ABOUT
Redefining Queer Identity
If you judge an LGBTQ+ person only on their sexual orientation or gender, they will spend their lives believing that their sexual orientation or gender is their only identity.
We are subtlety coerced into adopting and expressing an identity that we have been forced to believe is socially acceptable.
This forced identity has led to a crisis of collective and individual low sense of self across the community.
For many of us, our dreams and ambitions are stifled and silenced by those around us.
We live in a world that constantly tells us what to do, how to act, what to be.
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Don’t be too loud
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Don’t be too gay
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Be fun
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Be camp
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Don’t be straight acting
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Be my “gay-best-friend”
One of the greatest challenges we face is the disconnection between who we are and who we think we ought to be. Sometimes, this difference fuels our self-loathing. Most times, we lose our sense of self.
There is the need, across the LGBTQ+ community, to be heard, to be seen, to be authentically validated for who we are.
Nurturing our LGBTQ+ identity, relationships and purpose helps us navigate through the world and our role in it – with resilience and creativity.
This sparks a new understanding and acceptance of ourselves, each other, and the world.
We provide the tools, connections and community to help you do that.
We inspire imagination, encourage curiosity and cultivate possibilities.
We believe in your power of resilience and creativity.
Together we listen, reflect and respond.
Across Rainbows is a community that propels itself forward, not through sexual or gender identity, but through our unique voices that redefine Queer identity.
A FRESH APPROACH TO
QUEER MENTAL FITNESS
Supporting the sexual, social, mental and spiritual well-being of LGBTQ+ people.
Taking back control of what it means to be LGBTQ+, being who we are instead of who the world thinks we should be.
Challenging and changing the narrative that the world has ingrained on us.
Providing the community with the tools needed to stand up strong in a sometimes very hostile and unsafe world.
Championing the LGBTQ+ community with passion, courage and integrity.
Who we are
When people come together and move in the same direction, extraordinary results are created.
Bradley Reynolds
Advisory Board
Matt Davey
Freelance Graphic Designer
Tom Eames
Freelance Photographer & Media
Luciana Cousin
Founder / Principal
Nicholas Cousin
Principal
Esther Compostella
Advisory Board
Rachael Lewis
Advisory Board
OUR Purpose
To redefine Queer Identity.
Light up the community :
so that every single LGBTQ+ person on the planet
is heard, is visible, is treated as a human being.
OUR vision
Our PRINCIPLES
To challange. To motivate.
To celebrate.
Across Rainbows provides everything you need to stand up, make confident and courageous moves, thrive and live your life your way.
Because no matter what stage of life you're at, regardless of age, we all would love to live life with more clarity and direction, to understand relationships, to ride life’s 'waves' with a little less slipping and falling off .
It is this formula that makes Across Rainbows so successful.
Workshops
The uniqueness of what we do is that our workshops are a revolutionary, challenging, rapid, fast track, no BS, head hurting, top down, bottom up, process that changes lives.
Across Rainbows workshops and retreats are open to anyone from 18 years old to 80+
Across Rainbows workshops will
Ignite creativity and passion
Give more confidence
Improve relationships and intimacy
All our workshops, seminars, retreats and peer support groups are intentionally designed to:
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transcend sexual orientation and gender identity
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deal with the core of the individual as a person, a human being
Across Rainbows workshops will
Ignite creativity and passion,
give more confidence,
improve relationships and intimacy
join the RAINBOW REVOLUTION
Join the Rainbow Revolution and take back control
of what it means to be you.
The Rainbow Revolution is a way of life.
Be braver, be fiercer, be stronger, shine brighter,
Let's light up the community,
not just for ourselves but for others.
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Join us and be a part of the revolution!
