For the purposes of celebrating diversity and acknowledging those who act with courage in working to achieve fairness and equity, the community of friends and family known as ‘rainbow people’ (sexual & gender diverse people) gather together annually at the League of Gentlefellows-sponsored Rainbow Dinner & Awards.
Over three hundred people will gather from across Tasmania and interstate to attend the festivities, which will take place at the Wrest Point Hotel Tasman Room on the evening of Saturday November 26.
Every alternate year the dinner features the Rainbow Awards to acknowledge those people who act with courage in working to achieve fairness & equity for the LGBTI Community.
This year fourteen people, because of the courageous and cooperative action they have taken to achieve equity for the sexual and gender diverse community, will be acknowledged in the Awards.
The League of Gentlefellows (LoG) is an informal Statewide group of over 1,900 Tasmanian GLBTI people and their friends who meet on a regular basis in non-threatening and safe social settings to celebrate their lives and enjoy each other’s company.
As a charity benefit through the Coming Out Proud Program (COPP) Trust, proceeds from this year’s Rainbow Dinner will help support the four regional COPP Community Liaison Committees in their work opposing discrimination, preventing suicide and bullying, and creating safe space for local LGBTI communities. Details of the Awards are attached.
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Julian Punch Tasmanian Council for Sexual & Gender Diverse People Inc
