Kasia Vickery

Kasia Vickery is an emerging LGBTQIA+ identifying writer, director and performer from Sydney. Right now, Kasia is working towards the world premiere of Taz vs The Pleb, an Independent theatre show, programmed at Flight Path theatre as part of Sydney Fringe Festival, featuring a diverse ensemble of fantastic emerging LGBTQIA+ performers and designers. Taz vs […]

Youth Off The Streets

Youth Off The Streets is a leading Australian youth services organisation. We work with young people, their families and communities to create safety, offer support and provide pathways to a positive future. Their Step Up program works with 16-18 year olds who have experienced childhood trauma and disadvantage. A number of young people who engage […]

Outloud

Outloud is a multi-arts company that exists to enrich and empower the young people and wider community of Bankstown Canterbury area. Our projects have taken the forms of rap and music production and performance, theatre, performance and written poetry, magazines and publishing, dance, multimedia, interview recording, bus tours, indigenous dance and language and oral histories. […]

SMBI Listeners Inc.

SMBI Listeners Inc. is a truly community-driven and focused approach to improving the wellbeing of children and families on the picturesque Southern Moreton Bay Islands. An offshore 5 island community isolated from mainland Australia by much more than the waters of Moreton Bay. SMBI Listeners Inc. aim to hold Community Conversations with members of their […]

Naomi Ball

With a love for both fiction and documentary, Naomi Ball has been working as a director, producer and assistant director on short films, web series and content. Influenced by her experience as a queer woman and a passion for social and environmental justice, she seeks out stories that amplify diverse voices and change minds through […]

Welcome Change Media

Welcome Change Media is a self-funded startup podcast company that makes inclusive, diverse, empowering content. They are currently in the set up phase of the business and their grant will support projects they have planned to kick off their first year.

The Shed

The Shed are a Melbourne based support group for trans masculine people and their allies. They are the only free binder provider in Australia with no waiting list, and the awarded grant will support those participants who are unable to donate to cover the cost of postage, and to support people who have difficult-to-fit sizing […]

Kununurra Pride Weekend

Kununurra Pride Weekend is an annual pride event in August in the remote town of Kununurra in Western Australia. This event provides strong support particularly for young Aboriginal people who are at such high risk of suicide and live in such gender conforming communities. Pride Foundation Australia has awarded the event $500 that will cover […]

Chopt Logic

Chopt Logic is a performance ensemble specialising in creating visually stunning physical theatre. Our Blood Runs in the Street is Chopt Logic’s new verbatim physical theatre production inspired by Bondi’s gay and transgender hate crimes of the late 20th century, which has been invited to Brisbane for a two-week season at Metro Arts. The awarded […]

Casey Rainbow Community

Casey Rainbow Community is a group for LGBTQIA+ people in the City of Casey and surrounds, working to improve inclusion and connections within the community. This grant provided financial support for their recent Rainbow Community Picnic event at Midsumma Festival. The event aimed to raise the visibility of BIPOC and transgender community in City of […]

Captivate The Future

Captivate the Future is a public speaking competition that aims to empower students to share their story and change their future. The Pride Foundation grant will provide prize money to establish the “Hannah Ivy Pride Foundation Prize,” a public speaking competition to honour the memory of Hannah Ivy, a transgender advocate who passed away in […]

A Modern Gay’s Guide

A Modern Gay’s Guide is Australia & New Zealand’s only LGBTIQ+ youth/young adult focused pop-culture, news and events online publication. A Modern Gay’s Guide will be using their grant to renew their domains and SSL security to ensure users on the site are secure and safe, and remaining funds will go towards producing a further […]

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.