Springout Pride Festival - Canberra

04/09/2026

BE YOURSELF AT FAIR DAY! 11am-5pm, Saturday 31 October in Glebe Park, Canberra. Featuring over 65 stalls including a sports zone, all day performances ranging from live music to drag, a dog show, a sensory space curated by Marion, a kids zone, a craft space curated by Diversity ACT, community vibes, all day fun for free in the sun or shade!

01/09/2026

VOLUNTEER FOR SPRINGOUT

Join the team today and experience the festival like never before by becoming a part of our volunteer community!

We'd love your help at our official opening event, Fair Day, or at one of our many other events. Volunteer shifts are available for various roles, ensuring we can find you the perfect fit for your skills and interests!

We currently need volunteers for:

🦺 Setting up and packing down

🏳️‍🌈 Décorating

🛍️ Stallholder support

👚 Sales at the SpringOUT stall

🪙 Collecting donations

📢 Stage management

🔦 Production support

🚙 Performer transport

📋 Survey collection

👀 Overseeing the smooth running of all of our events!

Volunteers will earn one free ticket to any SpringOUT organised event in 2026!

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER:

Experience the festival like never before by becoming a part of our volunteer and membership community. Get involved, give back, and enjoy exclusive benefits!

31/08/2026

This was Fiction on Saturday for ‘In Bed by 10’. Now imagine it full with all your LGBTQIA+ dance buddies and the Heaven DJs at full throttle… and where else would you want to be on Fri 27 Nov than ‘One Night in Heaven’?

28/08/2026

🏳️‍🌈 “Why do we still need Pride?”

Well, this BBC article gives us quite a few answers.

Companies are becoming quieter about LGBTQ+ support.

Councils are withdrawing funding and removing Pride flags.

Politicians are declaring that gay equality has basically been achieved, while trans people are facing an increasingly hostile public climate.

And some people within our own community are apparently quite comfortable pulling the ladder up behind them.

The BBC highlights Reform-controlled Durham County Council withdrawing £2,500 from Durham Pride and removing the rainbow flag from council headquarters.

Yet here’s the part worth noticing:

Durham Pride still went ahead. Organisers said it was their biggest year ever.

People donated. Trade unions contributed. The community showed up.

That matters.

Pride was never supposed to exist only when politicians approved of us, corporations considered us commercially fashionable, or everybody else felt comfortable.

And criticism of corporate Pride is perfectly legitimate. Questioning whether multinational companies really care about LGBTQ+ people is very different from arguing that Pride itself has somehow outlived its purpose.

Because equality written into law does not magically remove prejudice, harassment, violence or discrimination.

And when public support starts becoming quieter precisely because supporting LGBTQ+ people has become more controversial?

That seems a particularly strange moment to announce that Pride is no longer needed.

🏳️‍🌈 Pride matters when it is easy.

🏳️‍⚧️ It matters even more when it isn’t.
🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🤎🖤🩶🤍
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27/08/2026

Let’s celebrate our diverse community with love and compassion - tell your story ! 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

25/08/2026

Our community notice board is growing but we still have a lot more room to spare! So if you are a community organisation or events organiser and would like to display your services at the new SpringOUT offices, please send a message!

25/08/2026

Organised by Diversity ACT with financial support from the Australian Capital Territory, Office of LGBTIQA+ Affairs, the Canberra Q***r Film Festival (CQFF) is coming soon for 2 days only - 14 and 15 September.

The Canberra Q***r Film Festival will be dedicated to celebrating colourful and diverse stories written by and for the LGBTIQA+ community and allies in Australia and around the world. This will also be the first FREE q***r film festival ever to be organised locally in Canberra.

With this special event, Diversity ACT aims to spread love, raise awareness, and improve understanding of global LGBTIQA+ communities among LGBTIQA+ Canberrans and allies.

Other sponsors and partners of Canberra Q***r Film Festival include FUSE Magazine, ANU Q***r* Department, Q***r Screen, Hanoi International Q***r Film Week, Beijing Q***r Film Festival, Q***r Food, and many other community organisations across Canberra.

Bringing 17 LGBTIQA+ films from 13 different countries across the globe to the local Canberran audiences, tickets to all screenings of Canberra Q***r Film Festival are FREE.

Please follow their Instagram at Canberra Q***r Film Festival to know how to reserve your seats soon.