About

OUTintheOPEN Festival Shepparton

OUTintheOPEN is Shepparton’s festival celebrating LGBTIQA+ pride and community diversity.

OUTintheOPEN was developed to address some of the inequalities faced by the local lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex plus gender/sexuality diverse (LGBTI+) communities and to build a more inclusive community in Greater Shepparton.

OUTintheOPEN is a project led by Goulburn Valley Pride Inc. and is proudly supported by many other organisations and community groups, including:
• headspace Shepparton
• Uniting Kildonan Shepparton
• PFLAG Greater Shepparton (Parents, Family members & Friends of Lesbian & Gay people)
• Diversity Group (same-sex attracted & sex and gender diverse young person’s social-support group)
• Goulburn Valley Health
• Primary Care Connect
• Centre for Excellence in Rural Sexual Health (CERSH)
• Relationships Australia Victoria
• Goulburn Valley Primary Care Partnership
• Greater Shepparton City Council
• Goulburn North East Women’s Health
• Goulburn Valley Hotel
• La Trobe University
• Victoria Police
• Word and Mouth
• WayOut – Cobaw
• The Bridge Youth Service
• SAM
• GOTAFE

The festival generally consists of a health/wellbeing forum(s) in Shepparton’s CBD and a Carnival day on the first couple of weekends in November at the Queens Gardens. Numerous other events occur during the Festival across the City of Greater Shepparton.

For more info contact Damien on 0418 511 562 or enquiries@outintheopen.org.au &/or follow us on Facebook.

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