Rainbow Realities was launched on Tuesday 9 April at LGBTIQ+ Health Australia's 12th Health in Difference Conference in Canberra by The Hon Mark Butler MP, Minister for Health and Aged Care.
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: 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 Rainbow Realities Report was overseen by LGBTIQ+ Health Australia, with a codesigned input from LHA full member organisations. It was commissioned by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care to inform development of the 10-year LGBTIQA+ Health and Wellbeing Action Plan.
The report is the result of an extraordinary research partnership between between the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS) at La Trobe University, the University of Sydney, the Telethon Kids Institute and the University of Western Australia,