Established in 2013, the South Australian Rainbow Advocacy Alliance Inc. (SARAA) has a long history of advocating for a LGBTIQA+ inclusive, healthy and safe South Australia.
Check out some of our past work below:
Suicide prevention training for LGBTIQA+ leaders
Empowering LGBTIQA+ leaders to respond to mental health crisis in our communities Thanks to generous funding from Wellbeing SA, we provided subsidised mental health and suicide prevention training to South Australian LGBTIQA+ community leaders. LGBTIQA+ South Australians are experiencing a…
2022 SA Election
Ahead of the 2022 SA Election, we urged South Australian leaders from across the political spectrum to commit to our Vision for SA Pride 2030 to create a healthy, safe and inclusive community for LGBTIQA+ South Australians. Our 2022 SA…
Spent convictions 2020
SARAA long called for the South Australian Government to redress historical wrongs caused by remaining convictions for consensual same-sex activity. In 2016 we wrote to then Premier The Hon Jay Weatherill with our friends at Human Rights Law Centre to…
Hate crimes 2021
Laws that legitimise and excuse violent and lethal behaviour against any member of the LGBTIQ+ community have no place here. In 2020, during the push to abolish the outdated ‘gay panic’ defence, 38,292 people signed our petition with Equality Australia…
LGBTIQA+ inclusion training for crisis and suicide prevention organisations
We’re growing the pool of LGBTIQA+ inclusive and safe suicide prevention services in South Australia Thanks to generous funding from Wellbeing SA, SARAA and SHINE SA partnered in 2022 to provide free LGBTIQA+ inclusivity training to South Australian crisis and…
Gay panic 2020
The South Australian Rainbow Advocacy Alliance (SARAA) was very proud to successfully lobby, together with other LGBTIQA+ advocates, to finally get rid of the outdated and cruel gay panic defence. Used in South Australia as recently as in 2015, the…
State Election 2018
In the lead up to the 2018 South Australian State election SARAA examined the statements and commitments of the various SA political parties as well as looking at the issues raised within the LGBTIQ community. 2018 SA Election LGBTIQA+ scorecard
Gender identity laws 2015
In 2015 the South Australian government reformed our state’s laws to both: allow person to have a sex or gender other than male or female recorded on the Register establish a process for changing a person’s registered sex and/or gender.…
Blood donation 2020
The South Australian Rainbow Advocacy Alliance (SARAA) congratulates the South Australian Government for bringing blood donation policy for men who have sex with men up-to-date with the Therapeutic Goods Administration guidelines but says there is still a long way to…
Marriage equality 2017
We were proud to advocate, along with thousands of other Australians, for the right of LGBTIQA+ Australians to marry. 2 years on from the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey, our Chair, Matthew Morris, reflects on the process toward marriage equality:…