Victorian Pride Centre, Australia’s Largest LGBTQI Community Hub Opens In Melbourne
Australia’s first state-funded, purpose-built and the world’s second largest LGBTQI+ Community Hub – the Victorian Pride Centre threw open its doors to the community on Sunday July 11, 2021.Victorian Premier Dan Andrews officially launched the VPC – built at a cost of $50 million, and funded by the Victorian government and the City of Port Phillip – along with Minister of Equality Martin Foley and Port Phillip mayor Louise Crawford. “We are here to open a building that is the culmination of so much hard work over such a long period of time,” said Premier Andrews at the opening of the Centre located on Fitzroy Street – close to the where Australia’s first gay rights group, the Melbourne-based Daughters of Bilitis had their office in the late.
