Reflections on the Queer Displacements conference 2025

Earlier this month, Board Chair Ruth McNair AM represented Pride Foundation Australia (PFA) at the 2025 Queer Displacements conference. This was the third Queer Displacements conference, coordinated by the Forcibly Displaced People Network, held in Melbourne. This followed the first in Canberra in 2019 and second in Sydney during World Pride in 2023. This is […]

Multicultural Youth SA Receive Grant Funding for “Rainbow Refuge: Telehealth Mental Health Support”

Pride Foundation Australia are proud to announce Multicultural Youth South Australia as the recipients of the first large grant round towards LGBTQIA+ Forcibly Displaced People Living in Australia for 2025. The youth-focused organisation has received $20,000 in grant funding towards their project “Rainbow Refuge: Expanding Access to Inclusive Mental Health Support”. Multicultural Youth South Australia […]

The Health & Wellbeing of LGBTQIA+ People in Rural Australia – A new report

Pride Foundation Australia is pleased to announce the publication of a new report outlining the impacts on the health and wellbeing of LGBTQIA+ Australians living in regional and rural parts of Australian. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans & gender diverse, intersex, queer and asexual (LGBTIQA+) people are often challenged by significant levels of minority stress, structural […]

A New Car for Queer Refugee Couple Marya and Carmen

Mayra and Carmen are the extremely proud owners of their first car thanks to advocacy from their CRISP sponsorship group in the Northern Rivers area of NSW. The women arrived as sponsored refugees from Venezuela in 2023, to find a life where they could openly live as a couple. They have committed to repaying some […]

New article published on the mental health of queer refugees and people seeking asylum

We’d like to congratulate a colleague of Pride Foundation Australia, Satrio Nindyo Istiko, who has been published alongside Andrian Liem Edwin Adrianta Surijah, and Ignacio Correa-Velez with the article “Understanding key priority areas of mental health among queer asylum seekers and refugees in Australia through the lens of structural violence: A modified Delphi method study”. […]

PFA Attends Better Together Conference – June 2024, Geelong

Pride Foundation Australia was very pleased to be involved at the Better Together conference in June in Geelong. We sponsored $15,000 for over 20 refugees to attend the conference, including their accommodation and transport from as far afield as Mackay in Queensland. We were pleased to meet several people at our stall throughout the conference, […]

Our new public LGBTQIA+ Refugee Sponsorship Sub-Fund through GiveNow

For the past two years, Pride Foundation Australia has been steadily expanding its support in the sponsorship and hands-on support of LGBTQIA+ refugees and people seeking asylum in Australia. In 2021, the Refugee Sponsorship Sub-Fund was established in 2021 by PFA patron Dennis Altman and PFA chair Ruth McNair. The Sub-Fund seeks to raise money […]

Our Melbourne fundraiser event for LGBTQIA+ Refugees & Asylum Seekers

On Tuesday evening 21/7/23, the Melbourne offices of Gilbert & Tobin opened its doors and welcomed attendees to Pride Foundation Australia’s latest fundraiser towards LGBTQIA+ refugees and people seeking asylum in Australia. The aim of the event was both to raise awareness of PFA’s Rainbow Refugee sub-fund and encourage donations from attendees. The event showcased […]

THREE for All Foundation awarded PFA & Sidney Myer Fund joint grant round for 2022

Please join us in congratulating the recipient of our most recent PFA & Sidney Myer Fund partner grant for 2022: THREE for All Foundation. THREE for All Foundation works alongside genuine and passionate community organisations around the world to address complex challenges that the communities themselves have identified. Many Coloured Sky is THREE for All […]

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 Islander and 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.