AVC Pride

3 min April 12th, 2022
Celebrating & empowering our LGBTQIA+ community

Australian Venue Co proudly supports & celebrates the LGBTQIA+ community. We are an inclusive, welcoming and supportive workplace and believe in equality and opportunity for all.

Our Pride Initiative is driven by our newly-formed Pride Committee, who are working together to deliver education, celebration, respect and community for our LGBTQIA+ community.

Through AVC Pride we will regularly evaluate our social impact and take steps towards positive, progressive and productive change.

Read on for recent Pride activity, or visit out diversity centre for more information about AVC’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiatives.

Big Gay Day

Brisbane’s biggest and best rainbow festival! For 22 years, The Whickham has hosted Big Gay Day – a day filled with fun, frivolity and a whole lot of colour.

Wear It Purple

We’ve painted AVC purple for the last two years with Wear It Purple Day becoming an annual event for our crew to get involved in.

Wear It Purple strives to foster supportive, safe, empowering and inclusive environments for rainbow young people and we’re proud to be a part of the day and help raise funds for Minus18. Check out how we’ve celebrated below…

Wear It Purple 2022

Wear It Purple 2023

Mardi Gras

Every year The Winery in Surry Hills, Sydney celebrates Mardi Gras with days of fun, entertainment and bucket loads of colour.

Find out more

In the spirit of reconciliation, Australian Venue Co. acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

Australian Venue Co. is a place free from discrimination, where everyone belongs. We respect and celebrate the diversity of our communities, including people of all cultural and faith backgrounds, classes, gender and sexual identities, ages and abilities and we are committed to creating a safe and welcoming space for all.