Aboriginal elders and community members will lead Melbourne’s Pride March ( for the first time this year. Matthew Wade spoke to a couple of the marchers about visibility, intersectional discrimination, and being out and proud in the Aboriginal community.
As an out and proud Aboriginal queer woman Jessie Lloyd sees herself as a role model, though her sexuality hasn’t always been as public or visible.
“I grew up in the church, but as soon as I became an adult I made a very clear decision to live my life the way I wanted it to be,” she said.
Photo by Benson Kua [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons