1
Kimberlé Crenshaw, On Intersectionality: Essential Writings (New Press, 2017).
2
David B Rhodes and Matt Byrne, ‘Embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQ+ issues in
primary initial teacher education programs’ (2021) 9(2) Social Inclusion 30–31.
3
From the total 91% of respondents who had attended LGBTIQ+ settings and spaces in the last three
years, 71% also reported experiencing microaggressions in these spaces and 40% felt that they
experienced discrimination specifically because of their skin colour, reflecting how these spaces do not
always provide safety for community members. See Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Budi Sudarto and Judy
Tang, Navigating Intersectionality: Multicultural and Multifaith LGBTIQ+ Victorians Talk about Discrimination
and Affirmation (Report, Australian GLBTIQ+ Multicultural Council, 2021) 49–50
<https://www.agmc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/AGMC_ReportA4P_NIR_Web18may2021.pdf>.
4
This is particularly important where LGBTQIA+ individuals experience strains on personal relationships
and connections to culture due to expectations around sexuality from family, friends, or community.
See David Mejia-Canales and William Leonard, Something for them: Meeting the support needs of same
sex attracted and sex and gender diverse (SSASGD) young people who are recently arrived, refugees or
asylum seekers (Monograph Series No 107, La Trobe University, 2016) 14-9
<http://www.lgbtiqintersect.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/somethingforthem.pdf>.
5
See, eg, Danielle Murray et al, ‘High levels of engagement with testing for HIV and sexually
transmissible infection among gay Asian men in Sydney and Melbourne: an observational study’ (2020)
17(2) Sexual Health 126; David Mejia-Canales and William Leonard, Something for them: Meeting the
support needs of same sex attracted and sex and gender diverse (SSASGD) young people who are recently
arrived, refugees or asylum seekers (Monograph Series No 107, La Trobe University, 2016)
<http://www.lgbtiqintersect.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/somethingforthem.pdf>.
6
Ruth McNair, ‘A guide to sensitive care for lesbian, gay, and bisexual people attending general practice’
(Guide, The University of Melbourne, 2012)
<https://www.rainbowhealthvic.org.au/media/pages/research-resources/a-guide-to-sensitive-care-forlesbian-gay-and-bisexual-people-attending-general-practice/464311362-1605661768/a-guide-tosensitive-care-for-lesbian-gay-and-bisexual-people-attending-general-practice.pdf>.
7
See generally Elizabeth A McConnell et al, ‘Multiple Minority Stress and LGBT Community Resilience
among Sexual Minority Men’ (2018) 5(1) Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity 1.
8
More information on how the needs of LGBTIQ+ refugees differ from the general refugee cohort with
respect to accessing not only health care, but also social support, employment and housing support,
can be found in the 2020 joint report by the Migration Council of Australia and the Forcibly Displaced
People Network. See Migration Council of Australia and Forcibly Displaced People Network, Gender
Responsive Settlement: Broader Learnings from LGBTIQ+ Refugees (Report, 2020)
<https://fdpn964079271.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/lgbtiq-refugees-report-v2-mob.pdf>.
9
Adam Hill et al, Writing Themselves In 4: The health and wellbeing of LGBTQA+ young people in Australia
(National Report, February 2021) 158–66
<https://www.latrobe.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/1198945/Writing-Themselves-In-4-Nationalreport.pdf>.
10
See generally Mary Anne Kenny, Nicholas Procter and Carol Grech, Temporary Protection Visas in
Australia: A reform proposal (Policy Brief No 13, June 2022) 6
<https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/sites/kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/files/Policy_Brief_13_Tempor
ary_Protection_Visas_Australia_Reform_Proposal.pdf>; Joint Standing Committee on Migration,
Parliament of Australia, Enabling Australia: Inquiry Into The Migration Treatment of Disability (Report, June
2010) 101 [4.159].
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