Welcome to the Pride & Prejudice website!

If you could significantly change student attitudes toward gay men and lesbians, would you do it? What if it only took you one hour a week for six weeks?

The first response to these questions is typically disbelief. Six weeks? Is that all? Are you mad? Have you been into schools lately? Have you been in a classroom with a group of young men? You'd need six months!

This site offers everything you need to know about the program that has changed the way schools educate students about sexual diversity and challenge homophobia. More than six years since its launch - and after a decade of development - Pride & Prejudice provides practical strategies for classrooms, focusing on real examples of gay and lesbian people, meaningful conversation and interactive education. This powerful education tool has already found its way into over 750 schools, predominately in regional and outer metropolitan Victoria and Tasmania, Australia.

The Pride & Prejudice package has successfully addressed an evident gap in the education system. It genuinely excites school communities because it is practical and accessible for teachers and students. Same sex attracted young people, both current and former students, have advocated strongly for initiatives that impact students directly in the classroom, rather than just discussions in staff rooms and development of policy.

Formal evaluation by universities in both Victoria and Tasmania conclude that through the Pride & Prejudice program attitudes of students toward gay men and lesbians changed significantly over six weeks.

How does a young gay atheist “accidentally” and successfully pilot a challenging homophobia program in an all-boys Catholic school? What led to the Tasmanian Education Department’s commitment to implement that same program in all of its state schools? Why is this work a “world-first”? Read on.