Australian Pride Network in South Yarra, Victoria | Non-governmental organisation (NGO)

Australian Pride Network

Locality: South Yarra, Victoria

Address: PO Box 9136 3141 South Yarra, VIC, Australia

Website: http://australianpridenetwork.com.au

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25.01.2022 Transforming Brisbanes laneways and city streets into imaginative, curious, and engaging spaces, Razzle Dazzle is a vibrant and provocative free public art project taking over CBD streets and spaces from August to November 2020. Image: Gerwyn Davies, Poodle, 2016 (detail) courtesy the Artist and Outdoor Gallery

25.01.2022 PACT Centre for Emerging Artists has announced that Create NSW has advised in its most recent round of funding offers that it will not be renewing the companys multi-year organisational funding from January 2021. #pactcentreforemergingartists Image: Passing by Amrita Hepi and Jahra Wasasala at PACT Centre for Emerging Artists 2016 photo by Carla Zimbler

24.01.2022 Due to the continuing coronavirus situation, the Honour Awards for 2020, including the cocktail reception and gala ceremony, have been cancelled.

24.01.2022 Taking place from 19 April until 5 May, Australia’s premier LGBTQIA+ arts and cultural experience, Midsumma Festival, has revealed the highly anticipated 17-day 2021 program. Image: After Dark photo by Ben Sayer

24.01.2022 The City of Melbourne is on the lookout for young creatives with fresh ideas to take part in the 2021 Signal Young Creatives Lab an opportunity for young artists and creatives to realise their project dreams in collaboration with the dedicated team at SIGNAL. Image: Signal Young Creatives Lab courtesy of City of Melbourne

24.01.2022 Facilitated by the Greater Dandenong City Council, local LGBTIQA+ artists and communities will connect and celebrate through a range of virtual activities as part of Unwrapped this November. #Unwrapped

23.01.2022 Now in its eighth year, the 2020 Queer Screen Film Fest comes to you! Available on more screens than ever, this years Festival goes online and on demand this September. Comprising over 40 feature films, documentaries and shorts 90 percent of the festival can be accessed by LGBTIQ+ communities and allies anywhere in Australia for 11 days from Thursday 17 September 2020. #QSFF20 #QueerScreen Image: Breaking Fast (film still)

22.01.2022 Thorne Harbour Health has announced its support of the Victorian Government’s Change and Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill introduced yesterday as it seeks to protect adults and children from harmful practices that attempt to change or suppress a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

22.01.2022 Marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of CAMP Inc (the Campaign Against Moral Persecution) - Australia’s first political organisation for same-sex oriented men and women, The State Library of New South Wales presents Coming Out in the 70s - on display until 16 May 2021. Image: Coming Out Badges - courtesy of State Library New South Wales

22.01.2022 Sydney based rapper JamarzOnMarz and rising Canberran star Aya Yves are two emerging LGTBQI+ artists selected to join ARIA Award-winning Montaigne on stage for the very first Express Yourself Queer Discovery showcase at The Beresford Upstairs on Saturday 28 November 2020. Image: JamarzOnMarz and Aya Yves (supplied)

21.01.2022 Lifesavers with Pride (LWP) is excited to kick off its Proud Beaches Scholarship for summer 20/21, promoting Surf Life Saving as somewhere that LGBTIQ people can feel welcome, safe and valued.

20.01.2022 Staging Australian Womens Lives: Theatre, Feminism and Socially Engaged Art is a research project that sees the stage is an ideal laboratory for crafting and rehearsing responses to social inequalities. Image: Enlighten (Born in a Taxi & Arts Centre Melbourne, 2018) photo by Sarah Walker

20.01.2022 Season One of the hilarious and sexy new queer-positive comedy series that pokes fun at the divisions that run through the LGBTQIA community, with pride and good humour, Ding Dong I'm Gay is now available to view on YouTube. Image: Rupert Raineri and Tim Spencer star in Ding Dong Im Gay courtesy of Wintergarden Pictures

18.01.2022 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and Facebook Australia have announced the launch of the Mardi Gras Parade Viewing Events Grants program; a new initiative to support hospitality venues, small businesses, and LGBTQI+ artists and performers around Australia. Image: Glenn Hansen, Alex Greenwich, Performer (unknown), Mia Garlick and Albert Kruger outside Stonewall on Oxford Street (supplied)

18.01.2022 What was your favourite LGBTQI+ event? Mardi Gras wants to hear from you!

18.01.2022 aMBUSH Gallery, in partnership with Kambri at ANU, is seeking works from Australian-based visual artists, graphic designers, and digital agencies for their upcoming poster prize and exhibition, The Heros Journey a time capsule exhibition and social experiment in one that explores the turbulent times of 2020. Image: The Heros Journey poster artwork by Mark Chester Harding

17.01.2022 Harry Cooks Fin & Rye & Fireflies is gloriously upbeat LGBTQI+ novel of love, hope and friendship showing that although its not always rainbows and fireflies, lifes too short to be anyone but yourself Image: Fin & Rye & Fireflies courtesy of New South Books

17.01.2022 With opportunities to be involved in both live venue and online events, artists, performers and presenters can share their creativity and innovation with the world when they register for next years Adelaide Fringe. Image: Rouge photo by Shaun Higgins

15.01.2022 Raising awareness of Bi+ specific challenges and dispelling stereotypes, Bi+ organisations across Australia and New Zealand will come together this September for the 2020 Stand Bi Us Conference.

15.01.2022 The Victorian Agency for Health Information has released survey findings outlining the issues that contribute to health inequalities faced by LGBTIQ Victorians. Thorne Harbour Health congratulates the Victorian Government on the release of these findings as a first in the states history, but the community-controlled health organisation hopes the stark findings lead to systemic change and greater support for LGBTIQ Victorians.

15.01.2022 A national conference which champions equality in the LGBTIQ community is expected to draw hundreds of interstate visitors to Port Douglas in February 2022. #TheEqualityProjectAustralia #PDHotSteamy Image: Anzac Park, Port Douglas at Sunset

14.01.2022 Darlinghurst Theatre Company is thrilled to announce that Sydney audiences will finally have the chance to experience late night done right, when Reuben Kaye presents his latest subversive cabaret The Kaye Hole for one night only on Saturday 27 March at 9.30pm. Image: Reuben Kaye (supplied)

14.01.2022 Virtual events and projects that help LGBTIQ Victorians connect to each other and experience pride and belonging are set to be held across the state, with support from the Victorian Government. Image: OUTintheOPEN Carnival Day, Shepparton

14.01.2022 Port Phillip Council has announced it has suspended its 2021 St Kilda Festival as safety and restriction uncertainties continue to surround the COVID-19 pandemic. Image: St Kilda Festival Main Stage photo by Nathan Doran

14.01.2022 A live online forum exploring the resilience of LGBTQ communities and their ability to adapt to the ongoing challenges posed by COVID-19, will be hosted on Thursday 17 September by NSWs leading health organisation for sexuality and gender diverse people, ACON.

14.01.2022 ANZ Australia and Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras have announced that applications are now open for its national LGBTQI+ community grants program.

14.01.2022 While the rest of South Australia continues to pivot its way through the latest COVID ordeal Feast Festival artists and event organisers have been nimble performing a magnificent pirouette as they reschedule remaining events to ensure Pridevember can still be celebrated in a COVID safe way. Image: Self Isolation Song Book photo by Lachlan Young

13.01.2022 Now in its eighth year, the 2020 Queer Screen Film Fest comes to you! Comprising over 40 feature films, documentaries and shorts 90 percent of the festival can be accessed by LGBTIQ+ communities and allies anywhere in Australia this September. The Australian Pride Network takes a look at eight films worth checking out! #QueerScreenFilmFest #QSFF20 Image: Alexandra Grey stars in Gossamer Folds (supplied)

13.01.2022 After years of discrimination, many LGBTQ people are 'terrified' of going into aged care.

12.01.2022 Vulnerable LGBTIQ Victorians who are at risk of homelessness or facing financial hardship will have access to greater support, as the Victorian Government continues assisting all Victorians during the coronavirus pandemic.

12.01.2022 Darwin will be the place to be this weekend (18 20 September) celebrating all things Pride with the first rainbow festival taking place in Australia since the COVID-19 pandemic cancelled events all over the world. Image: Pool Party courtesy of Darwin Pride Festival

11.01.2022 LGBTIQ+ communities and allies across the country can access over 35 feature films, documentaries and shorts as the 8th Queer Screen Film Fest goes online and on demand this September. Image: Jacki Weaver stars in Stage Mother courtesy of Madman Entertainment

11.01.2022 One of the largest and most diverse collections of contemporary Australian art in the world, Artbank the Australian Governments unique visual arts support and access initiative is, in 2020, celebrating its 40th anniversary. Image: Elizabeth Gower, Scatter, 1989. Synthetic polymer paint on canvas (at Artbank Melbourne) photo by Di Snape

10.01.2022 Every year, Transgender Day of Remembrance honours the memory of transgender people who have lost their lives through transphobic violence. We light a candle, we say their names, we honour and remember them.

10.01.2022 Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) is set to throw open its doors for the first time in almost six months with a special series of live performance experiences in reimagined theatres and spaces. Image: Phoebe Armstrong photo by Andy Phillipson

10.01.2022 ACON's digital information and resource platform for trans and gender diverse people, TransHub, has been announced as one of the winners of Australias peak international design awards, the Good Design Awards the highest honour for design and innovation in the country. #transhub

10.01.2022 Each Wednesday, the Australian Pride Network will be revisiting novels from across the world and Australia that have made an impact on the literary landscape. This week it is Sarah Waters Tipping the Velvet. Set in the music halls of the late 19th century, Sarah Waters wonderfully lush, sensuous and bawdy debut novel, Tipping the Velvet, was highly acclaimed and was chosen by The New York Times and The Library Journal as one of the best books of 1998. Image: Tipping the Velvet courtesy of Hachette Australia

10.01.2022 Gavin Roach takes a look at Naughty Noodle Fun Haus' production of Slipstream - currently playing as part of the Melbourne Fringe Digital Program until 22 November 2020. Image: Miss Tree, Glitta Supernova and Neville Williams Boney in Slipstream photo by Lisa Haymes Photographer

09.01.2022 Welcome to Chechnya, screening online as part of MIFF 68, is a bracing documentary. This film is a distressing look at the torture and murder of LGBTQ people in Chechnya and the inspiring work of activists who fight to help them escape. Stuart Richards discusses... Image: Welcome to Chechnya courtesy of MIFF

09.01.2022 The AOC Initiative has launched a scholarship competition designed to provide financial assistance and industry support to six exceptionally talented theatre performers based in Australia that identify as Bla(c)k, Indigenous or as People of Colour (POC). Image: Artists of Colour Initiative Panelists (supplied)

09.01.2022 ACON and Waverley Council have announced that Urban Art Projects (UAP) will be commissioned to create the Bondi Memorial to victims of LGBTQ hate crimes in Marks Park, Tamarama. Image: Rise (concept visualisation) courtesy of Urban Art Projects (UAP)

08.01.2022 Gasworks Arts Park in partnership with Midsumma Festival are seeking applications for its annual Queer Playwriting Award initiative - an exciting professional development program for playwrights whose work deals with queer themes. Image: New Wave by Margot Morales Tanjutco, QPAS 2020 photo by Suzanne Balding

07.01.2022 The 35th annual Woodford Folk Festival has been cancelled, with organisers confirming the popular cultural event will not go ahead this year. Image: Hilltop Sunrise Ceremony courtesy of Woodford Folk Festival

07.01.2022 Embracing the vibrancy, colour and fun of the festival, Adelaide Fringe has unveiled the official 2021 Poster Design, kicking off the start of celebrations for the season. Image: Adelaide Fringe Director and CEO Heather Croall and Polina Tsymbal photo by Rebekah Ryan

06.01.2022 A range of LGBTQI+ community projects across Australia will receive grants of up to $10,000 each as part of the third annual ANZ Australia and Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Community Grants program. Image: Khanh Ong and Tanzer (supplied)

04.01.2022 Brisbane is one step closer to hosting the 2026 Gay Games, as the Federation of Gay Games reveals the eight shortlisted cities vying to host the twelfth iteration of this international event. Image: Brisbane Sign, South Bank Parklands, Brisbane

04.01.2022 Mapping Melbourne an annual artistic exploration of Asian Australian identity presented by MAV is set to return on Thursday 3 December 2020 with an inspiring two-month program of free virtual events and premieres of creative works by talented, self-determined artists. Image: Jonathan Homsey photo by Shannon May Powell

03.01.2022 The closing event of its annual LGBTIQ+ Queer Arts and Cultural Festival, Feast Festival's Picnic in the Park, scheduled for Sunday 29 November, has been cancelled due to Government restrictions implemented since the recent COVID-19 cluster outbreak in South Australia. Image: Drag Fashion Show at Feast Festival’s Picnic in the Park photo by Photo Jo

03.01.2022 Lacquer up your lederhosen international superstar, sex symbol, accordionist and Berlin boy-wonder, Hans, has been confirmed to headline the 2021 Port Douglas Hot & Steamy Festival this summer, bringing his trademark accordion and sequinned tush to the tropics. Image: Hans (supplied)

02.01.2022 Featuring the work of over 100 Artists, who have contributed their talent to celebrate the breadth, depth and diversity of Australias performing arts industry, Return is an original song written to boost the spirits of the industry whilst raising funds for the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and entertainment benevolent funds across Australia.

02.01.2022 Thanks to Madman Entertainment, the Australian Pride Network has five in-cinema double-passes to Supernova to giveaway. TO WIN: Email your name and address with Supernova in the Subject Line to: [email protected] by 9.00am Tuesday 6 April 2021 only the winners will be contacted! Supernova screens nationally from Thursday 15 April 2021. ... Image: Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth star in Supernova courtesy of Madman Entertainment

02.01.2022 Producers John Frost and Suzanne Jones along with Foundation Theatres and The Star have announced that the exhilarating Tony Award-winning hit musical Pippin will reopen the Sydney Lyric TheatreTheatre at The Star for an exclusive season from 24 November 2020. - Pippin Australia Image: Sasha Allen as Leading Player (centre) and the cast of the national tour of Pippin photo by Terry Shapiro

02.01.2022 A smouldering story of love, denial, discovery and healing by one of the most vital playwrights of the twentieth century, 16th Street Actors Studio presents Lanford Wilson’s landmark play Burn This at fortyfivedownstairs from 26 January 2021. Image: Mark Diaco, Jessica Clarke, Jacob Collins Levy and Dushan Phillips to feature in Burn This (supplied)

02.01.2022 It's time to celebrate Brisbane Pride Fair Day - If you are heading to New Farm Park today - have a great time supporting your community - and remember to play COVID safe! For more information and event lineup, visit: https://brisbanepride.org.au/fair-day/ for details.

01.01.2022 A new awareness campaign from NSW’s leading HIV and sexuality and gender diverse health organisation, ACON - Take Me highlights the different ways in which gay and bisexual men can use the HIV prevention drug PrEP to protect themselves and their partners from HIV.

01.01.2022 Griffin Theatre Company has announced the productions forming its 2021 Season, the first to be programmed by Declan Greene, who began his tenure as Artistic Director earlier this year. Image: (top l-r) Elias Jamieson Brown photo by Brett Boardman; Dogged by Brett Boardman; Emily Havea and Heather Mitchell photo by Brett Boardman; and Kirsty Marillier photo by Brett Boardman / (bottom l-r) Merlynn Tong photo by David Kelly; Oliver Twist photo by Brett Boardman; Debra Oswald photo by Brett Boardman; and Sheridan Harbridge photo by Brett Boardman

01.01.2022 The Victorian Pride Centre has announced it is to be supported by the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation with a grant for vital infrastructure to be installed at Australia’s first purpose built LGBTIQ+ Centre. Image: Stuart Kollmorgen, Deputy Chair of the Victorian Pride Centre, and Karyn Bosomworth, Program Manager Healthy & Resilient Communities at the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation photo by Serge Thomann

01.01.2022 ChillOut Festival is bringing the magic back and transforming Victoria’s Central Highlands into Queer Country in one of Australia’s largest and much-loved LGBTIQA+ event from 27 February to 8 March 2021. Image: ChillOut Festival Participants (supplied)