LGBTI Indigenous people offered a rainbow to follow

Dameyon Bonson says as a young gay Indigenous man he desperately needed a role model, but none was available, so he set up Black Rainbow, the first mental health and suicide prevention support service of its type

As a gay Aboriginal man, Dameyon Bonson says it was difficult to find anyone like him when he was growing up.

There were no gay Aboriginal role models that he knew of, and the Aids scare that swept through Australia – culminating with the Grim Reaper campaign of 1987 – meant Bonson felt ashamed, and even scared, of his sexuality.

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