In July 2025, Pride Foundation Australia advertised our second annual large grant round of the year of $20,000 dedicated to funding projects that improve support for LGBTQIA+ Forcibly Displaced People (LFDP) seeking asylum in Australia.
We are pleased to announce this large grant has been awarded to Language Justice Network for the ‘Language Justice Network Certification Capacity Building Program’.
The Language Justice Network (LJN) is dedicated to creating safe and affirming language services for LGBTQIA+ Forcibly Displaced People. Founded and led by queer forcibly displaced interpreters, LJN works to break down language barriers and challenge systems that exclude these communities. LJN provide language services, trainings, workshops and organisational consultation. Their work is guided by language justice, decolonial practices, and trauma-informed care. By centring lived experience and community leadership, they aim to build long-term pathways for bilingual LGBTQIA+ people into the language services sector, while advocating for sector-wide change to ensure dignity, equity, and representation for all.
LGBTQIA+ Forcibly Displaced People face systemic barriers to safe service access—particularly when language support is required. Interpreters are often untrained in working with non-English speaking LGBTQIA+ clients, leading to unsafe, exclusionary experiences across health, legal, and social services. At the same time, bilingual LFDP face high financial barriers to entering the interpreting profession and a lack of culturally relevant, trauma-informed support.
This project supports bilingual LGBTQIA+ forcibly displaced people (LFDP) to become certified interpreters and strengthens the sector’s ability to offer culturally safe, trauma-informed language services. It is grounded in lived experience and establishes a sustainable pipeline of LFDP-affirming interpreters and a replicable, community-led model.
We want to congratulate Language Justice Network on their successful application, and look forward to seeing the impact created through the development and implementation of this program.
