LGBTIQA+

Friday 27th August is 'Wear It Purple' Day. 'Wear It Purple' strives to foster supportive, safe, empowering and inclusive environments for rainbow young people. Every day of our year, but this day in particular, we wish to acknowledge the values of inclusivity and acceptance for all individuals. Please find on this page resources to build your awareness of LGBTQI+ information and individuals in our world.

Find out more about 'Wear It Purple' by clicking HERE.

How do I learn more?

Click on the image to try the 'Wear It Purple' Day Official Kahoot.

'Wear It Purple' Suggested LGBTQ Trivia

LGBTQ+ history in Sydney

Case studies on LGBTQ+ famous figures

Living in Alan Turing’s FutureGiven that the twenty-first century has become one giant Turing machine, it is not surprising that the culture remains obsessed with the British mathematician.

20 LGBTQ People Who Changed the WorldRemember our rich history — it goes way back.

500 Queer Scientists Visibility CampaignA visibility campaign to highlight the accomplishments and lives of LGBTQAI+ people working in science, technology, engineering, and math.

Case studies on LGBTQ+ athletes

At least 185 out LGBTQ athletes at Tokyo Olympics, a record by farThere were more out LGBTQ athletes in Tokyo than all the previous Summer Olympics combined. Here’s the list.

Queer Representation in the Media

Queer representation is the portrayal of LGBTQ+ characters within films, TV shows, books, and any other forms of media. Queer representation is also about how these characters are written and whether they do justice to the queer experience or are only written in for the diversity points.

Good representation is an LGBTQ+ character in forms of media that is well researched, well-informed, and their experiences are that of an LGBTQ+ person. These characters are more three dimensional than many characters we see in popular shows and are not put into a box on how they should act or be.

Bad representation is the portrayal of a character that has not been properly researched and is written poorly. These characters are generally created to add more ‘diversity’ to the media and are written like hetero-cis-normative characters with their gender or sexuality changed. Sometimes, the writer/creator can mean well but go about it the wrong way, which results in a poorly created character. Badly represented characters generally fall into well recognised stereotypes that paint queer people as something negative or push the character as a joke for audiences. Writers and directors are, however, slowly moving away from these stereotypes and are listening to the experiences of queer people, in order to create characters that are relatable and are well represented.