Pride group responds to councillor’s defunding attempt

Queer youth company responds after gender-critic's viral post

A queer children’s education company has dismissed a post by a gender-critical campaigner that stated LGBTQ+ organisations aimed at children should be “defunded” A post criticising “Pride organisations aimed at kids,” shared on X by gender-critical campaigner Venice Allan — who has over 27,000 followers on the platform — received more than 100,000 views and thousands of interactions. In the post, the photo shows a banner for Pop’n’Olly, a childr…

Pride group responds to councillor’s defunding attempt

The Busselton Pride Alliance says it is disappointed in a councillor who pushed to revoke funding for its annual event, which ultimately failed.

Busselton Councillor calls for Pride festival to be defunded

A City of Busselton councillor has claimed that the majority of people in the region find Pride celebrations offensive. At a City of Busselton Council meeting on 25th June Councillor Richard Beecroft put forward a proposal to defund the region’s Pride and Wellbeing Festival. “I’d like to remove the three years of payment for the Pride Festival.” Councillor Beecroft told his colleagues. “The majority of the people in the City if Busselton quite f…