PRIDE Week 2025

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Join us for Library Pride Week as we celebrate the vibrant LGBTIQA+ community through creative activities and engaging events. Everyone is welcome to connect, express, and explore in a space that uplifts and empowers.

We embrace and celebrate diverse identities, experiences, and perspectives and are committed to fostering inclusive, respectful, and safe spaces across all RMIT Library locations and online platforms. Our library goal is to support self-expression and learning in an environment free from discrimination.

Join us for Library Pride Week as we celebrate the vibrant LGBTIQA+ community through creative activities and engaging events. Everyone is welcome to connect, express, and explore in a space that uplifts and empowers.

📅 Check the timeline below for event details.
🎉 Let’s celebrate RMIT PRIDE 2025 together!

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Event timeline

Online games

🏳️‍🌈️🏳️‍🌈 ​​​​​​18 - 31 August 2025 🏳️‍🌈️🏳️‍🌈 Open at all hours

Read, play, slay: library for pride

🌈️🌈​​​​​​​ 26 August 2025 🌈🌈 10AM - 4PM 🏢SGS Campus: REC Building 10 🏢HN Campus: Level 5, Tower B Classroom 003- 004-005

Wear it purple day

️👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩💜 29 August 2025 💜👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 8AM - 5PM Hanoi & SGS campus

Mark your calendar: Explore the key dates and exciting activities during our Pride Week 2025!

🎮 Try our online pride games:  Match Up & Quizziz

🎁 Total of 30 fun prizes to be won

🌈️ Celebrate Pride with hands-on fun! 

We have creative stations to keep your day filled with colours

🎨 DIY bookmark decorating
🧶 Dried clay station to craft your own creations
📚 Pride-themed displays 

🎉 Play games to win exclusive Library Pride tote bags!

The event is open to all staff and students, so come and join us!

🏢Celebrate inclusion at RMIT VN Library

💜 Wear It Purple is a youth-focused LGBTIQA+ awareness day celebrated across Australia.
💜Show your support by wearing something purple!
📸 Snap a photo at our themed Pride photo backdrops

🎁 Comment on the Library’s Wear it Purple day post with your picture for a surprise treat and get a chance to win amazing prizes!


 

Sharing corner

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Leave a message to express your support for the LGBTQIA+ community, then stick it on the board in our library.

  • Take a photo of your meaningful message(s)
  • Post it in the comments section of the library’s Pride Week social media post with your student/staff ID as the caption. (The post will go public on 18 August 2025)

10 valid comments will receive Pride lanyards and be featured in the Pride Week warm-up post. 

Additionally, 20 valid comments will be randomly selected to win a library sticky note or a stuffed animal.

Deadline for comments: 5:00 PM, 29 August 2025

Book display

️🏳️‍🌈️🏳️‍🌈 Pride in Our Pages

💜 Celebrate diversity, inclusion, and the power of stories with our Pride Book Display!

Featuring a curated selection of fiction, memoirs, and non-fiction that highlight LGBTQIA+ voices, the collection explores identity, resilience, and love. Discover titles that inspire, spark conversation, and celebrate diversity. Visit our interactive booths and explore the vibrant spectrum of human experience through reading and creativity.

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Digital display

🌈️🌈​​​​​​​ Celebrate Pride anytime, anywhere with our curated digital collection!

Accessible through the Library’s online databases, this display features eBooks, shows and documentaries, and movies that highlight LGBTQIA+ voices, histories, and experiences. Whether you're reading for pleasure or seeking inspiration, discover powerful stories that promote inclusion, understanding, and pride.

From proquest e-book central

From library databases

From kanopy and informit databases

Library subject guide

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Library subject guide

This guide will help you discover the LGBTIQA+ books, ebooks, academic journals, and films we have in our collection. Also included are links to organizations that provide services to the LGBTIQA+ community.

Read RMIT University Library's Safe and Inclusive Spaces statement and more LGBTIQA+ Resources below. 

Stickers and instruction