Rainbow Futures WA

Get to know Nesh our Community Organiser and get to learn a little bit more about some incredible events that you can attend to amplify First Nations LGBTIQA+ community members this Pride Month! For more information about registering for events please check out our Linktree! ❤️💛🖤

We had a lovely afternoon at the City of Vincent Rainbow Picnic!

Our second First Nations LGBTIQA+SB & Networking Yarn is taking place this Sunday! Open to all LGBTIQA+ First Nations community members and supporters/allies - this space is for cross-community sharing, learning and creating reciprocal respectful relationships. This session we will be unpacking one of the principles from the Walkern Katatdjin Roadmap - Intersectionality and discussing how power/privileges can impact how communities engage with each other. Registrations are open for this session and for the next two upcoming sessions so register now! https://lnkd.in/dWEFmUVz

Kimberley Blak Pride, kicking off WA Pride month with a bang! 💥 We were thrilled to visit Yawuru Country on the weekend for the 2025 Extravaganza. This was a true celebration of diversity, inclusion, and community - everyone was welcome and free to bring their whole self. Congratulations to the organisers for creating this beautiful space. 🖤💛❤️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️

As the sitting year comes to an end, Rainbow Futures WA urges the Government to deliver on its long-awaited promise to modernise WA’s surrogacy laws this year. This reform has been through Parliament before. Over the years, it has been reviewed and refined. The community is united and the work is done. There are no excuses to stall again. LGBTIQA+ people build loving families, and our laws should recognise that. Children deserve legal certainty from birth. Surrogates deserve respect and safeguards. Parents deserve a safe local pathway. This bill delivers care and clarity. It mandates screening, counselling and legal advice. It requires informed consent. It recognises LGBTIQA+ parents and enables legal parentage at birth. It brings WA into line with the rest of the country and reduces the risks of overseas arrangements. WA has the chance to lead with heart and with justice. Our laws must reflect our community.

Massive congratulations to Pride WA and Team Perth for all their hard work in bringing the 2030 Gay Games to Perth! 🎉 This is an incredibly exciting moment for the state and for the LGBTIQA+ community. The Games will be a powerful platform to celebrate inclusion, while showcasing the strength and diversity of our state. We look forward to supporting this milestone and the opportunities it creates to build visibility, connection, and pride. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ OUTinPerth story link in comments.

As part of the WA Government’s LGBTIQA+ Inclusion Strategy consultation process, we worked with Dr Leanda Mason, a Minang Nyungar academic from Edith Cowan University, to produce a report outlining the needs of SBLGBTIQA+ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. The report draws on existing Indigenous-led research, community consultation, and frameworks to provide a practical pathway to safety, visibility, inclusion, and cultural continuity across all areas of public life. The full report is now available via the link in the comments.

✨ WALKERN WIRIN LINE UP ✨ The line up for Boorloo Blak Pride Walkern Wirin (Rainbow Spirits) has just dropped and we feel so privileged to showcase a full First Nations Line up this Pride Season! The point of this event is to show the value in diversity and specifically the need to have Pride spaces/events which are culturally diverse and celebrate First Nations, Black, People of colour, and other culturally and linguistically diverse communities. This event shows that simply having an invite to the table isn’t enough, we need a table that looks and feels like us, where we feel welcomed to show up as our whole selves and are celebrated in all our intersections and identities! This Pride Month change your allyship from being a noun to a verb, show up and stand alongside LGBTIQA+ mob November 20! Buy your tickets now! - https://lnkd.in/gHRWgmka