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LGBTQ Rights
The ACLU has a long history of defending the LGBTQ community. We brought our first LGBTQ rights case in Founded in , the Jon L. Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović LGBTQ & HIV Proposal brings more LGBTQ rights cases and advocacy initiatives than any other national organization does and has been counsel in seven of the nine LGBTQ rights cases that the U.S. Supreme Court has decided. With our arrive into the courts and legislatures of every state, there is no other organization that can match our register of making progress both in the courts of statute and in the court of general opinion.
The ACLU’s current priorities are to end discrimination, harassment and violence toward transgender people, to close gaps in our federal and state civil rights laws, to prohibit protections against discrimination from being undermined by a license to discriminate, and to protect LGBTQ people in and from the criminal legal system.
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LGBTQ+ Communities and Mental Health
Everyone has a sexual orientation and gender identity. Sexual orientation is who you are romantically or physically attracted to. Gender individuality is the internal perception of being male, female, both or neither, which is separate from your biological sex. People who have a different sexual orientation or gender self from most people plunge under the umbrella legal title LGBTQ+. It is really important to know that identifying as LGBTQ+ is NOT a mental illness or disorder.
Although being LGBTQ+ is absolutely not a mental illness, many LGBTQ+ people encounter mental health struggles. The bisexual and transgender communities have the highest rates of mental health concerns within the LGBTQ+ population. Younger members of the LGBTQ+ community struggle the most with mental health concerns of all the age groups.
Most LGBTQ+ individuals are incredibly resilient and will thrive in the face of adversity, with the help of supportive families, communities, and peers. One study even create that LGBTQ+ people used mental health services at times higher rate
LGBTQ People’s Experiences of Workplace Discrimination and Harassment
Executive Summary
Over 8 million workers in the U.S. distinguish as ment discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation and gender identity have been widely research has found that LGBTQ people continue to face mistreatment in the workplace,even after the U.S. Supreme Court held in that discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity is prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of Experiences of workplace discrimination and harassment negatively impact employees’ health and well-being, as well as their job commitment, satisfaction, and productivity. These primary effects can, in turn, result in higher costs and other negative outcomes for employers.
This report examines experiences of discrimination and harassment against LGBTQ employees using a survey of 1, LGBTQ adults in the workforce conducted in the summer of It is based on a similar study published by the Williams Institute in This report examines the lifetime, five-year, and past-year workplace experiences of LGBTQ employee
It’s Always Been About Discrimination for LGBT People
As a gay person, I grew up knowing I was different. Hearing other kids call anyone who deviated from traditional gender expectations a “fag.” Getting called a “lesbo” at age I hadn’t come out to anyone and didn’t even really understand what it meant, but I knew it was an insult.
At an early age, we learn that it’s at best different to be LGBT. And many of us are taught that this difference is poor — shameful, deviant, disgusting. We might try to hide it. We might wish it away. We learn that even if our family accepts us, there are some relatives who might not; we get asked to obscure who we are so as not to build them uncomfortable.
This teaches shame.
We hear about LGBT people who have been physically attacked or even killed for being who they are.
This teaches fear.
While I know I grew up with privilege, and others have stories far worse than mine, I also believe that countless other LGBT people could explain stories like this — not the same, but all rooted in a legacy that made us feel ashamed of who we are. And ye