“You’d Just Cop Flak From Every Other Dickhead Under the Sun”: Navigating the Tensions of (In)visibility and Hypervisibility in LGBTI Police Liaison Programs in Three Australian States

Dwyer, Angela; Ball, Matthew

doi:10.1177/1043986219894420

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“…Consistent with this, previous studies in the US and Australia have found that the LGBTQ+ community continues to have disproportionately negative experiences with police with the potential to negatively impact on help-seeking for drug-related problems [19,20]. While there are notable examples of initiatives aimed at improving this relationship [21,22], our findings suggest a more concerted effort is required.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 87%

Barriers to help‐seeking among music festival attendees in New South Wales, Australia

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Healey

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Drug and Alcohol Review

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Introduction. Prompt help-seeking behaviour by music festival attendees can reduce risks associated with drug use; however, little is known about perceived barriers to help-seeking when experiencing or witnessing illness at music festivals. We explored potential barriers and their association with festivalgoer characteristics. Methods. We conducted an on-site cross-sectional survey of attendees at New South Wales music festivals in 2019/2020. Perceived barriers to help-seeking in the hypothetical event of the respondent or a friend becoming unwell at the festival were assessed, and regression analyses were conducted to identify characteristics associated with these barriers. Results. Across six festivals, 1229 people were surveyed and four-fifths (83.2%) reported ≥1 barrier: 32.7% fear of getting in trouble with the police, 20.6% not knowing where to find help, 17.2% not knowing how unwell someone might be and 15.3% concern about friends or relatives finding out. In multivariable analyses, people of diverse sexuality and people using drugs that day had greater odds of reporting fear of trouble with the police. People reporting drug use that day had lower odds of reporting not knowing where to find help. Men, gender-diverse people and people using drugs that day had greater odds of reporting concern about friends or relatives finding out. Discussion and Conclusions. Our data substantiate concerns regarding policing strategies and their impact on festivals. Initiatives to support conversations about drugs with friends and families may be best targeted to younger people and those from gender-diverse backgrounds.

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Barriers to help‐seeking among music festival attendees in New South Wales, Australia

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“…Similarly, participants reported that LGBTQ liaison officers were rarely present to mediate their interactions with police. Indeed, these oftentimes solitary officers are often unable to significantly change their colleagues' views towards LGBTQ civilians (see Dwyer & Ball, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Participants who reported explicit forms of police discrimination were either persons of color or transgender, which may reflect the biased policing of both communities of color (Molla, 2021;Majavu, 2020;Murphy et al, 2018) as well as transgender individuals (Dwyer & Ball, 2020;Miles-Johnson, 2021). For example, Yazid, a participant of mixed South and Western-Asian descent, reported witnessing a thinly concealed outburst from one of the officers attending his domestic violence complaint.…”

Section: Law Enforcement Officersmentioning

confidence: 99%

LGBTQ Victim-Survivors' Experiences and Negotiations of Service Worker and Service System Discrimination

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Purpose This study examined the experiences of LGBTQ victim-survivors who sought out support from domestic violence services in Australia. While the literature on intimate partner violence (IPV) is increasingly focused on improving LGBTQ inclusivity and cultural safety within both service and policy contexts, the experiences of LGBTQ victim-survivors themselves are often absent from these discussions. Consequently, little is understood about how LGBTQ victim-survivors navigate and negotiate service contexts that are frequently optimized for cisgender, heterosexual victim-survivors. Methods Structured life history interviews were conducted with (N = 29) LGBTQ victim-survivors aged 19–79 years of age who had recent (< 2 years) or ongoing experiences of IPV. Results LGBTQ victim-survivors' help-seeking behaviors are undertaken against the backdrop of a highly variegated service landscape. Individual service organizations and service workers' attitudes towards LGBTQ clients can run the gamut from inclusive and culturally sensitive to heterosexist and exclusionary, with little outward distinction between such. While participants within our study demonstrated the ability to deftly navigate or minimize the incidence of such treatment, there were clear limits to the extent that deploying such strategies would successfully enable victim-survivors to access service support. The additional psychological costs of cautiously navigating service systems were also not insubstantial and contributed significantly to both service disengagement and poorer service outcomes. Conclusions Efforts to expand service capabilities to improve service uptake and service outcomes for LGBTQ victim-survivors must be attentive to, and address the impact of anticipated and experienced discrimination on service provision.

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“…By not gathering or reporting SOGI data, the authors avoided potentially outing LGBTQ participants who may be one of few out LGBTQ people in their sample. As explained by Dwyer and Ball (2020), navigating visibility is a safety issue:…”

Section: Intersectional Representation Of Lgbtq Topics and Individualsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Queering Agricultural Education Research: Challenges and Strategies for Advancing Inclusion

Murray¹

2020

JAE

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For more than 30 years, the field of agricultural education has grappled with complex questions of how to recruit, support, retain, and teach diverse youth. Yet the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community is rarely included in published agricultural education research. This philosophical paper addresses the immediate need for understanding more about LGBTQ youth in agricultural education, while identifying opportunities and specific strategies to shift the culture of agricultural education research towards inclusion. Queer theory is leveraged to reveal a nascent body of literature related to sexuality in 4-H and school-based agricultural education. LGBTQ youth in agricultural education face significant challenges: educators ill prepared to meet their needs, a lack of policies to inform decision making, active homophobia from teachers and peers, among others. Agricultural education researchers face methodological and disciplinary barriers to conducting LGBTQ research. Authors employ unique tacticsto conduct and disseminate their work. Understanding these strategies and analyzing the conditions that necessitate their use contributes to the disciplinary knowledge of how to conduct inclusive research – not just for LGBTQ youth – but for the profession writ large.

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“You’d Just Cop Flak From Every Other Dickhead Under the Sun”: Navigating the Tensions of (In)visibility and Hypervisibility in LGBTI Police Liaison Programs in Three Australian States

Cited by 9 publications

References 29 publications

Barriers to help‐seeking among music festival attendees in New South Wales, Australia

Barriers to help‐seeking among music festival attendees in New South Wales, Australia

LGBTQ Victim-Survivors' Experiences and Negotiations of Service Worker and Service System Discrimination

Queering Agricultural Education Research: Challenges and Strategies for Advancing Inclusion

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