The National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children 2022-2032 recognises that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer and asexual (“LGBTIQA+”) people experience disproportionately high rates of domestic, family, and sexual violence. As outlined in Rainbow Health Australia’s Pride in Prevention: Evidence Guide and Our Watch’s Change the story, there is significant overlap between the drivers of violence against women and LGBTIQA+ people, including rigid gender norms, socially dominant forms of masculinity, heteronormativity and cisnormativity.
Through funding received from the Commonwealth Government, Our Watch and Rainbow Health Australia have partnered to develop a new national primary prevention framework. The aim of this new framework will be to support more organisations to understand and take action to prevent gender-based violence against LGBTIQA+ people and communities.

This presentation reflects on the power of partnerships between prevention of violence against women organisations and LGBTIQA+ organisations, and the importance of mutually reinforcing work across sectors to prevent all forms of gender-based violence. This presentation also provides an update on our ‘work in progress’ on the new framework, our consultation methods, and intentions for the project. We provide insight into this new partnership which connects two diverse sectors on a national level, echoing the conference theme: our work to end gender-based violence is stronger together.

Key Learnings:

1. Learnings from a partnership between a national prevention of violence against women organisation and a LGBTIQA+ organisation.

2. Information about the new national LGBTIQA+ prevention framework and our work in progress on this project.

3. How the new national LGBTIQA+ primary prevention framework will be relevant to DSFV response and prevention practitioners.