The Latest in LGBTIQ+ Health and Policy is a podcast that brings you the health and well-being hot topic discussions that matter to LGBTIQ+ people.
This episode of The Latest is a nostalgic celebration of lesbian and trans hotness, punk defiance and radical visibility. We’re joined by artist and activist Tiger Salmon, co-founder of Wicked Women, Australia’s first erotic zine by and for lesbians and trans people. First published in 1988, Wicked Women didn’t just disrupt norms, it seduced them, bringing community together, out of the shadows, and improving mental health by creating a powerful sense of connection, self-worth and pride at a time when queer lives were routinely ignored.

Tiger’s recent project, Wicked Reboot, breathes new life into archival images from the zine, bringing their raw, sexy power into the present and inviting a new generation to see themselves reflected in queer history. Through this conversation, we celebrate the radical joy and political power of lesbian and trans desire, and the lasting legacy of those who dared to show it off.

If this podcast has raised any issues you can contact QLife which provides Australia-wide anonymous, LGBTI peer support and referral for people wanting to talk about a range of issues including sexuality, identity, gender, bodies, feelings, or relationships. QLife services are free and include both telephone and webchat support, delivered by trained LGBTIQ+ community members across the country. Call 1800 184 527 or visit qlife.org.au to access webchat.
This podcast was produced by JOY Media – Australia’s Rainbow Community Media Organisation. For more information about JOY’s services, visit joy.org.au/services

The Latest in LGBTIQ+ Health and Policy is a podcast that brings you the health and well-being hot topic discussions that matter to LGBTIQ+ people.
On this episode, we chat to Dr Jane Connory and Dr Shivani Tyagi from the School of Design + Architecture at Swinburne University of Technology to discuss their study “Helping to destigmatise the use of period products for trans, masculine presenting, non-binary and gender diverse (TMNG) consumers through an inclusive communication design framework”.
This study aimed to understand the experiences that trans, masculine presenting, non-binary and gender diverse (TMNG) people who menstruate have with period product packaging and marketing and identified opportunities for improvement through an inclusive communication design framework. We discussed the motivation for the research study as well as the journey of the research itself.
If this podcast has raised any issues you can contact QLife which provides Australia-wide anonymous, LGBTI peer support and referral for people wanting to talk about a range of issues including sexuality, identity, gender, bodies, feelings, or relationships. QLife services are free and include both telephone and webchat support, delivered by trained LGBTIQ+ community members across the country. Call 1800 184 527 or visit qlife.org.au to access webchat.
This podcast was produced by JOY Media – Australia’s Rainbow Community Media Organisation. For more information about JOY’s services, visit joy.org.au/services

The Latest in LGBTIQ+ Health and Policy is a podcast that brings you the health and well-being hot topic discussions that matter to LGBTIQ+ people.
On this episode, we chat to Robyn Lambird, an Australian wheelchair racer and model. Robyn won a bronze medal in the Women’s 100m T34 at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, becoming the first out non-binary athlete to compete at the Paralympics, and won a bronze medal in the Tokyo Paralympics. Robyn was also the first person in a wheelchair to be featured in one of Target’s active-wear campaigns. They have modelled for Tommy Hilfiger, Bonds and ModiBodi.
In chatting with Robyn, we discover their personal journey, their unique challenges as a non-binary athlete with a disability, and how their advocacy work has led to increased visibility for LGBTIQ+ people with a disability in the sporting field.
This podcast was produced by JOY Media – Australia’s Rainbow Community Media Organisation. For more information about JOY’s services, visit joy.org.au/services

Content note: This episode may cover topics you find uncomfortable or triggering. Support is available: QLife provides Australia-wide, anonymous LGBTIQ+ peer support. QLife services are free and available over the phone or on webchat: Call 1800 184 527 or visit qlife.org.au, every day between 3pm and midnight.
The Latest in LGBTIQ+ Health and Policy is a podcast that brings you the health and well-being hot topic discussions that matter to LGBTIQ+ people.
On this episode, we chat to Kai Noonan, Director of Sexual, Domestic and Family Violence Prevention at LGBTIQ+ Health Australia. We also chat with Ben Bjarnesen, an out gay former Queensland police officer who in 2020 founded the LGBTQ Domestic Violence Awareness Foundation.
In this episode, we discuss domestic violence in LGBTQ communities. We’re using the term domestic violence to refer to violence in intimate relationships or between partners or ex-partners. Domestic violence can include any behaviour that is threatening or controlling where one person tries to exert power and control over another.
If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic or family violence or sexual assault, you can call the Rainbow Sexual Domestic and Family Violence Helpline on 1800 487 212 or 1800 RESPECT on 1800 737 732. Say It Out Loud is another amazing resource, encouraging LGBTQ+ communities to get help for their unhealthy relationships. You can visit the Say It Out Loud website to learn more and seek support.
For information about financial abuse, including resources and support that’s available, visit ComBank Next Chapter. If you’re worried about your finances because of intimate partner or family violence or coercive control, you can contact ComBank’s Next Chapter team on 1800 222 387. Even if you’re not with ComBank, this service is available to everyone who needs it no matter who you bank with.
This podcast was produced by JOY Media – Australia’s Rainbow Community Media Organisation. For more information about JOY’s services, visit joy.org.au/services

Content note: This episode may cover topics you find uncomfortable or triggering. Support is available: QLife provides Australia-wide, anonymous LGBTIQ+ peer support. QLife services are free and available over the phone or on webchat: Call 1800 184 527 or visit qlife.org.au, every day between 3pm and midnight.
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On this episode, we chat to Scott, Penguin Keeper at Sea Life Aquarium about their same-sex penguin couple, Sphen & Magic.
Sphen and Magic began developing a strong bond in 2018 and became inseparable before breeding season. As breeding season fast approached, the couple started collecting ‘pebbles’ to create a nest in their spot, and now have more pebbles than any other couple! Swapping duties daily, while one of the parents is doing their best to incubate the egg, the other is patrolling the perimeters of the nest, warding off any potential pebble thieves or over-inquisitive neighbours. The team at Sea Life Sydney fostered a real egg to them from another couple who had two. In October of 2018, the two successfully hatched baby Sphengic! Today, the couple is still going strong and has paired up for a third breeding season!
This podcast was produced by JOY Media – Australia’s Rainbow Community Media Organisation. For more information about JOY’s services, visit joy.org.au/services

Content note: This episode may cover topics you find uncomfortable or triggering. Support is available: QLife provides Australia-wide, anonymous LGBTIQ+ peer support. QLife services are free and available over the phone or on webchat: Call 1800 184 527 or visit qlife.org.au, every day between 3pm and midnight.
The Latest in LGBTIQ+ Health and Policy is a podcast that brings you the health and well-being hot topic discussions that matter to LGBTIQ+ people.
On this episode, we chat with Ada Cheung, the leading specialist consultant Endocrinologist providing patient-centred care in Melbourne as well as rural Australia.
Associate Professor Cheung holds a prestigious Australian Government National Health and Medical Research Council Fellowship, and a Dame Kate Campbell Fellowship to support her medical research. She is on the Board of Directors for the Endocrine Society of Australia and is a policy committee member of the Australian Professional Association of Trans Health. She also established the Trans Health Research Group at The University of Melbourne, aiming to improve the health and wellbeing of transgender, gender diverse, and non-binary people.
This podcast was produced by JOY Media – Australia’s Rainbow Community Media Organisation. For more information about JOY’s services, visit joy.org.au/services

Content note: This episode may cover topics you find uncomfortable or triggering. Support is available: QLife provides Australia-wide, anonymous LGBTIQ+ peer support. QLife services are free and available over the phone or on webchat: Call 1800 184 527 or visit qlife.org.au, every day between 3pm and midnight.
The Latest in LGBTIQ+ Health and Policy is a podcast that brings you the health and well-being hot topic discussions that matter to LGBTIQ+ people.
On this episode, we chat with Natasha Stretton and Lily Hayward who are part of the Walkern Katatdjin project team at Telethon Kids Institute, based in Western Australia.
Natasha is a Research Support Officer, with a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Population Health, and Human Geography and Planning. Lily is a Noongar Yorga, a Research Assistant at Telethon Kids and is studying a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Linguistics. They both joined The Latest to discuss the importance of the national research project, Walkern Katatdjin, which aims to understand and promote the mental health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTQA+ young people.
This podcast was produced by JOY Media – Australia’s Rainbow Community Media Organisation. For more information about JOY’s services, visit joy.org.au/services

Content note: This episode may cover topics you find uncomfortable or triggering. Support is available: QLife provides Australia-wide, anonymous LGBTIQ+ peer support. QLife services are free and available over the phone or on webchat: Call 1800 184 527 or visit qlife.org.au, every day between 3pm and midnight.
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On this episode, we chat with Anthony Venn Brown, founder of Freedom2b and founder and CEO of Ambassadors and Bridge Builders International.
Anthony had previously been a leader in the Assemblies of God and a high-profile preacher in Australian churches. He’s also authored best seller autobiography A Life of Unlearning – a preacher’s struggle with his homosexuality, church and faith. Anthony joined us to discuss his book, as well as advocating for the LGBTIQ+ community within faith spaces.
This podcast was produced by JOY Media – Australia’s Rainbow Community Media Organisation. For more information about JOYs services, visit joy.org.au/services

Content note: This episode may cover topics you find uncomfortable or triggering. Support is available: QLife provides Australia-wide, anonymous LGBTIQ+ peer support. QLife services are free and available over the phone or on webchat: Call 1800 184 527 or visit qlife.org.au, every day between 3pm and midnight.
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On this episode, we chat with Kathryn Gill, Australian soccer player and the Co-Chief Executive Officer of Professional Footballers Australia. Kathryn became the first female to be appointed to the PFA Executive Committee in 2014.
We talk about Kathryn’s career, her work as Director of Pride Cup, as well as legislation and guidelines informing trans inclusion in sport.
This podcast was produced by JOY Media – Australia’s Rainbow Community Media Organisation. For more information about JOYs services, visit joy.org.au/services

Content note: This episode may cover topics you find uncomfortable or triggering. Support is available: QLife provides Australia-wide, anonymous LGBTIQ+ peer support. QLife services are free and available over the phone or on webchat: Call 1800 184 527 or visit qlife.org.au, every day between 3pm and midnight.
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On this episode, we chat with Ed Davies, the award-winning author of stories of men in love – stories of hope, found family and guys next door getting their modern fairy tale endings.
Ed joins Triana Butler to explore the importance of representation and diverse stories, and why fantasy and escapism are unique ways to encourage good health and wellbeing.
This podcast was produced by JOY Media – Australia’s Rainbow Community Media Organisation. For more information about JOYs services, visit joy.org.au/services

Content note: This episode may cover topics you find uncomfortable or triggering. Support is available: QLife provides Australia-wide, anonymous LGBTIQ+ peer support. QLife services are free and available over the phone or on webchat: Call 1800 184 527 or visit qlife.org.au, every day between 3pm and midnight.
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On this episode, we chat with Maria Thattil, Miss Universe Australia 2020, contestant on I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, media personality, writer, speaker, and digital creator. Maria joins us on The Latest to talk to host Triana about bisexual representation and advocacy as well as her recently released book Unbounded.
The two delve into Maria’s past, her family life, and why she felt so empowered to come out publically. They discuss the challenges facing the bisexual community and what steps the individual can take to advocate for change even if that’s just amongst their personal circles of influence.
This podcast was produced by JOY Media – Australia’s Rainbow Community Media Organisation. For more information about JOYs services, visit joy.org.au/services

Content note: This episode may cover topics you find uncomfortable or triggering. Support is available: QLife provides Australia-wide, anonymous LGBTIQ+ peer support. QLife services are free and available over the phone or on webchat: Call 1800 184 527 or visit qlife.org.au, every day between 3pm and midnight.
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On this episode, we chat with Rev. Dr Josephine Inkpin, a minister in the Uniting Church of Australia and the first openly trans person inducted into a mainstream Australian church. She leads the Pitt Street Uniting Church in Sydney, a congregation notable for its affirmation of LGBTIQA+ people and focus on social justice. Dr Inkpin holds a PhD in theology from Durham University, taught history and theology at Oxford University and was an ordained Anglican priest in the Church of England and the Anglican Church of Australia for nearly 34 years.
Josephine shares her wisdom on the intersection between faith and LGBTQ+ community. She discusses the changes happening within the church, overcoming barriers as a trans woman, and her 30 year relationship with wife Penny.
This podcast was produced by JOY Media – Australia’s Rainbow Community Media Organisation. For more information about JOYs services, visit joy.org.au/services

Content note: This episode may cover topics you find uncomfortable or triggering. Support is available: QLife provides Australia-wide, anonymous LGBTIQ+ peer support. QLife services are free and available over the phone or on webchat: Call 1800 184 527 or visit qlife.org.au, every day between 3pm and midnight.
The Latest in LGBTIQ+ Health and Policy is a podcast that brings you the health and wellbeing hot topic discussions that matter to LGBTIQ+ people.
On this episode, we chat with Jelly O’Shea, the Community and Communications Manager for Intersex Aotearoa. She also holds an executive role on the IPSA (Intersex Peer Support Australia) Board, among other positions.
Jelly shares details on her work with intersex advocacy. She discusses issues related to the intersex community, discusses medicine and health policies, cultural impact, and much more.
This podcast was produced by JOY Media – Australia’s Rainbow Community Media Organisation. For more information about JOYs services, visit joy.org.au/services

Content note: This episode will be discussing suicide, suicidality and mental health. Support is available: QLife provides Australia-wide, anonymous LGBTIQ+ peer support. QLife services are free and available over the phone or on webchat: Call 1800 184 527 or visit qlife.org.au, every day between 3pm and midnight
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The National Suicide Prevention Office is a new branch within the National Mental Health Commission – with a dedicated team responsible for working with those with lived and living experience of suicidality to develop a National Suicide Prevention Strategy, setting priorities for suicide prevention research and knowledge sharing around Australia, and leading the development of a national outcomes framework for suicide prevention.
On this episode of The Latest, Triana is joined by the head of the National Suicide Prevention Office, Dr Michael Gardner.  Dr Gardner has extensive experience in government, academic and in-community service provisions in mental health and suicide prevention, and his work is also heavily informed by his own lived experience of suicidality.
Dr Gardner speaks about his work, this new division, as well as the National Suicide Prevention Strategy – and how it’s focussing on suicide and suicidality within the LGBTQIA+ community.
This podcast was produced by JOY Media – Australia’s Rainbow Community Media Organisation. For more information about JOYs services, visit joy.org.au/services

NOTE: A transcript of this episode can be found HERE
The Latest in LGBTIQ+ Health and Policy is a podcast that brings you the health and wellbeing hot topic discussions that matter to LGBTIQ+ people.
In December the Australian Research Centre in Sex Health and Society or ARCSHS, and the Living with Disability Research Centre at La Trobe University, released a report entitled “Violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of LGBTQA+ people with disability: a secondary analysis of data from two national surveys”. The report is a sobering reminder of the significant challenges and disparities that LGBTQA+ people with disability experience, especially when other intersections of marginalisation are considered.
On this episode of The Latest, host Triana Butler is joined by Associate Professor, Adam Bourne (he/him), the Acting Director of ARCSHS, and Margherita Coppolino (she/her), a disability and inclusion consultant.
This podcast episode explores themes and issues that may cause distress. If this episode raises any issues, you can contact QLife which provides Australia-wide anonymous, LGBTIQ+ peer support. QLife services are free and available over the phone or on webchat: call 1800 184 527 or visit qlife.org.au.
Alternatively, you can contact the Blue Knot National Counselling and Referral Service for support on issues surrounding the Disability Royal Commission on 1800 421 468 or visit blueknot.org.au.
This podcast was produced by JOY Media – Australia’s Rainbow Community Media Organisation. For more information about JOYs services, visit joy.org.au/services

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Mon Schafter (they/them) is a Walkley Award-winning journalist, producer and presenter who has told countless stories for ABC TV’s 7:30 and Hungry Beast, and a wide range of documentary projects. They are the content lead for the ABCQueer platform and also a non-executive director of LHA member Twenty10, who provide support for young LGBTIQA+ people in New South Wales.
If this episode raises any issues for you, or if you need any support across the holiday season or any time, you can contact QLife 1800 184 527 or visit qlife.org.au.
The episode also discusses LGBTQIA+ Conversion Practices – if you need support, you can find resourses and support services at abbi.org.au/conversion-therapy
This podcast was produced by JOY Media – Australia’s Rainbow Community Media Organisation.

The Latest in LGBTIQ+ Health and Policy is a podcast that brings you the health and wellbeing hot topic discussions that matter to LGBTIQ+ people.
Pride and Pandemic is a study conducted by the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, in conjunction with LGBTIQ+ Health Australia, exploring the experiences of the LGBTIQ+ community during the pandemic. It will explore mental health and wellbeing impacts, and personal, interpersonal and community strategies to mitigate these impacts.
This podcast was produced by JOY Media – Australia’s Rainbow Community Media Organisation.

The Latest in LGBTIQ+ Health and Policy is a podcast that brings you the health and wellbeing hot topic discussions that matter to LGBTIQ+ people.
29 August was 100 days since the 2022 Federal Election and the start of the new Albanese Labor government. In this special episode, we have gathered a panel of people from the organisations that partnered to bring you the LGBTIQ+ Federal Election Forum: Matthew Phillips (he/they) Engagement Director of Equality Australia; Cass Best (they/them) a board member at BlaQ Aboriginal Corporation; James Zanotto (he/him) Policy, Research and Communications Director at LGBTIQ+ Health Australia; Morgan Carpenter (he/him) Executive Director of Intersex Human Rights Australia; and Darryl O’Donnell (he/him) CEO of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations.
 
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Dr Ruth McNair has been a general practitioner for nearly 30 years, working in Melbourne and the Northern Territory.
She has a PhD in lesbian and bisexual women’s health, and has clinical interests in lesbian and bisexual women’s health, fertility and pregnancy care, and the health of trans and gender diverse people.
An Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne, Dr McNair is an active voice in LGBTIQ+ policy and community development.
Host Triana and Dr McNair talk about why a focus on LGBTIQ+ communities’ health and wellbeing is so important, trends in the health needs of our communities, and what general practitioners can do to provide safe and appropriate care.

This podcast was produced by JOY – Australia’s Rainbow Community Media Organisation. 

In this episode of The Latest in LGBTIQ+ Health and Policy, you’ll meet George Ray, and his mother Roslyn.
LGBTIQ+ Health Australia CEO, Nicky Bath, met them both at the 2022 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, where George marched for the first time.
He’s only in his teens, but his strong pride in who he is, blew Nicky away.
Our host, Triana Butler, chats to George about being his authentic self, a Wear It Purple ambassador as well as supporting others in the LGBTQIA+ community.

This podcast was produced by JOY – Australia’s Rainbow Community Media Organisation.