This year is a big one for Goulburn Valley Pride. Recently announced as finalists in the Victoria Pride Awards for Preventing Social Isolation, the organisation is also celebrating a major milestone — 20 years of supporting and uplifting the LGBTQIA+ community of the Goulburn Valley.
Established in 2005, GV Pride began with small coffee meet-ups and committee gatherings around kitchen tables. Today, it offers a broad range of workshops, events, wellbeing initiatives, advocacy programs and services for people of all ages and intersections. Highlights include the successful annual OUTintheOPEN festival, the opening of the region’s shopfront Pride Hub, and, in recent years, the inaugural Pride Ball.
This success is the result of passion, commitment, unwavering energy and deep care for the Greater Goulburn Valley’s LGBTIQA+ communities — the driving forces behind one of Victoria’s leading regional, not-for-profit, peer-led advocacy and social support organisations.
