10.4225/03/590bfd60bd261 Murray Couch Murray Couch Hunter Mulcare Hunter Mulcare Marian Pitts Marian Pitts Anthony Smith Anthony Smith Anne Mitchell Anne Mitchell The religious affiliation of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex Australians: a report from the private lives survey Monash University 2017 1959.1/482379 Surveys Statistics journal article 1039-4788 Christianity Religion Homosexuality Australia Sex role Lesbianism Demography monash:64135 2017-05-05 04:19:43 Journal contribution https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/journal_contribution/The_religious_affiliation_of_gay_lesbian_bisexual_transgender_and_intersex_Australians_a_report_from_the_private_lives_survey/4976042 The authors find that most non-heterosexual people who were brought up as Christian have left the faith of their childhood. However this is not true of those brought up as Orthodox Christians and is more likely to be true of lesbians than it is of gay or bisexual men. While most of those who have left their faith describe themselves as having no religion, a proportion have adopted world religions or alternative spiritualities. This is particularly true of bisexual women, a small number of whom have embraced Wicca. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s