Leading civil rights organizations including the National Black Justice Coalition, Freedom for All Americans, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the National LGBTQ Task Force released a research brief on June 16 showcasing and documenting the disproportionate effect of discrimination on LGBTQ people of color.
Authored by the What We Know Project at Cornell University’s Center for the Study of Inequality, the study details the disproportionate harm of discrimination carried out on LGBTQ people of color in many areas, including frequent experience of discrimination, mental and physical health, economic insecurity, suicide attempts, and living in regions with fewer anti-discrimination protections and more anti-LGBTQ laws. “This