Help us raise $25,000
For 15 years, ATQM has presented free large-scale community and cultural events. For the first time in our history, we’re asking you, our community, for support.
Your support will enable us to connect and celebrate Rainbow Families and LGBTIQ+ children, throughout rural and regional Australia, in joyous, creative and safe spaces.
Help us share our new performance work, Play Date around the country. Your support will enable LGBTIQ+ children to feel proud and inspired, whilst celebrating their full selves.
Every dollar you contribute is matched (thanks to Plus1). $25,000 donated = $25,000 matched funds. All donations over $2 are tax deductible.
We need to raise $25,000 by 9 May 2024.
Around Australia, Rainbow families face significant discrimination, exclusion and marginalisation for living in alternative family structures; facing legal challenges of relationship recognition, and difficulties accessing safer, inclusive services from government and education contexts (Rainbow Families – Love Still Makes a Family Report, 2019).
Studies show this is even more acute for those in rural, regional and remote areas.
Now, more than ever, LGBTIQ+ children are politicised in the media leading to LGBTIQ+ children experiencing feelings of isolation, discrimination and not seeing positive representations of themselves.
ATQM want to be part of a positive solution to address this urgent issue.
It’s in this context that ATQM’s new work, Play Date, a music concert and dance party for little ones and their (chosen) families, has been developed. Play Date is passionately focused on children and celebrating inclusion.
Supporting this campaign allows ATQM to tour to rural and regional towns in 2025, presenting community outcomes that inspire LGBTIQ+ creativity and grow social health and wellbeing for children across the country.
Your support means Rainbow Families and LGBTIQ+ children in rural and regional Australia can connect and share stories of resilience and creativity, while building confidence and a healthy sense of belonging and identities.
By investing in ATQM and this campaign, you are:
1. Celebrating diversity: supporting a vibrant multi-generational, family project that advocates for inclusivity for all.
2. Building multi-generational connections: contributing to live experiences which foster connections across the ‘age’ spectrum
3. Joining ATQM’s ‘Chosen Family’: gaining access to an exclusive launch event, online screening, and unique project-related merchandise.
4. Establishing a culture of ongoing giving: leveraging ATQM’s proven track record and respected reputation within this unique opportunity of a matched fund campaign.
5. Contributing to creativity and positive social change: contribute to a broader movement that elevates equality and visibility for LGBTIQ+ families and youth, challenges ‘norms’, sparks dialogue and amplifies community representation.
Thanks to our Campaign Supporters thus far:
Roger Monk, Karen Moyle, Jei Li’Rann, John Sones, EJ Norvill, Takeshi Kondo, Mama Alto, Kieren Reynolds, Jessica Devereux, Andrew Foster, Jude Gun, Axel Garay, Warrick Dawson, Brad Weis, Aneke McCulloch, Julia Zemiro, Anita Norvill, Rowena & Suzy Doo, Trish Carlon, Rochelle Whyte, Julianne Shelton, Gerry Costigan, Jamie Gardiner, Peta Murray, Jane Murphy, Collette Brennan, Kate Sulan, Fiona Addison, Sue Maslin, Bron Batten, Chloe Greaves, Michaela Coventry, Julia Mardjuki, Andy Taylor, Adam Miller, Daniel Slusarek, Lauren Mullings, Jane Bayly, Kerrie Noonan, Zachary Sheridan, Emilie Collyer, Lucy Hamilton, Angela Savage, Sara Charlesworth, Annette Vieusseux, Chris Summers, Sheila Addison, Clair Smith, Annabelle Murphy, Lloyd Harris, Morgan Hind, Helen Marriage, Brigid Magner, Rachel Burke, Philip Mitchell, Andrew Gill, Ro and Kaye Bradshaw, Jonathan Nicol, Kaylie Melville, Michelle McCann, Kim Munro, Ali Duncan, Simon Abrahams, Bob Reid, Peta Williams, Heike Raunow, Angharad Wynne-Jones, Adelaide Rief, Fabian Kong, Kate Larsen, Gareth Hart, Gabby Rose, Zenith Virago, Katherine Gillick, Thea Baumann, David McMicken, Maggie McNulty, Hannah Liddeaux, Jo Thomas, Jennifer Greer Holmes, Kate Baggerson, Ben Graetz, Graeme Ilbery, Jason Maling, Dan Goronszy, Jade Lillie, Mandy Errington, Tone Aston, Kristian Santic, Anne & Craig Burgess, Charlie Cush and those who wish to remain anonymous.