Calling It What It Really Is : A Report into Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Gender Diverse, Intersex and Queer Experiences of Domestic and Family Violence / LGBTQI Domestic and Family Violence Interagency and the Centre for Social Research in Health

This research was originally conceived as a follow up to a smaller survey entitled Fair?s Fair. Fair?s Fair (SSDVI, 2006) was a paperbased snapshot survey and the first attempt by community-based researchers to capture data relating to experiences of domestic violence within lesbian and gay relationships in NSW. Very little qualitative and quantitative research in the area of domestic and family violence in LGBTIQ relationships, including lesbians and gay men in same-gender relationships and bisexual, queer, transgender and intersex people in either same-gender or other-gender relationships has been undertaken in Australia or internationally. The LGBTIQ DV Interagency identified a need to understand more about the dynamics of abuse in LGBTIQ relationships. A number of government and non-government