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Pride Month was established in the US during the late 1960s, stemming from the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City.<\/p>\n
Tiny Pride CEO, Ange Elson, has been advocating for Ballarat’s queer community since moving to the region a decade ago and said the program is an important display of allyship from the municipality.<\/p>\n
“The City’s really put their money where their mouth is in terms of their inclusion plan,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Right from the top with the mayor down to the council<\/p>\n
officers, everybody’s making a massive effort to celebrate us and start nailing that inclusion conversation.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got a few events.<\/p>\n
The ones I’m most excited about are our partnership with Are-Able with a pride lunch. We’re also covering seniors and having those conversations about their needs and wants. We’ve also got the Tiny Pride breakfast.”<\/p>\n
The local program has been created alongside the municipality’s LGBTIQA+ advisory committee.<\/p>\n
It will be publicly launched at 10am on Saturday 1 June in the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute’s Humffray Room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
THE City of Ballarat has big plans for the region’s LGBTIQA+ community next month. With June marking Pride Month, the municipality will have a calendar of events to mark the occasion, the program for which was revealed on Wednesday morning. The initiative will mark the municipality’s first time acknowledging and celebrating Pride Month, which mayor […]<\/p>\n