True Colours, an LGBTIQ youth support group based in WA’s South West, will no longer receive funding from its governing body – Uniting Care West. The group, which is understood to have received no direct government funding, worked with schools and the wider community to raise awareness of issues LGBTIQ youth are facing and cultivate […]
Channel 9 will be screening ‘True Colours’ this week – a work from two Perth filmmakers tackling the issue of homophobic bullying in Australia. Writer and producer Ben Croker spoke with OUTinPerth earlier this year explaining his goals for the project. The short film is due to be screened as part of a showcase for […]
A team of local filmmakers are taking on the issue of homophobic bullying in their upcoming short film ‘True Colours’. The film is being made by a large team including WA Screen Academy students and starring WAAPA third year acting students. ‘True Colours’ tells the story of 16 year old Parker, who suffers bullying […]
Rainbow flags are flying high at the University of Western Australia this week. A new initiative titled ‘True Colours’ has encouraged students living in the Universities residential colleges to hang rainbow flags to show their support for diversity in sexuality. Through the project rainbow flags are being supplied for free to any student who wants […]
On August 9 the Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC) held a seminar at Penrhos College to further highlight the need to address homophobic bullying in our schools. The event gave the EOC an opportunity to officially launch research collated by Tiffany Jones, which revealed worrying statistics about our bullied rainbow youth. Representatives from Safe-School program […]
