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QLife is Australia’s first nationally-oriented counselling and referral service for people of diverse sex, genders and sexualities. QLife provides nation-wide, early intervention, peer supported telephone and web based services to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people of all ages.
QLife enable their communities to work towards their own better health outcomes by providing a place to talk about mental health, relationships, isolation, coming out and a whole host of other concerns.
They bring together and enhance the work of their five state-based partner agencies, based in capital cities across Australia.
Last reviewed: November 2015
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Many people assume that gender is binary; that all people are women or men. However, gender can more accurately be thought of as a colour palette, with many possible shades of identity and subtle expressions of gender far beyond only woman or man.
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The relationships of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) people are diverse and varied. LGBTI people have relationships as spouses, partners, friends, carers, children, parents, neighbours and co-workers and may bring issues in any of these relationship areas to counselling.
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Social conditions for the acceptance of LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) people have improved dramatically in Australia in recent years.
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People are born with many kinds of bodies, and natural differences in sex characteristics are far more common than might be widely recognised. Intersex is an umbrella term for a wide range of natural variations, including genetic, hormonal or physical sex characteristics.
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Families and connection to loved ones are central to the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people just as they are for non-LGBTI people.
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For a long time in Australia, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people have been actively and passively excluded from many aspects of social, cultural, occupational, religious and family life.
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Resilience is the capacity to cope with change and challenges, as well as the ability to bounce back following hardship or during difficult times.
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Bisexual people are attracted to people of multiple genders and these attractions may be fluid over time.
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‘Coming out’ typically refers to acknowledging one’s sexuality or samegender attractions to oneself and disclosing this to others.
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The emergence of the internet as a major part of daily life is swiftly changing avenues of social connection, access to information, doing business and accessing health care services.
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