10 Years in Full Colour

Everyone deserves to feel safe and respected at school, at work and in their communities, regardless of who they love or how they identify. But LGBTIQA+ people in Australia continue to be confronted with stigma, prejudice and discrimination across multiple areas of their lives. The consequences of this are dire.

LGBTIQA+ Health Australia statistics from 2021 show that more than a quarter of LGBTQA+ teens under the age of 17 and almost half of all trans people between 14 and 25 have attempted suicide.

Many participants in ‘Love in Full Colour’ discussed depression and suicidality – often in the context of experiencing rejection, stigma and discrimination at home, school and/or at work. One participant, Jules, tragically took his own life.

We need a holistic, proactive approach to reforming schools, laws and workplaces to create a world where LGBTIQA+ youth are safe, respected, equal and included.

’10 Years in Full Colour’ aims to eliminate LGBTIQA+ discrimination and end the disproportionate rates of LGBTIQA+ youth suicide.

Our goal is to make schools and workplaces consistently safe, respectful, inclusive spaces, and to empower LGBTIQA+ youth. We see schools, in particular, as the starting point for attitudinal change. Additionally, we aim to reform key areas of law to create greater equality for LGBTIQA+ people.

• Eliminate discrimination of LGBTIQA+ people, with a focus on schools, workplaces and laws
• Reduce rates of suicidality amongst LGBTIQA+ young people in Australia
• Introduce mandatory, evidence-based inclusion/anti-bullying programs in all Australian schools
• Increase representation of LGBTIQA+ content in Australian curriculum
• Succeed in embedding the film as a teaching resource in universities, high schools, teacher/principal PD, and in WorkSafe-accredited OHS training
• Build public support to ensure the Vic Government succeeds in amending the Equal Opportunity Act, which would ban religious schools from discriminating against students/staff on the basis of their sexuality or gender identity
• Extend these protections to LGBTIQA+ people in the rest of the country by campaigning for the abandonment of the Federal Government’s Religious Discrimination Bill
• Introduce a nation-wide ban on gay conversion ‘therapies’, following the lead of the Vic Government

No project partners as yet. See above answer for potential project partners to be approached.

For general audiences, the hope is that it builds empathy, understanding and respect for LGBTIQA+ people. Ideally, that attitudinal shift will find tangible expression through behaviour such as through getting involved in one of the Full Colour project campaigns on educational, industrial and law reform (for which there will be a series of low and high- barrier asks, as part of the social impact strategy).

For young people struggling with gender identity and/or sexuality, the goal is that the film helps them survive the difficulties of adolescence by trusting that there is a different life on the other side of school.

For teachers, principals and employers, the hope is that the film will move them to call out homophobic/transphobic bullying more readily, and to proactively ensure their spaces are safe and inclusive.

For politicians and lawmakers, the goal is that they will take action to support reforming the law in areas that continue to discriminate against LGBTIQA+ people.