Research highlights ‘shockingly disproportionate harms’ affecting LGBTQ people of color due to combination of racism, anti-LGBTQ discrimination
The research was released Wednesday by a coalition of four LGBTQ rights organizations: the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), the National Black Justice Coalition, the National LGBTQ Task Force, and Freedom for all Americans, a bipartisan campaign that works to secure full nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people nationwide.
According to the research brief’s findings, LGBTQ people are more likely than non-LGBTQ people to be people of color, and Black LGBTQ individuals in the U.S. are disproportionately likely to live in states without protections against discrimination. “For example, 42% of LGBT people are people of color compared to 32% of non-LGBT people and the majority of Black LGBT Americans live in the South (51.4%, more than twice the share of any other region), where most states lack anti-discrimination protections,” researchers wrote.