Pride in Respect Podcast
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<p>Welcome to the Pride and Respect Podcast where we discuss the difficult topic of family, domestic, sexual and intimate partner violence within LGBTIQA+ communities.</p><p>Each episode we bring you genuine stories of lived experience and share empowering insights and advice from sector specialists.</p>
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June 24, 2026
Breaking the Silence - LGBTIQA+ Communities, Visibility and Change
<p>In the final episode of season one of the Pride in Respect Podcast, host Dr Jack Farrugia is joined by Deb and Alicia Gibbs for a powerful conversation about breaking the silence around family, domestic, intimate partner and sexual violence in LGBTIQA+ communities.</p><p>Deb is an FDV lived experience advocate and a proud queer person of colour. She shares reflections on intimate partner violence, the difficulty of speaking out, and how shame, racism, cultural expectations, religion, internalised homophobia and fear of coming out can create layers of silence and isolation.</p><p>Alicia Gibbs is a queer woman and Manager of Preventing Violence Together at the Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing. She brings insight into primary prevention, gender-based violence & stereotypes, heteronormativity and cisnormativity, and how services, systems and communities can better recognise and respond to violence in LGBTIQA+ relationships.</p><p>Together, they explore why violence in queer relationships can be hard to name, disclose or believe, especially when communities feel pressure to protect themselves from further stigma. They discuss the importance of showing both healthy queer relationships and the realities of abuse, while recognising that silence can protect people who use violence and leave victim survivors feeling alone.</p><p>This episode is a hopeful and honest conversation about visibility, intersectionality, prevention, service change and the responsibility we all share to listen, believe, challenge harmful assumptions and keep the conversation going.</p><p><strong>In this episode, we discuss:</strong></p><ul><li>Why silence around violence in LGBTIQA+ communities can delay recognition and how shared friendship groups and respected community roles can make disclosure harder</li><li>How racism, culture, religion, internalised homophobia & stereotypes can shape disclosure and obscure abuse in queer relationships</li><li>The pressure to present queer relationships as perfect or “model” relationships</li><li>Tech-facilitated abuse, tracking and control disguised as care or safety</li><li>What primary prevention can look like through inclusive forms, language, education, systems, inclusive policies and structural change</li><li>The importance of believing victim survivors and helping people feel less alone</li></ul><p><strong>If you are in immediate danger, call 000.</strong></p><p>For 24/7 family, domestic and sexual violence counselling and support, contact 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732.</p><p>LGBTIQA+ specialist FDV support is available through the Rainbow Sexual, Domestic and Family Violence Helpline on 1800 497 212.</p><p>In Western Australia, you can contact the Pride in Respect Specialist FDV Support Service on 0481 080 201.</p><p>For more information, resources and support links, visit <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://prideandrespect.org.au">prideandrespect.org.au</a>.</p><p><strong>About Pride in Respect</strong></p><p>Pride in Respect is a community partnership between Living Proud, GRAI, Transfolk WA and WAAC, generously funded by the Department of Communities.</p><p>This podcast was proudly produced by Pineapple Fingers. Visit <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://pineapplefingers.com.au">pineapplefingers.com.au</a> for more information.</p><p>If this conversation was meaningful to you, please subscribe, share the episode, or pass it on to someone who may need support.</p><p>The Pride in Respect podcast is recorded on Whadjuk Noongar boodja. We acknowledge and pay our respects to the Whadjuk people of the Noongar Nation and their Elders past and present as the traditional custodians of this land. We also honour Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQA+ people, including Brotherboys, Sistergirls and trans mob, and recognise their resilience, strength and deep connection to Country.</p>
June 10, 2026
Post-Separation Abuse - Coercive Control After Leaving
<p>In this episode of the Pride in Respect Podcast, host Dr Jack Farrugia is joined by Julia and Tori Cooke for a powerful conversation about post-separation abuse and the ways coercive control can continue after a relationship has ended.</p><p>Julia, a member of the LGBTIQA+ community, shares her lived experience of long-term coercive control, family violence and the ongoing impacts of abuse after separation. Her story highlights how leaving does not always mean immediate safety, and how people using violence may continue to intimidate, monitor, threaten, isolate or manipulate victim-survivors long after the relationship is over.</p><p>Tori Cooke, a family violence consultant, clinical supervisor, trainer and educator, brings deep sector insight into how coercive control works, why it can be so difficult to recognise, and why community responses matter. She explains how post-separation abuse can include stalking, surveillance, reputation damage, misuse of systems, threats, financial control, and using children or parenting arrangements as a way to maintain power.</p><p>Together, this conversation challenges the idea that leaving is simple or that safety automatically begins once a relationship ends. Julia and Tori also explore how identity, stigma, small-town visibility and assumptions about sexuality can be used as tools of control in LGBTIQA+ contexts.</p><p>This is a confronting but important episode about believing victim-survivors, recognising patterns of abuse, holding people who use violence accountable, and supporting people with compassion, patience and trust.</p><p><strong>In this episode, we discuss:</strong></p><ul><li>What post-separation abuse is and how it connects to coercive control</li><li>Why leaving an abusive relationship does not always mean immediate safety</li><li>How abuse can continue through threats, intimidation, monitoring and reputation damage</li><li>How children and parenting arrangements can be used as tools of control</li><li>The impact of small-town visibility, sexuality, stigma and being outed</li><li>Why people may not recognise coercive control while they are experiencing it</li><li>Why it is not the victim survivor’s responsibility to change the person using violence</li><li>What communities and services can do to respond with accountability and care</li></ul><p><strong>If you are in immediate danger, call 000.</strong></p><p>For 24/7 family, domestic and sexual violence counselling and support, contact 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732.</p><p>LGBTIQA+ specialist FDV support is available through the Rainbow Sexual, Domestic and Family Violence Helpline on 1800 497 212.</p><p>In Western Australia, you can contact the Pride in Respect Specialist FDV Support Service on 0481 080 201.</p><p>For more information, resources and support links, visit <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://prideandrespect.org.au">prideandrespect.org.au</a>.</p><p><strong>About Pride in Respect</strong></p><p>Pride in Respect is a community partnership between Living Proud, GRAI, Transfolk WA and WAAC, generously funded by the Department of Communities.</p><p>This podcast was proudly produced by Pineapple Fingers. Visit <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://pineapplefingers.com.au">pineapplefingers.com.au</a> for more information.</p><p>If this conversation was meaningful to you, please subscribe, share the episode, or pass it on to someone who may need support.</p><p>The Pride in Respect podcast is recorded on Whadjuk Noongar boodja. We acknowledge and pay our respects to the Whadjuk people of the Noongar Nation and their Elders past and present as the traditional custodians of this land. We also honour Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQA+ people, including Brotherboys, Sistergirls and trans mob, and recognise their resilience, strength and deep connection to Country.</p>
May 27, 2026
Queer Young People, Family Violence and Healthy Relationships
<p>In this episode of the Pride in Respect Podcast, host Dr Jack Farrugia is joined by Marcus Roberts and Dani Wright-Toussaint for a thoughtful conversation about LGBTIQA+ young people’s experiences of family violence, intimate partner violence, growing up, coming out and learning what safe relationships can look like.</p><p>Marcus is the Principal Counsellor in WAAC’s Freedom Counselling Program, supporting LGBTIQA+ young people across WA. Dani is the Youth Services Manager for Mental Health Programs at Perth Inner City Youth Service, supporting young people who have experienced FDV/IPV, homelessness and mental health challenges.</p><p>Together, they explore how family violence can show up for LGBTIQA+ young people, including rejection, eviction from home, being denied gender-affirming care, financial control, isolation, and the impact of homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, cisnormativity and heteronormativity within families and relationships.</p><p>The conversation also looks at the blurry line between care, control and harm. For young people, it can be difficult to identify when parental concern or behaviour becomes controlling or unsafe, especially when framed as love, protection or “wanting what's best”. They speak about how healthy relationships are learned, why queer young people need affirming spaces and role models, and how families can create safer environments by listening, learning, and not placing the burden of education on young people.</p><p>This episode is a compassionate and practical discussion about safety, autonomy, connection and the importance of helping LGBTIQA+ young people feel seen, respected and supported.</p><p><strong>In this episode, we discuss:</strong></p><ul><li>How family violence can affect LGBTIQA+ young people</li><li>The impacts of rejection, homelessness, unsafe family environments and how power and control can be disguised as love or protection</li><li>Control around gender-affirming care, medication, money and disclosure</li><li>Why healthy relationship education matters for queer young people, peer connection and affirming role models</li><li>How homophobia, biphobia, transphobia and cisnormativity shape family dynamics</li><li>How families can create safer environments for young people to come out and be themselves, and why parents, carers and adults need to do their own learning</li></ul><p><strong>If you are in immediate danger, call 000.</strong></p><p>For 24/7 family, domestic and sexual violence counselling and support, contact 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732.</p><p>LGBTIQA+ specialist FDV support is available through the Rainbow Sexual, Domestic and Family Violence Helpline on 1800 497 212.</p><p>In Western Australia, you can contact the Pride and Respect Specialist FDV Support Service on 0481 080 201.</p><p>For more information, resources and support links, visit <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://prideandrespect.org.au">prideandrespect.org.au</a>.</p><p><strong>About Pride in Respect</strong></p><p>Pride and Respect is a community partnership between Living Proud, GRAI, Transfolk WA and WAAC, generously funded by the Department of Communities.</p><p>This podcast was proudly produced by Pineapple Fingers. Visit <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://pineapplefingers.com.au">pineapplefingers.com.au</a> for more information.</p><p>If this conversation was meaningful to you, please subscribe, share the episode, or pass it on to someone who may need support.</p><p>The Pride in Respect podcast is recorded on Whadjuk Noongar boodja. We acknowledge and pay our respects to the Whadjuk people of the Noongar Nation and their Elders past and present as the traditional custodians of this land. We also honour Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQA+ people, including Brotherboys, Sistergirls and trans mob, and recognise their resilience, strength and deep connection to Country.</p>
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<p>Welcome to the Pride and Respect Podcast where we discuss the difficult topic of family, domestic, sexual and intimate partner violence within LGBTIQA+ communities.</p><p>Each episode we bring you genuine stories of lived experience and share empowering insights and advice from sector specialists.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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