Below are reports, studies, articles, and other resources that highlight the intersectionality between LGBTQ issues and racial justice.
LGBTQ Youth of Color
- 2019 Black and African American LGBTQ youth report — Human Rights Campaign
- This resource draws on data from the 2018 HRC LGBTQ Youth Report to highlight the experiences of respondents who identified part or all of their ethnoracial identity as either Black or African American.
LGBTQ Elders of Color
- Health Equity and LGBT Elders of Color: Recommendations for Policy and Practice — Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE)
- This policy brief offers 10 policy recommendations that can begin advancing health equity among LGBT elders of color.
LGBTQ Workers of Color
- A Broken Bargain for LGBT Workers of Color — Movement Advancement Project, Center for American Progress, Freedom to Work, Human Rights Campaign, and the National Black Justice Coalition
- This report explores unfair practices that lead to high rates of unemployment and poverty for LGBT workers of color.
LGBTQ Survivors
- Survivor Stories: Learning from LGBQ/T Communities in MA
- The findings in this report discuss whether LGBQ/T individuals in Massachusetts had concerns for their safety in their relationship(s) within the past five years, where they would or did turn for support, and the catalysts for and barriers to accessing services. The findings also explore how the intersections of various identities such as gender, sexual orientation, and race, among others, play a role in LGBQ/T folks’ experiences around partner abuse and reaching out for support.
Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Communities
- Racial/ethnic disparities in the history of incarceration, experiences of victimization, and associated health indicators among transgender women in the U.S.
- This study examines the impact that incarceration has on transgender women's health.
- 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey: Report on the Experiences of Black Respondents— National Center for Transgender Equality, Black Transmen, Black Transwomen Inc., and the National Black Justice Coalition
- This report focuses on the unique experiences of respondents who identified as Black or African American in the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey.
- An Epidemic of Violence: Fatal Violence Against Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People in the United States in 2020
- This report sheds light on the epidemic of violence taking the lives of transgender and gender non-conforming people, providing an analysis of data since 2013. The report findings provide action items to ending violence against transgender and gender non-conforming people.
Racial Justice Organizations and LGBTQ Communities
- Better Together: Research Findings on the Relationship Between Racial Justice Organizations and LGBT Communities— Applied Research Center (rebranded as Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation in 2013)
- This study included a survey of 81 organizations of color and interviews with 32 leaders of racial justice and LGBT organizations.
Anti-LGBTQ Discrimination and Mental Health
- Discrimination, mental health, and suicidal ideation among LGBTQ people of color
- This journal article explores the effects of LGBTQ-based discrimination on mental health.
- This journal article explores the effects of LGBTQ-based discrimination on mental health.
- Violence against queer people: race, class, gender, and the persistence of anti-LGBT discrimination
- This book is an investigation of anti-queer violence that focuses on the role played by race, class, and gender.
- This book is an investigation of anti-queer violence that focuses on the role played by race, class, and gender.