About Us
The Queensland LGBTQIA+ Alliance is the peak alliance committed to building a healthier, more just, and more connected future for LGBTQIA+ people across the state.
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We are a coalition of Queensland LGBTQIA+ organisations — big and small, regional and urban, grassroots and specialist — who have come together not just to be heard, but to lead reform together.
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Guided by First Nations leadership, LGBTQIA+ peer wisdom, and lived experience, the Alliance serves as a trusted voice, a collaborative home, and a platform to progress meaningful change across generations of LGBTQIA+ Queenslanders.
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We know that promising practice solutions come from the people living the realities. That’s why we prioritise community expertise at every level — not as a checkbox, but as the foundation of everything we do.
We facilitate inclusive policy, research and advocacy initiatives to elevate the priorities, voices and leadership of LGBTQIA+ Queenslanders, including underrepresented groups such as First Nations, Transgender and Gender-Diverse peoples, Intersex peoples, people living with disabilities and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) people.
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We invest in regional, rural, and remote community capacity across the state to ensure that all LGBTQIA+ people, families, and their children, regardless of their geographical location, have access to safe, inclusive, culturally secure, and affirming support, representation, rights, and opportunities.
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We exist to empower, elevate, and amplify the work of LGBTQIA+ services, groups, and individuals across our sunny state, while also pushing for whole-of-government systems-level change and reform that our people need and deserve.
Our work is guided by a simple but powerful cohesive strategy: Unite. Engage. Thrive.
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• We Unite to strengthen connections across the sector, build trust, and create a shared voice that reflects the diversity of our communities.
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• We Engage lived experience, and the local leadership of those often left out, ensuring that decision-making is community-owned and culturally secure.
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• And we Thrive by investing in the wellbeing, capability, sustainability, and leadership of LGBTQIA+ people and organisations within Queensland.
For community, we are a space to be seen and supported.
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For government, we are a direct line to insight, genuine partnerships, and innovation.
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For allies, we are an invitation: to stand with us, grow with us, and help build something lasting.
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Funded by the Queensland Government, the Queensland LGBTQIA+ Alliance delivers peak body services for LGBTQIA+ Queenslanders of all ages. Joining the Alliance means being part of something bigger — something vibrant, vital, and deeply connected to the Queensland communities it represents.
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Together, we’re not just reacting to the world as it is. We’re helping shape the world as it should be.
Our Team
Chief Executive Officer
Rebecca Johnson OAM
She/Her
Project Officer
Zoë Nano
She/Her
Policy Officer (part-time)
Annabelle Oxley
She/Her
Policy Officer (part-time)
Mitch Medcalf
He/Him
Queensland LGBTQIA+ Alliance Interim Committee
Co-Chairs
Jayden Fisher &
Rebecca Reynolds (non-voting)
Secretary
Kurt Maroske
Treasurer
James McCarthy
First Nations Representative
Tania Orchard
Regional Representative
Kirstine Hand
General Committee Member
Trevor Kanapi
General Committee Member
Stephanie Saal
