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Nearly 1 in 10 LGBTQ people in the United States experienced workplace discrimination in the last year, and almost half faced employment bias at some point in their careers, according to a new survey.
In comparison to 49.4% of white LGBT employees, nearly two-thirds (63.5%) of LGBT employees of color said religion was a motivating factor in their workplace discrimination experiences. [ 129 ] Despite widespread discrimination, another study [ 130 ] has reported that only 71% of American adults think that sexual orientation is a protected ...
LGBT-related anti-discrimination laws regarding housing and private and public services vary by state. Twenty-three states plus Washington, D.C., Guam, and Puerto Rico outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation, and twenty-two states plus Washington, D.C., outlaw discrimination based on gender identity or expression. [7]
Researchers with GLSEN, a national organization that fights to end anti-LGBTQ discrimination in k-12 schools, found an increasingly more hostile environment for LGBTQ students in middle and high ...
With that, discrimination is growing,” said GLAAD president and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis. 6 in 10 LGBTQ people have reported discrimination in U.S. even as visibility continues to grow: study Skip ...
The Hate Crime Statistics Act of 1990 required data collection about crimes motivated by biases that included "sexual orientation." [33] Since then, the FBI has produced an annual report with relevant statistics. In 2013, the FBI's hate crime report began separately considering bias against "gender identity" and "gender" for the first time.
Seven in ten LGBTQ Americans reported personally experiencing discrimination, according to GLAAD's annual Accelerating Acceptance study, out now.
LGBT people of Turkish descent in Germany often report experiencing "triple discrimination"; racism and Islamophobia from the non-Turkish German community and homophobia from the heterosexual Turkish and German communities. While Turkish-Germans "still face racism in the [gay] scene", the level of racism has declined in the past 20 years.