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Champions for LGBTQIA+ Youth

Australia's charity improving the lives of LGBTQIA+ young people.

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Awareness & Visibility

2 in 3 LGBTQIA+ youth still experience abuse for being who they are. Our campaigns start crucial conversations to boost the voice of the next generation.

LGBTQIA+ Education

Creating an Australia free from discrimination is up to us all. Our LGBTQIA+ training, workshops and resources enable others to champion inclusivity, no matter their location.

Life-Affirming Programs

Our preventive model of mental health support tackles social isolation through spaces where LGBTQIA+ youth belong and by empowering the next generation of leaders.

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  • sexuality

  • gender

  • identity

  • school

  • family + friends

  • take action

  • wellbeing

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Australia's LGBTQIA+ youth report physical, verbal assault — but also queer joy

One in 10 LGBTQIA+ youthful people say they have been physically assaulted in the last year, according to a adj landmark study.

A third of those interviewed nationally had experienced physical harm for their identity in their lifetime.

Minus18, a mental health charity for queer youth, released the data as part of their national Queer Youth Now survey.

Almost 3, LGBTQIA+ young people aged between were interviewed across Australia.

Public discourse and debate surrounding Australia's queer community made the numbers unsurprising for project direct Alvi Ahmed.

"It's still really confronting that we found nine in 10 LGBTQ+ young people in our survey had faced bullying, harassment, or violence due to their identity," he told the ABC.

"[The reports of violence] are sadly consistent with previous studies done in this space as well.

"And so the message is still loud and clear that these experiences are still happening.

"Over half of young people [surveyed] had experie

In our surveys when we first started asking young Australians about their sexual orientation in August of , 15% identified LGBTQIA+. 

When we asked again in alternative surveys in , that number grew between 16% and 23%. 

In , it increased to between 25% and 29%.

And when our latest survey asked Gen Zs aged nationally about their sexual orientation in the final weeks of , one in three (32%) said they identified as LGBTQIA+. 

And sure, while scientifically speaking there’s always a margin of error in any survey (meaning the results can be a few percentage points above or below), we can confidently speak that there has been a general uptrend in young Australians identifying as LGBTQIA+ over the past few years.

And that means in Australia that somewhere between a quarter and a third of Gen Zs now verb as LGBTQIA+. 

Yup. That’s a attractive incredible increase.

And our findings about young Australians and their LGBTQIA+ identifications aren’t unique.

They also align with a Gallup survey in the USA in which start one in five (21%) Gen Z youth in America spot as LGBT. It’s wo

We foster partnerships with an extensive range of mental health and community sector services, healthcare providers (including hospitals), early childhood education providers, primary and secondary schools, as well as local government child and family, youth, and aged care services and programs.

At Queerspace, we are devoted to promoting LGBTIQA+ inclusion and celebrating the diversity of gender, age, race, faith, and abilities. Our Carlton location is designed with inclusivity in mind, featuring all-gender bathrooms, ramps, an elevator, and accessible meeting rooms equipped with hearing loops. Additionally, interpreting services can be arranged upon demand at all of our sites.

We are honoured to house some of Victoria&#;s most prominent LGBTIQA+ community advocacy groups, such as Transgender Victoria and Inclusive Rainbow Voices, at our Queerspace headquarters located at Drummond Street, Carlton. With multiple locations spread throughout Victoria, we strive to build Queerspace an accessible and welcoming space for all.

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