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Supporting LGBTIQ+ individuals and communities in WA for over 40 years
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Living Proud has provided support to LGBTIQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer and other sexuality, gender, and bodily diverse) people and communities in WA for over 40 years. We are the longest running organisation of our kind in the Southern Hemisphere.
We provide peer-support, information and resources.
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Web and App Accessibility
This workshop will provide a basic overview of accessibility concepts and how they apply to different organisational roles.
Registration is essential. Please register at
events.eventzilla.net/e/web--app-accessiblity--cfaa-2138584676.
Required training documents will be emailed to participants prior to the session, Zoom details can be found below.
Join Zoom Meeting
us02web.zoom.us/j/86891892265?pwd=OTFwM291TCt5TFNSeHJDVDd1SkY1UT09
Meeting ID: 868 9189 2265
Passcode: 947307
This is an online training for members of the LGBTIQ+ community organised by Living Proud as part of the Queer & Accessible Project.
Join us for free sessions with some of WAβs best disability training providers!
starting in June and continuing through to September, with the intention of encouraging LGBTIQ+ groups to consider accessibility when planning events for PrideFEST 2022.
Up first is the Youth Disability Advocacy Network with Engaging With Disability & Creating Inclusive Spaces!
Find the registration in the link below!
linktr.ee/LivingProud
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LGBTQ Domestic Violence Awarenes Foundation
www.dvafoundation.org
Helping end domestic and family violence and intimate partner abuse (DFV) within LGBTQ communities, by increasing visibility through an annual awareness campaign.
Today is Pansexual and Panromantic Awareness and Visibility Day! It is a day to celebrate and raise awareness for pansexual or panromantic members in our community!
To find out more go to www.papyrus-uk.org/pan-visibility-day/
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#panromantic #pansexual #lgbtqia
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To be agender means to not identify as any particular gender. Agender is also called genderblank , genderfree, genderless, gendervoid, non-gendered, ungendered, or null gender.
We are all individuals of our own identities and should acknowledge, educate and celebrate one another.
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Today is International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia, celebrated globally, today marks the day that homosexuality was removed from the Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems.
Today is a day to celebrate LGBTQIA+ people everywhere and raise awareness for the work that is still to be done.
To find out more go to www.idahobit.org.au/
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Itβs National Volunteer Week! Today commences a week of recognition and celebration of the benefits volunteering brings to individuals and the community. The theme this year is Better Together and Living Proud would like to take this opportunity to thank our volunteers for making it such.
Together, the staff and volunteers at Living Proud work to promote the wellbeing of LGBTIQ+ people in Western Australia.
Together, the volunteer QLife Peer Supporters provide support and referral to the LGBTIQ+ community across Australia.
If you are interested in making life Better Together by volunteering with Living Proud, check out www.livingproud.org.au/support-us/volunteer/ for details.
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For National Volunteer Week (16-22 May 2022), GRAI and Living Proud will be hosting a Better Together: LGBTIQA+ Volunteering event on Saturday 21st May 10am - 12.30pm Southcare Hall, 19 Pether Rd, Manning
Join in some easy volunteering activities and meet like-minded others. Guest speakers will talk about volunteering and the options available
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Please register your attendance here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/better-together-lgbti-volunteering-ideas-tickets-306199088717
Happy Lesbian Visibility Day! Today kicks off the beginning of Lesbian Visibility Week, a week focused on celebrating, raising awareness, and showing solidarity with lesbian women and non-binary people in our community.
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#LesbianVisabilityDay #Lesbian #lgbtqia
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