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Disasters are often portrayed as equal opportunity offenders, affecting everyone in the impacted area. Whilst the process of a hazard becoming a disaster will have a degree of impact on every individual or community, these impacts will not be uniform across society. Recognition that gender influences an individual's ability to respond to and recover from a disaster has been established for decades, enjoying a relative influx of funding and interest in the area. However, within the disaster risk reduction and management communities, the concept of gender has not been fully expanded. Within the field “gender” has often been synonymous with cisgender women and girls, whilst men, boys and gender minorities have been largely overlooked. Similarly, the specific needs and capacities of sexual minorities has all but been ignored in broader disaster research and discussions.

On the International Day of Disaster…