Rainbow Realities: In-depth analyses of large-scale LGBTQA+ health and wellbeing data in Australia

Rainbow Realities brings together existing findings and new analyses from six large scale 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, these surveys received more than 20,000 responses from all parts of the country.

Lead authors of its important new report will detail key findings of more than 50 new analyses.

Wednesday 7 August 2024 | 1:00pm to 1:45pm AEST

Dr Natalie Amos (she/her) is a Research Fellow with the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS), La Trobe University.

Professor Ashleigh Lin (she/her) is a NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow and Senior Principal Research Fellow at the School of Population and Global Health at The University of Western Australia.

Julie Mooney-Somers (sher/her) is an Associate Professor in Qualitative Research in Health at Sydney Health Ethics (School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney).

Shakara Liddelow-Hunt (they/them) is Research Assistant in the Youth Mental Health Team at the Telethon Kids Institute and PhD student at the University of Western Australia.

Rainbow Realities was overseen by LGBTIQ+ Health Australia and funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care to inform development of the 10-year LGBTIQA+ Health and Wellbeing Action Plan. It was produced as part of a research partnership 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.

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