Queer Indonesia Archive (QIA)

The Queer Indonesia Archive (QIA) is a digital archiving project committed to the collection, preservation and celebration of material reflecting the lives and experiences of queer Indonesia. The project is volunteer run, community focused and non-profit. To go towards website hosting and design consultation.

Apollo Parkways Pre-School

Apollo Parkways Pre-School is a parent-run, community-based service that provides sessional kindergarten programs for both 3 year old and 4 year old groups. Their grant fund will be used to provide access to a Proud Pride Library to their pre-schoolers.

Sam Martin – Sam I Am

Exploring the intersection of one young man’s identities as gay, queer, hard-of-hearing and deaf, Sam Martin’s powerful autobiographical one-man show takes us on a journey of coming out in two worlds during the 2017 marriage equality plebiscite. This grant funding will specifically go towards their Native deaf queer interpreter, as they continue to pursue extra […]

Hudson Road Family Centre

Hudson Road Family Centre (HRFC) is a not-for-profit organisation that caters to the needs of Bunbury and the wider community. They will be using their grant money to start an informal support group for LGBTQIA+ teens, in Bunbury.

Queer Family

Hosting events and creating safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ people and allies in the Northern Rivers to create, connect and build community. Queer Family are using their grant to run a full day IDAHOBIT event at the Mullumbimby Commons.

OUT South West

OUT South West aims to promote community awareness and inclusivity of LGBTIQ+ issues in the South West region of Western Australia. This grant will cover the cost of 12 months of room hire for OUTSW to run a fortnightly trans support group.

GLBT Rights in Ageing

GRAI is a Western Australian community-based group with a mission to create a responsive and inclusive mature age environment that promotes and supports a quality life for older and ageing people of diverse sexualities and gender identities. This $500 grant will go towards running costs of holding their second Barn Dance – the first of […]

James Seow

James Seow has received grant funding to support part of his course fee to Equality Project’s “Be the change: Transformative leadership training” program. The result of this training will enable James to assist LGBTIQ minority groups voluntarily.

Ben MacEllen

Transmansplaining is an original one-man stage show based on the experiences of Ben MacEllen, a self-described “short, balding, bearded, gay, trans man”. Using humour, storytelling and intimate disclosures, he reveals his unique perspective of life as a male trapped in a female body. The grant has been put towards equipment that allows Ben to bring […]

Bendigo Pride Festival

The Bendigo Pride Festival is a community initiated and run event that celebrates, explores and promotes diversity and inclusion within the greater bendigo region and beyond with particular focus on lgbtiqa+ communities and people. Their grant has been put towards the marketing and promotional costs of their 2020 festival.

Rainbow Community House

Rainbow Community House aims to provide a safe space for LGBTIQA+ youth to identify, explore and develop skills, abilities and the knowledge they can draw upon to navigate struggles they may be facing in their lives and relationships. This grant will be used to build awareness of their services with their presence at local LGBTQIA+ […]

TransFolk of Western Australia

TransFolk of WA is a support service for all transgender people and their loved ones in Western Australia. The organisation provides accessible safe spaces where members can expect dynamic peer support. Their small grant has made it possible for them to invest in their own PA system, removing the ongoing financial burden of hiring such […]

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.