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Disability and LGBTQ+ identity can both play significant roles in the life of an individual. Disability and sexuality can often intersect, for many people being both disabled and LGBTQ+ can result in double marginalization.[1][2] The two identities, either by themselves or in tandem, can complicate questions of discrimination (in workplaces, schools, or otherwise) and can effect access to resources such as accommodations, support groups, and elder care.
LGBTQ+ identity and its relationship to disability has also been analyzed by academics. LGBTQ+ identities have been pathologized as mental disorders by some groups, both historically and in the present.[3][4][5] Alternatively, some activists, scholars, and researchers have suggested that under the social model of disability, society's failures to accommodate and include LGBTQ+ people makes such an identity function as a disability.[6]
- ^ "Understanding Disability in the LGBTQ+ Community". Human Rights Campaign. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
- ^ Santinele Martino, Alan (May 2017). "Cripping sexualities: An analytic review of theoretical and empirical writing on the intersection of disabilities and sexualities". Sociology Compass. 11 (5): e12471. doi:10.1111/soc4.12471.
- ^ Drescher, Jack (2015-12-04). "Out of DSM: Depathologizing Homosexuality". Behavioral Sciences. 5 (4): 565–575. doi:10.3390/bs5040565. ISSN 2076-328X. PMC 4695779. PMID 26690228.
- ^ Kunzel, Regina (2018-07-10), Rembis, Michael; Kudlick, Catherine; Nielsen, Kim E. (eds.), "The Rise of Gay Rights and the Disavowal of Disability in the United States", The Oxford Handbook of Disability History (1 ed.), Oxford University Press, pp. 459–476, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190234959.013.27, ISBN 978-0-19-023495-9, retrieved 2023-08-11
- ^ "Professionally speaking: challenges to achieving equality for LGBT people". European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. 2016-03-01. Retrieved 2023-08-11.
- ^ Rodríguez-Roldán, Victoria (2020-01-01). "The Intersection Between Disability and LGBT Discrimination and Marginalization". American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law. 28 (3).