Queer Town

Work in the public sector? Or know someone who does? I’ll be delivering a FREE webinar tomorrow for IPAA Victoria on behalf of Queer Town 🥳🌈 Be sure to register!

Meet Law (she/her) 🌞 The Head of Digital at Queer Town: our creative mastermind and Jack of all Trades, Master of Many. Join Law for shoot day as she project manages the production of our LGBTIQA+ 101 Digital Short Course** 🎥🏳️🌈 We can’t wait to introduce to more of the team! **Pre-sales for our digital short course (25 min workplace allyship compliance training) with early bird pricing go live this week! 🤯🥳 To register for this ‘soft launch’ opportunity and get the lowdown on the course, check out: https://lnkd.in/ezvAqE-D 💥

🍽️ Spend your lunch break with Queer Town tomorrow! (1:00pm Thu Nov 28th) Join our *free* webinar to learn firsthand from our founder Archie Beetle and HR leader Abbey Gladysz about how you can support gender transitions in the workplace! ✨ Register here: https://lnkd.in/gMtYytec This will be the first instalment of our free webinar series: QT Chats. Join the conversation and upskill your allyship in the workplace 💪 🏳️🌈

We’re looking forward to seeing our Group Head of Corporate Services Abbey Gladysz joining Archie Beetle of Queer Town in the webinar ‘Supporting Trans & Gender Diverse Folks Transitioning in the Workplace’. Archie is an amazing educator and has worked with several workplaces such as ours to create an inclusive environment where LGBTIQA+ people can show up authentically. Abbey is a values-driven people leader, who is passionate about creating and working environment where everyone feels welcome, appreciated and able to do their very best. Archie and Abbey will discuss Queer Town’s partnership with Novatti to educate employees and create an inclusive workplace culture for trans and gender-diverse employees. Date: Thursday 28 November 2024 Time: 1pm to 1:30pm Register for this free webinar here: https://lnkd.in/gMtYytec #workplacediversity #inclusion

Spend your lunch break with Queer Town! 🌈 Introducing QT CHATS: A free webinar series featuring 1:1 conversations with a focus on LGBTIQA+ experiences. 🎟️ Register for our first chat on supporting gender transitions in the workplace here: https://lnkd.in/gMtYytec Hosted by our founder & CEO Archie Beetle, these bite-sized chats take a deep dive into the nitty-gritty of LGBTIQA+ topics, sharing real-world insights from the lived expertise of our team, our community, our projects and our partners 🌏 🤲 This series is open to anyone looking to learn, however it’s pitched in particular to HR professionals, workplace leaders and those directly involved with diversity, equity and inclusion. 🏳️⚧️ For Trans Awareness Month our first chat features HR superhero Abbey Gladysz, Group Head of Corporate Services at Novatti Group (ASX: NOV), a leading digital payments company. Novatti engaged Queer Town in 2023 to design an education and training framework to support their workplace facilitate a gender transition within the team, which contributed to Novatti winning the Best Workplace Diversity Award at the 2024 Finnies (Australian Finance Tech Awards) 👏👏🏆 

Together, Archie and Abbey will explore the wins, lessons and hurdles of this particular case study and how other workplaces can apply a framework of support to guide their staff through similar experiences 🏳️🌈 Register for free to grab your spot and we’ll see ya there! ☺️

It’s Trans Awarness Week 💪🏳️⚧️ #trans #transawarenessweek #lgbtiqa #lgbtqia #diversityandinclusion

“As a queer person, not all of us have our family’s support…” We highly recommend taking a moment to watch Archie’s acceptance speech from the Melbourne Awards over the weekend. There was laughter, reflection and lots of complaints of running mascara 🥲 Thank you once again to the City of Melbourne for honouring the work we do at Queer Town providing education and consultation across Melbourne and beyond 🫶🏻 Thank you to Lord Mayor Nick Reece for presenting us with the award and shout out to the incredible interpreters on the night for your contributions 🤜🤛 📢 As a team we acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunarong peoples of the Kulin, and we pay our respects to their elders and claim to the land known as Naarm. #MelbourneAwards #QueerTown #LGBTIQA #LGBTQIA #queer #DEI #diversityandinclusion

Congratulations to Queer Town for their LGBTIQA+ award at tonight’s City of Melbourne Melbourne Awards

What a night! You’re now looking at a Melbourne Award-Winning Team 🤯🏆🌈 As a small business it’s one thing to see the impacts of our work on a local level through the daily interactions we have in workshops, consultation, events and content. But to be recognised by the very city we’ve served for 6+ years and have grown up in as queer individuals is beyond special. Thank you to the City of Melbourne for this honour and we pay our respects to the traditional custodians of Naarm, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin. We’ve worked with thousands of folks across this city and beyond, creating judgment-free spaces for collaborative learning on LGBTIQA+ inclusion and allyship - and we plan to work with thousands more. So thank you for supporting us and cheering us on! 💪🏳️🌈 We have some very exciting milestones ahead that we can’t wait to share with this growing community: from some very fresh new queer aesthetics to our highly requested Digital Short Course and a 2025 calendar of events. Interested? Then jump to queertown.com.au and drop your email for the updates! A big shoutout to our fellow finalists, any of whom could have been holding the trophy on the night: Trans Pride March, Transform Transwear and Ozanam House (Vincent Care). And thank you to JOY Media for sponsoring this award. Now back to work for us! (After some more nurofen 🥂🏳️) <3 Team QT xo

Today is Intersex Solidarity Day ✊ At Queer Town, the “I” in LGBTIQA+ is consistently the topic our workshop participants know the least about. So check out this mini guide below ⬇️ Get to know what it means to live with an intersex variation, and how we can all show our solidarity and be active allies for friends who fall under the “I” 👯♀️ References: Intersex Human Rights Australia + morgancarpenter.com - thank you!