Even within the normally inclusive LGBTQIA+ community, people with disabilities are often overlooked because of attitudes around disability and sex, but things are changing for the better.
Mr Diederich said establishing personal relationships could be difficult because people were not always able to see past his disability, and this problem was amplified by the small size of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Mr Diederich said it sometimes felt like his identity as a disabled man overpowered his identity as gay.Barriers to inclusion in LGBTQIA+ culture are not unique to disabled Australians looking for romantic partners. Mr Ankney believes the situation is slowly changing as people with disabilities are increasingly included in all areas of life.
Living Proud inclusion officer Jack Meakins, who is deaf, said people with disabilities could sometimes be "desexualised" by others. "But in reality, there's a lot of disabled people out there, and some of them are queer ... [and] a big one we're seeing now is neurodiversity in queerness," he said.
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