In 2017, Democracy in Colour campaigned within our communities to vote “yes” on the Marriage Equality plebescite.

We organised with religious and cultural leaders to have conversations in their own communities on the importance of LGBTQ+ rights. We trained LGBTQ+ people of colour to campaign against the dominate media narrative that inaccurately painted our cultures as “incompatible” with LGBTQ+ rights.

As a result, the diverse and complex experiences of LGBTQ+ people of colour were amplified.