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.
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