Over 80 Percent Of LGBTQA+ Young People Experience High Levels Of Psychological Distress, New Aussie Survey Finds
The largest national survey on the wellbeing of LGBTQA+ young people in Australia has been released. It proves we still have a long road ahead.
3 February 2021
3 February 2021
I spent most of high school in the closet. I had very little in the ways of queer friends or icons to look up to, let alone a queer community. I got a majority of my queer education from Tumblr, while sex ed classes at school were busy teaching the girls how to not get pregant and the guys how to deal with the awkward changes happening to their body.
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Jordi Kerr says this year feels like itâs been one devastating hit after another for the LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex and asexual) community.
âThe year started with the debate around the religious discrimination bill and that caused a lot of harm,â says Mx Kerr, who identifies as non-binary (neither male or female) and uses the pronouns they/them and the non-gender specific honorific Mx.