Newcastle Pride named City of Newcastle Community Group of the Year for 2020

Newcastle Pride named City of Newcastle Community Group of the Year for 2020

Newcastle Pride was named City of Newcastle Community Group of the Year for 2020 at the annual City of Newcastle Australia Day awards.

The prestigious award comes after two successful Newcastle Pride Festivals held in August of 2018 and 2019 as well as several other successful community events held for the LGBTQIA+ and the wider Hunter region.

The most recent community event being A Queer Bushfire Fundraiser held on Saturday 25 January 2020 in which Newcastle Pride partnered with Timber Productions to raise over $7,000 for local wildlife charities.

President of Newcastle Pride, Lee-Anne McDougall thanked the City of Newcastle for the nomination and acknowledged that there is still much to do in the community, but that this is a great step in the right direction.

“I would like to sincerely thank the City of Newcastle and the anonymous community members who submitted the nomination,” she said.

“We still have a lot of work to do but It gives us hope that change is happening as we keep striving for equality, acceptance, inclusion, to be no longer invisible, and for the freedom to love whoever we choose to love without judgement, as everyone deserves.”

Newcastle Pride’s annual Pride Festival is a series of fabulous out n proud events including LGBTQIA+ arts and culture, parties and their signature Fair Day at Foreshore Park.

“All events are open to the wider community with events like Fair Day bringing together LGBTQIA+ people and their families while providing a space to belong alongside the mainstream community. The festival is a chance for the wider community to join in harmony and learn more about queer life and culture,” she said.

With the success of the 2018 and 2019 festivals, in 2020 Newcastle Pride is expanding the festival to be held over 3 weeks from 14 – 30 August 2020.

“The festival will also include events to be held in Lake Macquarie and Maitland, allowing Newcastle Pride to reach out to the more isolated regional communities that currently have no established LGBTQIA+ events or places to meet,” Lee-Anne said.

Newcastle Pride is also launching the Newcastle Pride Youth Pride Tribe social group, which will provide the queer youth of the region with a safe social space, support, workshops and events.

Newcastle Pride also plans to host a queer youth prom event in the 2020 festival program. Other LGBTQIA+ and culturally diverse groups are also invited to stage their own event in the 2020 program, with expressions of interest opening shortly.

Newcastle Pride President Lee-Anne McDougall acknowledges the team of talented and passionate people who were part of the 2019 Newcastle Pride committee which includes Ivan Skaines (Vice President), Ed Abbott, Jay Bellamy, Hellen Richards, Sally Franco, Debbie Hanson and Dr Geoff MacFarlane.

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Newcastle Pride

Newcastle Pride is an inclusive, vibrant and fun not-for-profit LGBTIQ community based organisation established in 2018. Newcastle Pride celebrates sexuality and gender diversity in Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and the Hunter Region within and outside our community. We work collaboratively to foster LGBTIQ Pride. We are fully inclusive. We collaborate with others within our community and with the wider community. Our vision is to empower all LGBTIQ people to find their voice and be proud. We aspire to a safer, more inclusive future.

The Newcastle Pride Festival is an exciting, glamorous and “out n’ proud” series of events that aims to showcase to locals and visitors that Newcastle is a city of diversity, culture and beauty. We plan to grow the Festival into an annual event and bring our community together in unity to leave a legacy for the LGBTIQ youth fostering a vibrant and supportive future community

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