Key Statistics
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42%
of LGBTIQ+ people hide their sexuality or gender identity at social and community events.
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47%
of people who are gay or lesbian have experienced workplace sexual harassment in the past five years.
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60%
of young LGBTQ+ people aged between 14-21 years old had felt unsafe at secondary school.
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2x
LGBTIQA+ employees are twice as likely to be victims of workplace discrimination as their non-LGBTIQA+ colleagues.
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80%
have witnessed or experienced homophobia in sport with homophobic language the most common.
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1 in 4
Australians in the workplace don't ever see themselves becoming an ally to LGBTIQA+ communities.
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2.5x
Compared to the general population, LGBTIQ people are two and a half times more likely to have been diagnosed or treated for a mental health condition in the past 12 months.
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75%
believe an openly gay person would not be very safe as a spectator at a sporting event.
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3%
of the population identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual. This figure is higher among people younger than 25 in Australia — rising to 4% for male and around 7% for female.
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1%
Up to 1% of people identify as transgender or gender diverse.
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1.7%
Up to 1.7% of the population are intersex or have an intersex variation.
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63%
of transgender, gender diverse and non-binary people experience homelessness compared to cisgender people (37%).
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16%
of workers who identify as bisexual are out to everyone with whom they work.
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49%
Nearly half of Australian sporting clubs involved in a 2020 Monash University and VicHealth study still believe being gay is wrong or unnatural.
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38%
Should the law be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry?
Nearly 40% of eligible Australians (almost 5 million) voted “no” in Australia’s marriage postal survey in 2017.
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