Deep dive: Experiences of violence, services and healing

We can't afford to start from scratch: Transformative recordings from the contemporary archive

The participation of LGBTIQA+ Sistergirl and Brotherboy communities within feminist and anti-violence movements is not a new development. However, archives are not always available to demonstrate and model the kinds of conversations, language and framing needed to represent LGBTIQASB+ communities within gendered violence and gender equality movements. This series of post presents a curation of key snapshots from an archive of recorded events that are now available online, with additional research and academic literature related to the topic. We present these in the hopes that they may assist workers, organisations and leaders in reflecting and directing greater inclusion, solidarity and partnerships between LGBTIQASB+, women's and broader anti-violence and gender equality organisations in our shared work together.

2023

• 14 mins Findings from NSW survey into LGBTIQA+ experiences of sexual violence (end 33:18)

• 6 mins How mainstream service providers can support help-seeking from LGBTIQASB+ victims and survivors (end 40:31)

• 18 mins LGBTQA+ experiences of healing (end 27:12)

• 4 mins Perception and experiences of support by LGBTQA+ victims and survivors (end 45:03)

2022

• 15 mins Keynote research presentation (end 45:44)

  
  

2021

• Barriers for people recognising domestic violence in LGBTQ communities

2020

• 11 mins Russel Vickery – victim-survivor, cabaret performer ‘my other closet’ (2013) (36:06)

2017

• Family violence against LGBTI people: Insights from people with lived experience

Full recordings

• Australian Human Rights Commission - Equal Identities: Online Launch Recording

• Queering Survival: Reconceptualising healing beyond heteronormative and cisnormative frames 

• ACON Report Launch: Report on LGBTQ+ People’s Experiences and Perceptions of Sexual Violence in NSW 

• Safe + Equal: Transfemme launch - supporting trans women of colour to access specialist family violence services webinar 

• Opening Doors: Ensuring LGBTIQ-inclusive family, domestic and sexual violence services research report 

• ANROWS: responding to sexual violence among trans women of colour in Australia 

• ANROWS: Domestic & family violence in LGBTQ relationships - a discussion on strengthening practice 

Research & Academic literature

2026

• Sexual Violence and Mental Health Among a National Australian Sample of Bisexual and Pansexual Cisgender Women 

• Bystander Intervention & LGBTQ+ Sexual Violence: Findings from two Exploratory Surveys with NSW-Based LGBTQ+ Communities

• LGBTQ+ Homelessness and Sexual Violence 

2025

• Refuge to Recovery for LGBTIQ+ People: Final evaluation report

• Practitioners’ Tight and Loose Strategies to Engage Users of Intimate-Partner Violence in Services for Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer (GBTQ) Men

• Defying Distance: Practitioner Perspectives on the Impact of Telehealth on LGBTIQ + Family Violence Service Access in Regional Australia

•  “We’re not for You”: Primary Care Support Seeking Among LGBTIQA + Individuals Experiencing Intimate-Partner Violence in Western Australia

• Solidarity with IPV Perpetrators as a Challenge to Help-Seeking for LGBTQ + Victim-Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence

• Anti-Queer Violence in Australia: An Intersectional Analysis of Victimization Among LGBTQA+ Adults

• Experiences of Intimate-Partner Violence and Violence from a Family Member During COVID-19 Among LGBTQ Adults in Australia

• LGBTQ+ Adult Sexual Violence Critical Scoping Review: Victimization Risk Factors

• Prevalence and perpetration contexts of sexual violence among cisgender LGBQ+ adults in Australia

• LGBTQ+ Adult Sexual Violence Critical Scoping Review: Insights into Victimization and Perpetration

• Disclosure and Help-Seeking Following Sexual Violence Among Bi+ Women: A Scoping Review

• Affective Barriers to Accessing Professionalized Intimate Partner Violence Services Among LGBTQ People in Australia

• National Survey of LGBTIQA+SB Experiences of Sexual Violence

• National LGBTIQA+ Prevention of Sexual Violence Pilot Projects final report

• Prevalence of Diverse Genders and Sexualities in Australia and Associations With Five Forms of Child Maltreatment and Multi-type Maltreatment

• Prevalence of Sexual Strangulation/Choking Among Australian 18-35 Year-Olds

• “Humiliated and Ashamed, Again and Again”: Regulating Genital Examinations of Children with Innate Variations of Sex Characteristics

2024

• It is “Part of this Larger Tapestry of Anti-queer Experiences”: LGBTQ+ Australians’ Experiences of Street Harassment

• On the Structural Conditions Shaping Implementation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ)-Inclusive Practices Within Intimate Partner Services 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

• Informed, Affirming and Focused: Client Perspectives on the Importance of Specialist LGBTIQ + Family Violence and Other Health Services

• The relationship between suicidality and LGBTQ+ Experiences of Sexual Violence

• Being both: the intersectional experiences of being an LGBTQ+ victim-survivor of sexual violence with disability

• TRANSforming Inclusion Practices: Trans People’s Experiences of Sexual Violence

• Our Community is our Strength: First Nations LGBTQSB+ experiences of sexual violence and reporting

2023

• 'You can’t just … add a bit of rainbow dust': A review of the Clear Space online behaviour change program for GBTQ+ men and non-binary people

• Family Violence Within LGBTQ Communities in Australia: Intersectional Experiences and Associations with Mental Health Outcomes

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

• Indigenous LGBTIQSB + People’s Experiences of Family Violence in Australia

• LGBTQ Victim-Survivors' Experiences and Negotiations of Service Worker and Service System Discrimination

• Experiences of Reporting Family Violence Among LGBTQ + Adults in Australia: Findings from the Private Lives 3 National Survey

• Preferences for Types of Inclusive Family Violence Services Among LGBTQ People in Australia

• Factors associated with experiences of abuse among lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and asexual (LGBTQA+) adults with disability in Australia

• Barriers stopping LGBTI people from accessing LGBTI police liaison officers: analysing interviews with community and police

2022

• LGBTQ+ People's Experiences and Perceptions of Sexual Violence

• Opening Doors: Ensuring LGBTIQ-inclusive family, domestic and sexual violence services research report

• Safe Connection Toowoomba: Connecting and Supporting LGBTQIA+ Communities

• Responsive pandemic practice: LGBTIQ+ family violence service innovation in Victoria during COVID-19

2021

• Trans Women’s Responses to Sexual Violence: Vigilance, Resilience, and Need for Support

• Support Provided by LGBTI Police Liaison Services: An Analysis of a Survey of LGBTIQ People in Australia

2020

• Developing LGBTQ programs for perpetrators and victims/survivors of domestic and family violence

• Crossing the line: Lived experience of sexual violence among trans women of colour from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds in Australia.

2018

• Transgender Domestic Violence: An Analysis of the Transgender Community and Service Provision in Queensland.

Further reading & Resources

• Sexual Violence Pilot Project | 2Spirits & Restorative Yarns

• Risk in Context Trans and Gender Diverse Communities | Safe and Equal

• Interlink: Understanding abuse in relationships for people with intersex variations

• Queer Migrant Project: Manual for liberatory conscious practice for Queer Migrants within the context of DFV in QLD

• Zoe Belle Gender Collective: Practitioner guidelines for responding to the objectification, fetishisation and sexual exploitation of trans women and trans feminine people by cisgender men

• The Loud Way Home: an anthology of writing from LGBTQ+ victim-survivors of sexual violence – Say It Out Loud

• Practice considerations for creating an LGBTIQ-inclusive family violence refuge: Lessons from Rainbow Health Australia's mentoring pilot project

• Engender Equality & Working It Out: LGBTIQA Family Violence Practice Guidelines

• Opening Doors: Ensuring LGBTIQ-inclusive family, domestic and sexual violence services - guide for practitioners

• QC: Practice Guide for Supporting Trans, Gender Diverse and Nonbinary communities experiencing domestic, family and sexual violence

• QC:  Queer Without Fear (updated version)

• Crossing the Line: Practitioner Guidelines for Responding to sexual violence against trans women of colour from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds

• Switchboard Victoria: Tip sheet to help practitioners responding to family violence provide LGBTIQA+ inclusive support

• Safe+Equal Victoria: Supporting LGBTIQA+ people

• Say It Oud Loud: Safety Planning tool