LGBTQ members are often bullied and cast out from their families.

In many cases, they

turn to drugs or alcohol as mental escape from the hard ships in life.
Adults in LGBTQ community have a higher rate of addiction as opposed to their

heterosexual counterparts. A 2018 national survey on drug use and drug health found

that more than 37.6% of adults in the LGBTQ community used marijuana in the past

year. This statistics is in comparison to 16.2% of the overall adult population that states

they used marijuana in the same time frame.

The numbers of married some – sex couples nationwide jumped from 230,000 in 2013
to 390,000 following the decision in 2015. By December 2017 that number 591,000.
Many in the LGBTQ population still experience disproportionate economic and social
disparities. LGBTQ people were more likely to have a lower annual income, lack of
money for food or health care and be unemployed.
Still, 34% of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and transgender people choose not to disclose their
private lives from colleagues and clients for fear of homophobia, exclusion or in case
they are overlooked for valuable promotions.
These widely reported events spread the message that LGBTQ people should be
celebrated and gave these companies great media coverage. However, support isn’t just
needed during pride: businesses can benefit from pledging their alliance all year around.
People who identify as LGBTQ experience stressor that are unique and widespread.
Those in the LGBTQ community are more likely to be the victim of discrimination,
sexism and violence. On top of that, people who identify as LGBTQ don’t always have
access to the support and resources to improve their mental health.
In the early 2000’s, researchers developed the minority stress model to help explain the
challenging emotions experiences of marginalize population. What they discover is that
minority populations experience stress that’s different than the stress experience by the
majority population.
It found that 46% of LGBTQ workers reported receiving unfair treatment at some point in
their careers because of their sexual orientation or gender identity including being
passed over for a job, harassed at work, denied a promotions or raise, excluded from a
company events, denied additional hours or fired.
The report comes even as the judicial and the executive branches have been shoring up
employment rights for LGBTQ workers: In June 2020, the supreme court ruled in
Bostock v Clayton county, Georgia, that title VII’s protection against sex discrimination in
employment extended to sexual orientation and gender identity.
Older LGBTQ people of color have experienced discrimination based on race, gender
and sexuality in all phases of their lives. Some of the unique challenges that are faced
by the older LGBTQ person of color include homophobia, racism, acculturation, the
phenomena of giving back into the closet”, poverty, housing discrimination,
homelessness and lose of sexuality and ageism.
With some studies showing positive findings of resilience and the positive influence of
spirituality and religion on the mental health outcomes of older LGBTQ people of the
color. A general sense of advocacy is needed in the realm of healthcare, social services,
legal services and public policy in helping to shed light on the needs of this population.
LGBTQ+ youth may need to leave their homes for a range of reasons, including
because of abuse or neglect perpetrated by their families. These youth and particularly
transgender youth are more likely to suffer from abuse and neglect compared to other
youth.
LGBTQ+ youth who experience homelessness often lack needed services, as we found
in our relent report. Some youth experiencing homelessness, such as the danger of
becoming victims of hate crimes particularly for transgender youth.
LGBTQ youth often lack of life skills and experience to cope with feelings of fear and
anxiety related to their acceptance in the society. LGBTQ youth encounter several social
interaction problems, including discrimination and isolation. These factors may cause
lose off self-esteem and depression. Many become suicidal and helpless. Suicide
thoughts and behaviors can lead to suicidal ideation, suicide attempts and death by
suicide.
The risk factors of suicide among LGBTQ youth include bullying, feeling of
hopelessness, cultural and religious beliefs and unwillingness to seek help because of
the stigma. The YRBSS 2015 revealed a total of 1,229 participants self – identifying as
LGBTQ with female (66.5%) reporting a higher rate of feeling sad or hopeless compared
to males (43.9%).
In the spring of 2010 when we surveyed approximately 4,400 randomly selected
students ages 11-18 from a large public school district. Over 72% of LGBTQ students
reported being bullied at some point in their lifetime compared to 63% of heterosexual
students. The differences was even more striking when fucosing on cyberbullying:
almost twice as many LGBTQ students reported being cyberbullied compared to
heterosexual students (36.1% compared to 20.1%) LGBTQ students were also
significantly more likely to report that they had bullied and/or cyberbullied others during
their lifetimes. In terms of negative outcomes, studies have identified a higher rate of
depression 27-30 and suicidal thoughts and attempts among LGBTQ youth who were
cyberbullied.
Discrimination in reproductive health care settings, aspect of LGBTQ pregnancy.
The study showed that members of the LGBTQ community had some similar
reproductive health care needs as cisgender, heterosexual patients (like pap test, birth
control, STI prevention) and some unique needs (like gender – affirming care, including
top surgery and hysterectomies)
Homophobia and transphobia affect workers all over the world. In many societies around
the world, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBTQ people are subject to abuse
and attacks. Gender and sexual minorities and excluded and stigmatized because of
who they are and alarmingly many countries still have laws and policies that specifically
make home sexuality a crime. Accordingly to a PEW survey, 21% of LGBTQ workers
report that they are have been discriminated against in hiring, promotions and pay.
LGBT employees are more than twice likely to be bullied and discriminated against us
heterosexual employees and the work place and nearly half of trans people are not
living permanently in their preferred gender role for fear it might threaten their
employment status.
In higher education, we face a particular challenge in understanding our needs and
progress vi’s LGBTQ students because we lack accurate institutional and national data
on students sexual orientation and gender identity.
In the last decade. LGBTQ people in the united state particularly in K-12 and higher
education have gain increasing discriminations and issues. Three core issues are:
Identity development
Campus climate
State and National Social and Policy contexts
Students across the Philippines experience bullying and discrimination in school
because of their sexual orientation gender identity. While Philippine law provides
protection against discrimination and exclusion in school.
Document the range of abuses against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
(LGBTQ) students in secondary school. It details widespread bullying and harassment,
discriminatory policies and practices, and an absence of supportive resources that
undermine the right to education under international law and put LGBT youth at risk.
Humans rights watch conducted in depth interviews and discussions with 98 students
and 46 parents, teachers, counselors, administrators on education in 10 cities Luzon
and the Visayas, LGBT students said that existing protections are irregularly or
incompletely implemented, and that secondary school policies and practices or ten
facilitate discrimination and fail to provide LGBT students with information and support.
In 2013, the Philippine congress pass an anti-bullying law prohibiting bullying on the
basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
HOUSE BILL NO. 4982
An act prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity or
expression (SOGIE) and providing penalties therefore.
LGBTQ+ individuals will gain protection against hate speech and SOGIE base
discrimination in private and government workplace, schools (including parents/legal
guardians) and obtaining assistance and services. The bill also prohibits force medical
or psychological evaluations and harassment in handling of criminal cases (Casal, 2019)
According to Hontiveros (2019), the SOGIE bill gives equal access to LGBTQ persons to
employment, education and social services it will also penalize employers who
discriminate against LGBTQ+ persons.