LGBTQ Southerners of color are devising unique ways to build communities and uplift lives.
documents the striking numbers – 93% of LGBTQ Southerners live in states with low or negative equality rankings – with the work of groups navigating around rigid policies, entrenched attitudes and scant statewide protections.
Eight Southern states have targeted religious exemption laws that allow businesses and service providers to refuse to serve people if doing so would conflict with their religious beliefs. “It is a microcosm of what we are seeing in America as a whole. Racism is real, LGBTQ discrimination is real,” Mushovic said. ”If you are an LGBTQ person of color you are living in two ways that allow people to discriminate against you.”
There are an array of programs, from support groups for transgender people and people living with HIV, to a text line service and a computer lab.
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