Brisbane Pride Awards $94,500 to LGBTQ+ Projects Across Queensland
Brisbane Pride has awarded $94,500 to LGBTQ+ projects across Queensland, supporting Pride festivals, young people, trans communities and grassroots groups.
LGBTQ+ organisations and community projects across Queensland are getting a major funding boost after Brisbane Pride announced $94,500 in grants on 14 September 2026.
The money will support everything from regional Pride festivals and LGBTQ+ youth programmes to trans events, accessible community spaces and projects helping people experiencing isolation. Brisbane Pride says the funding is designed to put money directly into organisations already working within their own communities.
Pride funding reaches communities across Queensland
A total of $83,500 has been awarded through the Queensland Pride Grants programme, with funding reaching both metropolitan and regional areas.
Townsville Pride Collective and Cairns Pride will each receive $15,000 towards their regional Pride festivals, while Sunshine Coast Pride Network has been awarded $16,500 to establish a new Community Pride Picnic. Gold Coast Pride Collective will receive $15,000 towards its 2027 Fair Day alongside another $3,000 for Trans Formal 2027.
Rainbow on the Reef has secured $6,000 for its Pride festival in Gladstone, while the Queensland LGBTQIA+ Alliance will receive the same amount towards a regional LGBTQ+ sector forum in Cairns. A further $5,500 will support the Black Pride Queer Celebration through the gar’ban’djee’lum Network.
Grassroots LGBTQ+ groups also benefit
Another $11,000 is being shared between 11 projects through Brisbane Pride’s Community Grants programme.
Among them is headspace Ipswich, which will receive $1,500 for Rainbow Chaos Springfield, an initiative designed to help LGBTQ+ young people connect and find community. Sparks on the Spectrum will receive $1,000 towards a social group for neurodivergent LGBTQ+, Sistergirl and Brotherboy people, while QTrans has been awarded $1,000 for a programme supporting LGBTQ+ migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and culturally diverse communities.
Brisbane Pride says its wider grant programme is intended to strengthen LGBTQ+ communities and help locally designed projects grow, particularly outside Queensland’s biggest urban centres. The organisation has been funding grassroots community work for years alongside its major Pride celebrations.
For dozens of smaller LGBTQ+ groups, that means practical support to turn community ideas into real events, services and spaces. It also puts funding directly into projects helping LGBTQ+ people connect, celebrate and feel supported where they live.
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