Rainbow Realities: In-depth analyses of large-scale LGBTQA+ health and wellbeing data in Australia – SASHA: South Australian Sexual Health Awareness

Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, April 2024.

Rainbow Realities provides a synthesis of pre-existing findings as well as more than 50 new analyses derived from the data of six surveys of LGBTQA+ populations in Australia. These are: Private Lives 3, Writing Themselves In 4, SWASH , Trans Pathways, Walkern Katatdjin (Rainbow Knowledge) and Pride and Pandemic. In total, the surveys received more than 20,000 responses from LGBTQA+ people, spanning all parts of the country and a wide range of intersectional backgrounds.

The report has been thematically organised into 10 chapters relating to either a key determinant or contributing factor to LGBTQA+ health outcomes, or a topic of particular interest:

Mental health and suicidality
Income inequality,
Housing and experiences of homelessness
Discrimination and abuse
Family violence and sexual assault
Alcohol and other drugs
Relationships
Parenting and sexual and reproductive health
Gender affirmation and trans affirming practices
General healthcare
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Intersectional identities

Rainbow Realities was launched on Tuesday 9 April at the 12th Health in Difference Conference in Canberra by The Hon Mark Butler MP, Minister for Health and Aged Care.

Download report (PDF) here

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