STEPPING OUT with pride
New Idea|August 28, 2023
ABBIE'S SHOELACE PROJECT HELPS PEOPLE SHOW THEIR TRUE COLOURS
Brigid Auchettl
STEPPING OUT with pride

When Abbie Jane started sharing packets of rainbow beads with her friends, and other LGBTQIA+-identifying kids to wear on their shoelaces, she had no clue the project would go global!

Along with her friend Max Dawnn, 13-year-old Abbie created the Rainbow Shoelace Project as a way to support the queer community in her home town of Broken Hill, NSW.

Abbie explains the beads, threaded onto shoelaces, signal you are a part of the LGBTQIA+ community, or you are an ally.

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