LGBTIQA+
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Wear it purple with craftivism
Dhelkaya Health is calling on community members to grab their knitting needles and crochet hooks to help create a powerful display for Wear It Purple Day 2025. This national day celebrates safe, supportive and inclusive spaces for young LGBTIQA+ people, and this year Dhelkaya Health plans to yarn bomb four trees across the region in…
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Inspirational speaker
Woodend’s Victoria Hotel will be the venue for another inspirational guest speaker for the first Birds of a Feather event for 2024.
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IDAHOBIT celebrations
A number of events are being held across the Macedon Ranges to mark International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) next week. A flag-raising ceremony will be held at the Kyneton Mechanics Institute on Tuesday May 17 from 12pm featuring guest speakers from Macedon Ranges Shire Council, Sunbury and Cobaw Community Health and…
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Celebration of gender diversity
This Thursday is Trans Day of Visibility, an annual celebration of the achievements of the transgender, gender diverse and non-binary community and a day for the whole community to show their support as allies and acknowledge the experiences of transgender people and the challenges they face. Sunbury and Cobaw Community Health, which runs a number…
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Lunch, chat and chill
A panel of diverse guests will discuss all manner of topics at next week’s Birds of a Feather lunch in Kyneton. ChillOut Festival’s president Matt Clarke, army veteran Yvonne Sillett, Pride Foundation Australia’s board member Ian Gould and Bendigo’s drag icon Polly Filla will chat about their work, their connection to the community and about…
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Volunteers bring rainbow love
Do you love dogs and people and all things rainbow? The organisers of Puppy Pride 2022 are looking for a team of volunteers for this inaugural event to celebrate the LGBTIQA+ community and their pooches with a day out at the Kyneton Botanical Gardens. As part of the Macedon Ranges Autumn Festival, which runs from…
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Regional pride on show
An evening celebrating fashion, self-expression and affirmation is planned for the Macedon Ranges this week. ‘Queers on the Catwalk’ will celebrate rural and regional pride with a focus on LGBTIQA+ identity expression through clothing and accessories. After the success of the first Queers on the Catwalk in October 2019, this year’s event will bring together…
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Building rainbow bridges
An exhibition opened last week in Kyneton that brings together the voices of both young lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people and those older members of the LGBTIQA+ community in a way not seen before in the Macedon Ranges. Intergenerational art project Rainbow Bridges, which was funded by the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund,…