LGBTIQ+ health and wellbeing
Theme co-convenors: Joel Anderson, Ruby Grant
ARCSHS houses Australia’s largest research program focused on LGBTIQ+ health and wellbeing, and covers a wide range of research subjects, including:
- mental health
- substance use
- family, domestic and sexual violence
- health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQ+ people
- disability
- older people
- spirituality and spiritual care
- suicide prevention
We work in meaningful partnership with LGBTIQ+ community organisations and stakeholders to maximise our impact. We are also responsible for two of the biggest national surveys on LGBTIQ+ health and wellbeing: Private Lives, exploring the health and wellbeing of adult LGBTIQ+ people; and Writing Themselves In, examining the health and wellbeing of LGBTIQ+ young people.
Recent projects:
- Private Lives 3 - A study of the health and wellbeing of LGBTIQ+ adults in Australia
- Previous iterations of Private Lives
- Writing Themselves In 4 - A study of the health and wellbeing of LGBTQA+ youth in Australia
- Previous iterations of Writing Themselves In
- Optimise+ - Strengthening LGBTQ+ community-controlled mental health and AOD services
- How2 training evaluation - a feasibility and efficacy evaluation of Rainbow Health Australia’s (RHA) How2 training program
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTQA+ people - a series of factsheets exploring data from PL3, WTI4 and Trans Pathways
- LGBTQA+ mental health and suicidality - a suite of state-based briefing papers based on data from PL3, WTI4 and Pride and Pandemic
- Futures of Substance - Exploring LGBTIQ+ people's determinations of ‘problematic’ use
- Accessible PrIDe - Building capacity of LGBTQ+ and disability sectors to practice inclusively with LGBTQ+ people with intellectual disability
- Crossing Lines - A study investigating unwanted sexual behaviours against LGBTQ+ people, aiming to generate actionable knowledge and focussing on the social forces, risk factors, and characteristics of those who use sexual violence
- Sexual minority stressors - New knowledge on internalised prejudice for same-sex attracted Australians
- Rainbow Realities - In-depth analyses of large-scale LGBTQA+ health and wellbeing data in Australia
- Catalysts of Change - Interventions and service pathways for gay, bisexual, trans and queer (GBTQ) men who have used family violence in Victoria, Australia
- QSOX - Queer women's substance use over time
- The religious experiences of LGBTQA+ Australians - a population survey of experiences of religious and non-religious LGBTQA+ adults
- LGBTQA+ people with disability - Violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of LGBTQA+ people with disability
- Lean on Me - Peer support for mental health among LGBTQ adults in Melbourne
- Pride and Pandemic - The health impacts of COVID-19 on LGBTQ communities
- Opening Doors - Ensuring LGBTIQ-inclusive family, domestic and sexual violence services
- Responsive Pandemic Practice - LGBTIQ+ family violence service innovation in Victoria during COVID-19
- Rainbow Ageing - Health and social wellbeing of older LGBT people in Australia
- LGBTI+ Lives in Crisis - Mental health crisis support for LGBTIQA+ adults
Explore our LGBTIQ health and wellbeing reports
A note on the 'I' in LGBTIQ+:
ARCSHS recognises the complexity of including people with innate variations of sex characteristics, as represented by ‘I’ in the acronym we use. This complexity arises both from the fact that many people with innate variation in sex characteristics do not identify as part of the LGBTIQ+ population, and from the fact that people with innate variations of sex characteristics continue to be underrepresented in LBGTIQ+ research and advocacy efforts. We are careful and deliberate in the use of ‘I’ in our research reports, presentations and other outputs to ensure we do not misrepresent the needs and experiences of people with innate variations of sex characteristics.