Data collected last fall indicates that LGBTQQ people — especially LGBTQQ people of color — have been disproportionately affected by the health and economic impacts of COVID-19, according to a new report released by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law.
According to the report, among those tested for COVID, an estimated 15 percent of LGBTQ people of color have tested positive for COVID-19, compared to 7 percent of their non-LGBTQ white peers.
And LGBTQ people of color are about twice as likely to have been laid off or furloughed from work and to struggle to pay for household goods compared to non-LGBTQ white adults.