foundation Australia commits through the resources we have available to us, to work with, for, and alongside Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and South Sea Islander LGBTIQ+ Sistergirl and Brotherboy peoples and communities to embed a self-determined future.

We further commit the contribution of a significant proportion of grant funding received to Aboriginal Torres Strait  South Sea Islander LGBTIQ+ Sistergirl and Brotherboy led initiatives to improve social outcomes.

Australia was, and always will be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land.