Each year, La Trobe celebrates Pride Week in the last week of August, to coincide with Wear It Purple Day. This year, Pride Week is a little quieter than normal as we focus our resources on developing a foundational LGBTIQA+ Inclusion Action Plan for the La Trobe community.
Student Events
Finding Pride Workshop: Belonging, Pride & Self-Acceptance (online)
Tuesday 25 August, 1:30pm – 3pm
Online via Zoom
Registrations essential
We’re excited to offer a special online workshop during La Trobe Pride Week so that we can come together as a community and create a meaningful space for connection, reflection, and growth.
This interactive workshop is designed for LGBTQIA+ students and will provide a welcoming and affirming space to:
- Connect with other LGBTQIA+ students from across La Trobe.
- Explore experiences of identity, belonging, and self-acceptance.
- Reflect on the strengths and resilience that have helped you navigate challenges.
- Learn practical ways to respond more kindly to self-doubt and self-criticism.
- Celebrate pride, community, and what matters most to you.
Queer Club x Fencing Club – Come and Try! (Bundoora)
La Trobe Queer Club and La Trobe Fencing Club are teaming up to host an introduction to fencing! This session is for total beginners to come and try fencing in a LGBTIQA+ affirming environment.
Time: 6:30pm, 26 August 2026
Place: Menzies Studios 202
Registrations essential
Wear it Purple Day
Each year, the last Friday in August is Wear it Purple Day, a day to wear purple as a way to support creating safer, more inclusive and empowering environments for LGBTIQA+ community members.
Friday 28 August, we encourage all La Trobe community members to show their support by:
- Wear something purple
- Change your Teams or Zoom background to use during meetings and classes: Download a Wear it Purple Teams background
- Check out what’s on: Wear it Purple Calendar of Events
What else is happening?
The National Student Safety Survey (NSSS)
Have your say on campus and student safety in the NSSS, opening September 14 – keep an eye on your emails for the link. This survey shapes policies, services and other national initiatives that help keep university students safe from violence and other forms of harm, like discrimination.
The Hookup, Edition 2 is coming!
Did you know that La Trobe University has an exclusive student-focused, no-nonsense, evidence-backed sexual and reproductive health annual magazine? Now you do! Get your copy of The Hook Up Edition 2 (and Edition 1 if you missed out last year) on launch day Thursday September 10 in front of the Bundoora Library at 11am – 1pm, or take a copy from your campus library or student centre from late September onwards.
Resources for Learning and Action
Here are some useful links that may support your planning and learning this Pride Week.
La Trobe Library: LGBTIQA+ Guide
Curated resources from La Trobe Library to support learning and research around LGBTIQA+ topics.
Interaction: Intersex Briefings
Briefings and educational resources focused on the rights, needs and experiences of intersex people in Australia.
TransHub: Allies
Practical guidance for allies supporting trans and gender diverse people, including tips for respectful language and inclusive behaviour.
Australian Government Style Manual: Inclusive Language
Guidance on writing respectfully and inclusively about gender and sexual diversity in professional and public communications.
Looking for support?
La Trobe provides free and confidential wellbeing support to students, including counselling, financial advice, legal services and more: Visit the Wellbeing Services page.
Our dedicated LGBTIQA+ counselling service for free, confidential support from professional LGBTIQA+ counsellors.
Safer Community provides, confidential service for students to report concerning, threatening, inappropriate or uncomfortable behaviour they may have experienced or witnessed at the University.