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Mapping Same-Sex Couple Family Households In Australia, Andrew Gorman-Murray, Christopher Brennan-Horley, Kirsten Mclean, Gordon Waitt, Christopher Gibson
Mapping Same-Sex Couple Family Households In Australia, Andrew Gorman-Murray, Christopher Brennan-Horley, Kirsten Mclean, Gordon Waitt, Christopher Gibson
Christopher R Brennan-Horley
The map (1:1,218,987) accompanying this report is the first to depict the distribution of same-sex couple family households across Australia. The map and the report contribute to emerging scholarship combining critical geographies of sexualities with quantitative techniques and GIS in order to advance the political claims of sexual minorities. The data were collected through the 2006 Census and obtained via consultation with the Australian Bureau of Statistics. These data included the number of same-sex couple family households for all Statistical Divisions across Australia and for Statistical Sub-Divisions within metropolitan capital cities. Geographical concentrations of same-sex couple family households were determined …