LGBT youth group seeks community support for new dedicated space

A NATIONAL organisation that advocates for LGBT youth has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help raise funds to build Victoria’s first dedicated space for and led by LGBT youth.

Minus18’s Atrium is being billed as a space where LGBT youth can be empowered to create change in their communities, where young people can meet other LGBT youth and feel at home, and a space where young people from all over Melbourne can come and be themselves.

Minus18 launched the crowdfunding campaign for the Atrium at 6.30pm yesterday, setting the target at $20,000. In less than 24 hours, $3000 was already raised.

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Minus18 general manager Micah Scott said: “For 16 years, Minus18 has been supporting young people create change and empowering them to challenge homophobia and transphobia.

“The Atrium takes us to the next level in the hopes of supporting tens of thousands more LGBT young people with a place where they belong.”

Minus18 has more than 50 young volunteers and activists working to create an Australia free from homophobia and transphobia.

Watch their campaign video here:

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