ABSTRACT

Australian public health promotion positions safe sex as a biomedical, heteronormative concept. Consequently, there is a dearth of scholarly research examining queer women and non-binary people’s sexual health in Australia. To fill this knowledge gap, this chapter considers how Australian queer young women and non-binary people understand ‘safe sex’ and conceptualise ‘good’ sexual citizenship. Findings reveal that although queer young people understand heterosexual safe sex, there is little awareness of safer sexual practices between partners who were assigned female at birth. Throughout this chapter it is argued that bigendered, heteronormative sexual scripts shape perceptions of sexual health risk whereby queer young people adopt multiple situation-dependent approaches to safer sex.