Aboriginal elders and leaders will march to highlight the faces and voices often forgotten in Australia’s dialogue around LGBTQ identities.

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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

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