ACT LGBTIQA+ Communities Survey
Summary
The Office of LGBTIQA Affairs surveyed ACT LGBTIQA+ communities in 2025 and 2022 to better understand their experiences.
In 2025, 330 people filled out the LGBTIQA+ Communities Survey.
The survey showed that LGBTIQA+ communities in the ACT are very diverse, including:
- 51% described their gender as being a woman, 27% as a man and 16% as non-binary
- 30% of survey participants were transgender or gender diverse
- 1.2% of survey participants were born with variations in sex characteristics
- the most common sexualities reported were queer (31%), lesbian (30%), gay (25%), bisexual (22%), pansexual (14%), and asexual (8%)
- 4% of survey participants were Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
- 54% of survey participants had a disability or a chronic health condition
- 16% of survey participants had migration experience
- 32% of survey participants had children or dependants.
Insights from the 2025 survey
Diverse communities
The community reported improvement in feelings of inclusion and increased awareness of the Office of LGBTIQA+ Affairs. They reported positive feelings about our work to achieve equality.
Harmful experiences
- LGBTIQA+ discrimination is still very common and often happens along with racism, sexism, and ableism.
- Experiences of gender-based violence are common: 227 survey participants experienced at least one form of gender-based violence.
- Transgender and gender diverse people, people of colour, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people with disability or chronic health conditions reported more harmful experiences than the broader sample.
Calls for change
The survey shows that the community wants:
- legal protections to be stronger
- better access to health services
- better support for trans and gender diverse people
- sustainable funding for LGBTIQA+ peer-led organisations
- strong public commitment to LGBTIQA+ equality.