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9 Battles The LGBTQ People In The US Is Still Fighting
The fight for gay rights in the United States has approach a long way since the Stonewall Uprising of 1969, when gay and trans patrons of the Stonewall Inn in Recent York City fought advocate against police trying to arrest them.
That night marked the beginning of the gay rights movement in the US, a decades-long fight that just a few years ago resulted in the momentous 2015 Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage nationwide.
But the ruling on June 26, 2015, didn’t end the struggle for equality and protection. Across the land, LGBTQ Americans still meet legalized discrimination under the law when it comes to housing, jobs, parenting, and even prison.
This June, it’s important to mark how far the US has come in acknowledging gay rights — and to be proud of that fact — but only if we also recall how far we still have to go to ensure that the matching rights and dignity of LGBTQ Americans are acknowledged under the law.
Here are some of the battles for equality that are still being fought across the country.
1. Violence
Hate crimes against LGBTQ individuals are still shockingly prevalent across the country. In 20
LGBTQ Rights
The ACLU has a long history of defending the LGBTQ community. We brought our first LGBTQ rights case in 1936. Founded in 1986, the Jon L. Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović LGBTQ & HIV Project 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 reach into the courts and legislatures of every articulate, there is no other organization that can match our record of making progress both in the courts of law and in the court of public opinion.
The ACLU’s current priorities are to end discrimination, harassment and hostility toward transgender people, to close gaps in our federal and state civil rights laws, to prevent protections against discrimination from existence undermined by a license to discriminate, and to preserve LGBTQ people in and from the criminal legal system.
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LGBTQ People’s Experiences of Workplace Discrimination and Harassment
Executive Summary
Over 8 million workers in the U.S. identify as LGBT.Employment discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation and gender identity contain been widely documented.Recent study has found that LGBTQ people continue to meet mistreatment in the workplace,even after the U.S. Supreme Court held in 2020 that discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity is prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.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, consequence in higher costs and other negative outcomes for employers.
This report examines experiences of discrimination and harassment against LGBTQ employees using a survey of 1,902 LGBTQ adults in the workforce conducted in the summer of 2023. It is based on a similar study published by the Williams Institute in 2021.This report examines the lifetime, five-year, and past-year workplace experiences of LGBTQ employees. It compares the experiences of transgender a
Out On The Couch
The battle for LGBTQ+ rights has come a long way, but the battle for acceptance is far from over. Therapists working with clients who are members of the LGBTQ+ society commonly see elevated rates of mental health challenges in this population, including anxiety, depression, trauma, disordered eating, and even suicidal ideation (Young & Fisher-Borne, 2018). Many of these mental health struggles are partially or fully the product of oppressive practices and structures which remain unchallenged in our society. As a mental health professional, becoming aware of these harmful structures and how they affect your clients is essential to providing affirmative care. Here are some of the most prominent challenges facing the LGBTQ+ community today.
Healthcare Access
An issue facing the Homosexual community is how basic healthcare services are often frustratingly out of attain. As previously mentioned, Diverse people are at a much higher risk of anxiety and depression and also tend to own a higher rate of substance abuse, which can cause serious physical health issues if not appropriately treated (Gnan et al., 2019). It is also worth noting that lack of gender- an
LGBTQ+ Health Disparities
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