Wear it Purple

Our Purpose: Wear it Purple strives to foster supportive, safe, empowering and inclusive environments for rainbow young people. As a volunteer run non-profit organisation we focus on awareness, opportunity, environment and collaboration with our guiding principles governing our activity: Advocate for and empower rainbow young people Celebrate and promote the value of diversity and inclusion in all community settings Raise awareness about sexuality, sex and gender identity and challenge harmful social cultures Champion rainbow role-models to help young people establish the confidence to be who they are. Wear it Purple was founded in 2010 in response to global stories of real teenagers, real heartache and their very real responses. In 2010, several rainbow young people took their own lives following bullying and harassment restyling from the lack of acceptance of their sexuality or gender identity. One member of this group was 18 year old Tyler Clementi who took his own li...