GLAAD’s annual Accelerating Acceptance study shows increase in anti-LGBTQ discrimination
GLAAD announced today (Wednesday, June 22) the findings of its eighth annual Accelerating Acceptance Study that show a sharp increase in LGBTQ Americans experiencing discrimination, particularly among queer people of color, transgender and nonbinary people and Gen Z LGBTQ Americans.
A significant majority of the LGBTQ community — 70 percent — says that discrimination has increased over the past two years.
They reported discrimination in their daily lives — with family, in the workplace, on social media, in public accommodations and in interactions with people at their children’s schools.
Read the full report here. The GLAAD report found more than half (54 percent) of transgender and nonbinary people feel unsafe walking in their own neighborhoods, compared to 36 percent of all LGBTQ adults.
