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    LGBTQ+ people continue to face widespread discrimination in many areas of life such as employment, housing, education, and public life. While some laws protect people from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, many states do not have such protections. As a result, LGBTQ+ people often make subtle changes to avoid discrimination, such as modifying their speech, clothing, or hiding their identity. Bisexual people in particular face erasure of their identity and higher rates of mental health issues and violence. Asexual people also experience strong prejudice and are often viewed as "cold" without emotions. More work is still needed to address discrimination against all people across the LGBTQ+ spectrum.

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    LGBTQ+ people continue to face widespread discrimination in many areas of life such as employment, housing, education, and public life. While some laws protect people from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, many states do not have such protections. As a result, LGBTQ+ people often make subtle changes to avoid discrimination, such as modifying their speech, clothing, or hiding their identity. Bisexual people in particular face erasure of their identity and higher rates of mental health issues and violence. Asexual people also experience strong prejudice and are often viewed as "cold" without emotions. More work is still needed to address discrimination against all people across the LGBTQ+ spectrum.

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    LGBTQ+ people continue to face widespread discrimination in many areas of life such as employment, housing, education, and public life. While some laws protect people from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, many states do not have such protections. As a result, LGBTQ+ people often make subtle changes to avoid discrimination, such as modifying their speech, clothing, or hiding their identity. Bisexual people in particular face erasure of their identity and higher rates of mental health issues and violence. Asexual people also experience strong prejudice and are often viewed as "cold" without emotions. More work is still needed to address discrimination against all people across the LGBTQ+ spectrum.

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    Discrimination Against LGBTQ+

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    LGBTQ+ people continue to face widespread discrimination in many areas of life such as employment, housing, education, and public life. While some laws protect people from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, many states do not have such protections. As a result, LGBTQ+ people often make subtle changes to avoid discrimination, such as modifying their speech, clothing, or hiding their identity. Bisexual people in particular face erasure of their identity and higher rates of mental health issues and violence. Asexual people also experience strong prejudice and are often viewed as "cold" without emotions. More work is still needed to address discrimination against all people across the LGBTQ+ spectrum.

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    LGB

    T+
    DISCRIMINATI
    Michelle Sittig

    ON
    01
    LGBTQ+ AS A WHOLE
    02
    DISCRIMINATION
    AGAINST LGBTQ+ AS A
    WHOLE
    New research from the Center for
    American Progress shows that LGBTQ+
    people across the country continue to
    experience pervasive discrimination that
    negatively impacts all aspects of their
    lives. In response, LGBTQ+ people make
    subtle but profound changes to their
    everyday lives to minimize the risk of
    experiencing discrimination, often hiding
    their authentic selves.
    Neither the federal government nor most
    states have explicit statutory
    nondiscrimination laws protecting
    people on the basis of sexual orientation
    and gender identity. LGBT people still
    face widespread discrimination:
    Between 11 percent and 28 percent of
    LGB workers report losing a promotion
    simply because of their sexual
    orientation, and 27 percent of
    transgender workers report being fired,
    not hired, or denied a promotion in the
    past year.
    ”
    Discrimination also routinely affects LGBTQ+ people beyond the
    workplace, sometimes costing them their homes, access to
    education, and even the ability to engage in public life.
    LGBTQ+ people who don’t experience overt discrimination, such
    as being fired from a job, may still find that the threat of it shapes
    their lives in subtle but profound ways.
    03
    EXAMPLE OF
    HOMOPHOBIA
    BUYER PERSONA

    David M., a gay man, works at a Fortune 500 company


    with a formal, written nondiscrimination policy. “I
    couldn’t be fired for being gay,” he said. But David went
    on to explain, “When partners at the firm invite straight
    men to squash or drinks, they don’t invite the women or
    gay men. I’m being passed over for opportunities that
    could lead to being promoted. I lower my voice in
    meetings to make it sound less feminine and avoid
    wearing anything but a black suit. … When you’re
    perceived as feminine—whether you’re a woman or a gay
    man—you get excluded from relationships that improve
    your career.”
    04
    BIERASURE AND
    BIPHOBIA
    In addition to biphobia, bisexual people are often
    excluded or rendered invisible in LGBTQ+
    spaces and conversations about LGBTQ+ issues.
    Bisexual people are sometimes assumed to be
    straight or gay based on the gender of the person
    they are currently dating. Because of biphobia
    and bi erasure, bisexual people suffer
    significantly higher rates of depression and
    anxiety, domestic violence, sexual assault and
    poverty than lesbians, gay men or straight
    cisgender (non-transgender) people. Bisexuals
    also face major health disparities and poor
    healthcare outcomes from a lack of adequate
    preventative care.
    05
    ACEPHOBIA
    Whilst social awareness is growing, asexuality and
    aromanticism are still not widely recognised, and
    prejudice against asexual and aromantic people remains
    largely unexamined. The little research that there is in
    this area has uncovered strong bias against ace people.
    Relative to cisgender and heterosexual people, and even
    to cisgender lesbian, gay and bisexual people, asexual
    people were found to be the target of more prejudice,
    avoidance and discrimination. Of all the sexual
    minorities studied, ace people were the most
    dehumanised, viewed as “machine-like”- cold and
    emotionless. This demonstrates the need to address anti-
    asexual bias and that ace people are at risk of
    experiencing violence, abuse and discrimination.
    THANKS!

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