Speaker Type: LGBTQ+

Daniel Witthaus

Author, Education Consultant, Inspirational Speaker, LGBTQ+, Storyteller/Performer, Wellbeing

Daniel Witthaus believes you can change the world one cuppa at a time.  He has spent 29 years challenging homophobia and working on LGBTIQA+ inclusion one cuppa at a time in schools, rural communities and, occasionally, developing countries. He has also worked with Kids Help Line, VicHealth, the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission and No to Violence, a national men’s family violence organisation.

Daniel is the author of Beyond Priscilla: one gay man, one gay truck, one big idea… (2014), Beyond ‘That’s So Gay!’: Challenging homophobia in Australian schools (2010) and the Pride & Prejudice educational package (2002, 2012) – which won Human Rights Week awards for work in three Tasmanian schools.

In 2013 Daniel founded Rural Pride Australia which focuses on the needs of LGBTIQA+ people in regional, rural and remote Australia.  His focus is on helping communities assess their LGBTIQA+ inclusion readiness, practical strategies that work outside metropolitan centres and working on what can be done “in the meantime” ahead of an LGBTIQA+ utopia.

He is also semi-obsessed with abandoned buildings and is an international gay gold medallist in tennis.