Written By Dustin Lowrey Last night, Gold Coast Pride Collective presented the return of the World AIDS Day memorial on the Gold Coast. The night centered around an intimate minute of silence to honour those who fought and continue to fight. This event marks the first in what we hope will be many years of recognising this day and working to reduce the stigma and barriers people living with HIV continue to face, as well as delivering meaningful events and engagements like this one to help...

Written By Dustin Lowrey Sunday, October 26th is Intersex Awareness Day, a day to celebrate intersex people and advocate for their right to make informed choices about their own bodies. Intersex people are born with natural variations in their sex characteristics — such as anatomy, chromosomes, hormones, or reproductive organs — that don’t fit typical definitions of male or female. These variations are a normal part of human diversity and occur in an estimated 1.7–2% of the population —...

Written By Dustin Lowrey In a year defined by uncertainty for the Gold Coast’s LGBTQIA+ community, hope came bounding back on three legs. Meet Bonnie , the tenacious French Bulldog who went from rescue pup to community icon, and who recently made history as the unofficial Grand Marshal of the Labrador Pride Walk , a true grassroots revival of queer visibility on the coast. After the cancellation of Gold Coast Pride Fair Day earlier this year, many feared the region’s rainbow celebrations...