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Harassment and Violence

LGBT People experience disproportionate homelessness, hostility of family (negative statements. shaming), harassment at school, and physical and sexual abuse

• Pew Research 13

• Human Rights Campaign 18
  • 2018 LGBTQ Youth Report
  • HUGE collection of data concerning difficulties LGBTQ people face
  • 67% of LGBTQ youth hear their parents make negative statements about LGBTQ people - rises to 78% if child is in the closet.
  • 48% of LGBTQ youth say their family makes them feel bad for their identity
  • This pretty much ends the argument right here. Bad stuff exists folks.
• Human Rights Campaign 17
  • LGBTQ youth are 120% as likely to experience homelessness as cisgender and heterosexual youth.
  • Up to 40% of the homeless youth population is LGBTQ
  • Cited possibility for this discrepancy being LGBTQ youth getting kicked out of the home by unwelcoming/openly hostile family.
• Williams Institute: Dowd 18 (cited)
  • HUGE collection of data points on harassment in schools
  • 85% of LGBT students have experienced verbal harassment
  • 58% of LGBT youth have felt unsafe at school due to their sexual orientation; 43% have felt unsafe because of their gender identity
  • 27% of LGBT students have been physically harassed at school because of their sexual orientation; 13% have been physically harassed because of their gender identity
• National Coalition Against Domestic Violence 18
  • Queer folks experience a disproportionate amount of domestic and sexual violence
    • This includes increased amounts of rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner at some point in their lifetime
      • 43.8% of lesbian women, 61.1% of bisexual women, 26% of gay men and 37.3% of bisexual men
      • 35% of heterosexual women / 29% of heterosexual men.
    • Only 26% of gay men called the police for assistance after experiencing near-lethal violence.
    • Fewer than 5% of LGBTQ survivors of intimate partner violence sought orders of protection.
    • Transgender victims are more likely to experience intimate partner violence in public
    • Bisexual victims are more likely to experience sexual violence.
    • LGBTQ Black/African American victims are more likely to experience physical intimate partner violence.
    • LGBTQ white victims are more likely to experience sexual violence.
  • Here’s how it breaks down:
    • 20% of victims have experienced some form of physical violence
    • 16% have been victims to threats and intimidation
    • 15% have been verbally harassed
    • 4% of survivors have experienced sexual violence
    • 11% of intimate violence cases reported in the NCADVP’s 2015 report involved a weapon.
• Sears et al. 14
  • LGBT people face high levels of discrimination at work
  • Finds evidence of widespread discrimination (workplace harassment, reduced employment opportunities, etc.) in scientific field studies, controlled experiments, academic journals, court cases, state and local administrative complaints, etc.
  • “Discrimination has negative effects on LGBT people in terms of health, wages, job opportunities, productivity in the workplace, and job satisfaction”