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A free clinic for all low income individuals in the CSRA with a specific emphasis on providing complete and competent care to the underserved LGBTQ community.
Services offered:

Primary care services for uninsured patients

Gender transitioning support

Rapid HIV screening in partnership with the Department of Public Health

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV-1

Free blood Work

Free clinical pathology tests

Oral Health Screenings

Mental health support

Atlanta | (404) 728-7900 | marketing@feministcenter.org
A center committed to providing a safe space and trans-affirmative environment for individuals of all sexualities and gender identities interested in holistic wellness services.
Services offered:

Hormone Replacement Therapy for Trans Men

T-Panels

Annual exams

Lower Exams

Pre or Post-Surgical Chest Exam

Surgical Clearance Lab Work and Letter

Gender Marker Letter

STI Testing and Treatment

Rapid HIV Testing

Savannah | (912) 236-2489 | secretary@firstcitynetwork.org
An organization meant to enhance and sustain the well-being of LGBT individuals and their allies by providing educational, social, and health related activities, programs and services.
Atlanta | (404) 523-3070 | geinfo@georgiaequality.org
Advocacy group working to advance fairness, safety and opportunity for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities and allies throughout the state.
Atlanta | (770) 843-7301 |atlanta@chapters.glsen.org
GLSEN Atlanta is a chapter of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network and is dedicated to making K-12 schools a safe place for students regardless of their gender identity of sexual orientation.
Atlanta | (470) 399-2028 | contactus@justusatl.org
An LGBTQQA youth led space of affirmation, liberation, and safety which empowers LGBTQQA youth to lead their own movement.
Atlanta | (678) 856-7824 | info@lost-n-found.org
A nonprofit that helps take homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth off the streets and transition them into more permanent housing.
Services offered:

24/7 phone, texts, and email response

Emergency and transitional housing

Emergency clothing and food for youth on the street

Mental health evaluations and counseling

Referrals to HIV/STD testing, health and dental services

Assistance for lost or stolen birth certificates, driver's licenses or state ID cards

Referrals to GED training/testing and other education resources

Resume writing/editing and interview skills training

Roswell | (678) 446-8653 | abaxterga@gmail.com
Sex-positive counselor specializing with LGBTQ, kinky, polyamorous (non-monogamous) individuals, couples, and family units.
Services offered:

Individual counseling for adults or teens

Couples counseling, Marriage counseling, Relationship counseling

Suicide Assessment

Family counseling

Conflict resolution/mediation

Open group for people in or considering polyamorous relationships

Open group for transgender or gender non-conforming youth (23 or younger)

Consultation for professionals on non-traditional relationships and sexuality

Consultation for professionals on gender identity and transition

Atlanta | (678) 744-9369
As member-based association that creates an inclusive environment for the Metro Atlanta LGBTQ community that allows for professional development through networking, high-quality events, training, mentoring and education.
Membership benefits include:

Special event discount admission

Networking opportunities

Career opportunities

Educational resources

Atlanta | (470) 485-2140 | realyouthatl@gmail.com
A nonprofit meant to enhance and sustain the health and well-being of young people of all sexual orientations and gender identities by providing safe and affirming activities, programs, and services.
Services offered:

Mentorship program

Weekly Group Discussions

Counseling

Tutoring

Religious Options

Atlanta | (404) 331-3150 | info@sparkrj.org
A nonprofit ensuring the voices of black women and LGBTQQ youth of color living in the south are included in the reproductive rights and justice movements.

Spark is comprised of two different programs - a political advocacy group called Speak Justice Take Action (SJTA) and queer/trans POC civic leadership group called Fierce Youth Reclaiming & Empowering (FYRE.)
Atlanta | (404) 549-8628 |kindred@southernersonnewground.org
A regional Queer Liberation organization made up of people of color, immigrants, undocumented people, people with disabilities, working class and rural and small town LGBTQ people in the south.
Atlanta | (404) 870-7700 | project.evolution.atl@gmail.com
A safe space for young black gay/bisexual men and transgender individuals to connect, develop strengths and skills, support each other, have fun and achieve positive goals.
Services Offered:

HIV/STD screening and treatment

Risk counseling and linkage to free medical screenings

Case management

Mental health services

Group discussion/bonding

Augusta | (803) 617-8352 |shepardprojectaugusta@gmail.com
The Shepard Project is a youth hangout/safe space for LGBTQ, allies and friends.

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GLAAD | GLAAD rewrites the script for LGBTQ acceptance.

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GLAAD is a non-profit LGBTQ advocacy organization focused on cultural change to ensure fair, accurate, and inclusive representation to advance LGBTQ acceptance.

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We're so glad you found us! PFLAG is the nation's largest organization dedicated to supporting, educating, and advocating for LGBTQ+ people and those who love them.

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Learn how LGBTQ persons with mental health conditions may experience more negative mental health outcomes due to prejudice and other biases.

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WASHINGTON-Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, and SHOWTIME announced this year's 25 recipients of "Queer to Stay:...

Despite living in a state of emergency, our community continues to stay resilient. We are still coming together, celebrating ourselves and advocating for our rights. It is more important than ever that we join together to send a clear message: We are not going anywhere.

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If Enacted, Discriminatory Legislation Introduced in House of Representatives Would Erase LGBTQ+ Identities from Education System

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The It Gets Better Project exists to uplift, empower, and connect LGBTQ+ youth around the globe.

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In this statement, GLSEN's National Student Council condemns police brutality and calls for greater support for Black lives

Read the Statement

Get involved and join your community, local, or state GLSEN chapter

GLSEN Chapters create LGBTQ-inclusive schools. Community-led chapters offer teacher trainings, student support, community outreach, and more.

Recent Research

Research, Reports, and Briefs

Research, Reports, and Briefs

Research, Reports, and Briefs

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Trans Lifeline, a phone hotline for and by trans people, is also encouraging callers to reach out for support. "Trans people came together to create a space where we can talk to each other to combat that isolation," says Trans Lifeline's Hotline Director IV Staklo

Your experience using a crisis hotline will be unique to the service you reach out to, but generally speaking, you will be asked to confirm your consent to begin a conversation with a trained operator, according to Yana Calou, communication director for Trans Lifeline, a hotline run by and for trans people

Communication tech firm Twilio is announcing $3 million in new grants later on Tuesday, aimed at helping more than two dozen crisis services speed up their response time.

Trans Lifeline, which is receiving its largest-ever grant of $153,000 from Twilio, said that is enough to launch an urgently needed Spanish-language hotline to serve the U.S. and Canada by the end of June. As a result it expects to handle 44% more calls.

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Trans Lifeline is a national trans-led organization dedicated to improving the quality of trans lives by responding to the critical needs of our community with direct service, material support, advocacy, and education. Our vision is to fight the epidemic of trans suicide and improve overall life-outcomes of trans people by facilitating justice-oriented, collective community aid.

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The Trevor Project | For Young LGBTQ Lives

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LGBTQ+ Focused Hotlines

The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project offers accredited life-saving, life-affirming programs and services to LGBTQ youth that create safe, accepting and inclusive environments over the phone, online and through text.

Trevor Lifeline-The only national 24/7 crisis intervention and suicide prevention lifeline for LGBTQ young people under 25, available at 1-866-488-7386.
TrevorChat-A free, confidential, secure instant messaging service for LGBTQ youth that provides live help from trained volunteer counselors, open daily from 3-10pm ET / Noon-7pm PT.
TrevorText -A free, confidential, secure service in which LGBTQ young people can text a trained Trevor counselor for support and crisis intervention, available Monday-Friday from 3-10pm ET / Noon-7pm PT by texting START to 678678.

Trans Lifeline
Trans Lifeline is a grassroots hotline and microgrants organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis - for the trans community, by the trans community.

Trans Lifeline's Hotline is a peer support service run by trans people, for trans and questioning callers. If you are in crisis or just need someone to talk to, even if it's just about whether or not you're trans, please call us. US: 877-565-8860

Counseling Today Articles

Competencies, Practice Briefs, & Other Resources

Competencies
ALGBTIC Competencies for Counseling LGBQIQA Individuals. June 2012
The aim of these competencies is to provide a framework for creating safe, supportive, and caring relationships with LGBQIQA individuals, groups, and communities that foster self-acceptance and personal, social, emotional, and relational development.

ALGBTIC Competencies for Counseling Transgender Clients. September 2009
This document contains suggested competencies for use in counseling with transgender clients. These competencies are geared toward professionally trained counselors who work with transgender individuals, families, groups, or communities.

Practice Briefs
Practice Briefs are research-based summaries of best practices, evidence-based practices, and research-based approaches covering a wide variety of client-presenting issues and counseling topics.

Practice Brief: LGBTQQ - Affirmative Counseling 12/2014

Other ACA Resources
Counseling LGBTQ Adults Throughout the Life Span is a training and conceptual guide that can supplement the literature and practice knowledge for those working with adults who identify as a member of the LGBTQ community. The guide is a compilation of experiences of many professional counselors, counselor educators, counseling supervisors, and leaders in the counseling profession, and it is hoped that the guide will illuminate the diverse views within the adult developmental process as it pertains to issues of mental health, life satisfaction, and a focus on the uniqueness of the LGBTQ adult population.
Roland, C. B., & Burlew, L. D. (Eds.). (2017). Counseling LGBTQ adults throughout the life span. Retrieved from
https://www.counseling.org/docs/default-source/default-document-library/counseling-lgbtq-adults-throughout-the-life-span-final.pdf?sfvrsn=2
Online Courses
Developing Competence in Working With LBGTQI+ Communities: Awareness, Knowledge, Skills, and Action
Speakers: Misty M. Ginicola, PhD, Joel M. Filmore, EdD, Cheri Smith, PhD, Professor

Speakers:Amy Zavadil, Ph.D., NCC

Speakers: Deanna N. Cor, PhD, Megan J. Doughty Shaine, PhD

Speaker: Surinder Bal, PhD, LPC, NCC

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Youth: Family Acceptance and Emotional Development
Speaker:Julie Basulto, MA in Marriage and Family Therapy

Speaker:Rebecca Smith, LPC, CPCS

Ethical and Legal Considerations: Complicated Issues in Challenging Times
Speaker: Stephanie F. Dailey, EdD

Resiliency Factors of Trans-College Students: Implications for Professional Counselors and Higher Education Professionals
Speakers:Jane E. Rheineck, PhD, Matthew Lonski

Speaker(s): Anita A. Neuer, PhD, John F. Marszalek, PhD, Kevin C. Snow, PhD, Mary Aab, LPC

Speaker: Varunee Faii Sangganjanavanich, PhD,

ACA Partner Resources

The 2018 LGBTQ Youth Report. The HRC Foundation and the University of Connecticut released the largest-of-its-kind survey of more than 12,000 LGBTQ teenagers across the nation, revealing in distressing detail the persistent challenges so many of them face going about their daily lives at home, at school, and in their communities.
Human Rights Campaign (2018). 2018 LGBTQ youth report. Retrieved from
https://assets2.hrc.org/files/assets/resources/2018-YouthReport-0514-Final.pdf

Books

Affirmative Counseling with LGBTQI+ People
Misty M. Ginicola, Cheri Smith, and Joel M. Filmore

This current and comprehensive handbook will guide educators, students, and clinicians in developing the awareness, knowledge, and skills necessary to work effectively with LGBTQI+ populations. Twenty-five chapters written by experts provide direction for working with clients in an authentic, ethical, and affirmative manner that is tailored to their individual strengths, needs, and identity.

Group Counseling with LGBTQI Persons
Kristopher M. Goodrich and Melissa Luke

This unique resource provides strengths-based group counseling strategies designed to meet the needs of LGBTQI clients in a variety of settings. Drs. Goodrich and Luke capture the developmental concerns of LGBTQI individuals throughout the life cycle as they establish and maintain intimate relationships, create families, encounter career concerns, and navigate other milestones and transitions. Illustrative case examples and interventions throughout the text, as well as warnings and recommendations, make this an ideal resource for practice and group work courses.

Casebook for Counseling Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Persons and Their Families
Sari H. Dworkin and Mark Pope

This captivating book contains 31 case studies that focus on what is said and done in actual counseling sessions with LGBTQQI clients, including diagnosis; interventions, treatment goals, and outcomes; transference and countertransference issues; other multicultural considerations; and recommendations for further counseling or training.

Youth at Risk
David Capuzzi and Douglas R. Gross

In the latest edition of this best-selling text, David Capuzzi and Douglas Gross, along with 24 experts in the field provide a prevention-intervention paradigm to address contemporary issues facing today's youth. Written from a systemic perspective, this book offers guidance in helping teens who are struggling with the complex challenges that can be brought on by peers, family members, and difficult social environments.

Ethical Standards Casebook
Barbara Herlihy and Gerald Corey

The seventh edition of this top-selling text is a comprehensive resource for understanding the 2014 ACA Code of Ethics and applying its principles to daily practice. Each individual standard of the Code is presented with an explanatory case vignette. A study and Discussion Guide is provided at the beginning of each major section of the Code to stimulate thought and discussion. Common ethical concerns, with instructive case studies, are then explored. Chapters new to this edition examine managing value conflicts and the issues surrounding new technology, social media, and online counseling.

A Counselor´s Guide to Working with Men
Matt Englar-Carlson, Marcheta P. Evans, and Thelma Duffey

This book examines a variety of critical issues pertaining to the psychology of men and masculinity and presents successful, evidence-based strategies for treatment. The editors and their contributing authors express an empathic understanding about male socialization and explore why men are often reluctant to seek counseling. Examples and vignettes throughout the text provide clinical relevance, and reflective questions in each chapter encourage readers to explore their own biases and ideas about working with men.

Podcasts

ACA290 - Queer People of Color
Adrienne N. Erby, PhD, NCC and Christian D. Chan, MA, NCC

ACA283 - Group Counseling with LGBTQI Persons
Kristopher M. Goodrich, PhD and Melissa Luke, PhD

ACA and the HRC Foundation offer an educational initiative designed to empower counselors serving the LGBTQ community. This series of free online learning modules focuses on critical skills and insights in counseling LGBTQ youth and young adults on college-and-career readiness concerns.

The four available modules include:

LGBTQ Youth & Young Adults in School, College, and Careers

Preparing For Conversations with LGBTQ Youth

Transgender & Gender-Expansive Counseling Issues

LGBTQ College-and-Career-Readiness Case Studies

"The true success is seeing so many counselors committed to helping the LGBTQ community. We are thrilled counselors are taking advantage of this free resource," Lynn Linde, ACA Senior Director of the Center for Counseling Practice, Policy and Research said.
Click here to learn more or register.

Webinars

Trauma Webinar Series
Clinical, school, and college counselors: This is your chance to explore the increasingly complex topic of trauma across the spectrum of counseling. Learn how to complete a thorough, thoughtful assessment and then dive deeper into timely, specific topics.

ABCs of Trauma: Introductory Session with Stephen Lenz, PhD, LPC

Children and Trauma with Kimberly N. Frazier, PhD

Dissociation and Trauma Spectrum with Mike Dubi, EdD, LMHC

Counseling Refugees with Rachael D. Goodman, PhD, LPC

Human Trafficking with Jared S. Rose, MA, LPC/CR, NCC

Counseling School and College Students with Julie A. Cerrito, PhD, Richard Joseph Behun, PhD, and Eric W. Owens, PhD

Traumatic Stress and Marginalized Groups with Cercie A. West-Olatunji, PhD

Confronting the Darkness: Non-Suicidal Self-Injury, Suicide Assessment, and Counselor Self-Care After Client Suicide
As a professional counselor, you learn to conduct a suicide assessment in graduate school. How long has it been since you put that knowledge to use? If a suicidal client is sitting before you today, are you confident in your approach to suicide assessment and non-suicidal self-injury (i.e., "cutting")?
ACA Governing Council Resolutions and S tatements

In recent years ACA Governing Council has adopted a number of resolution and advocacy statements in support of the LGBTQ+ community.
Approved Advocacy Statement for Transgender and Nonbinary Issues and Concerns - March 25 -27, 2019
The American Counseling Association (ACA) is committed to nondiscrimination and prevention of harassment in all forms (verbal, physical, sexual, emotional, and psychological), including protections for all diverse groups including protections for transgender and nonbinary individuals. ACA recognizes the stress and psychological impact of discrimination and is committed to helping counselors advocate for nondiscrimination policies and practices in their schools, colleges/universities, clinical mental health settings, communities, and in the nation. ACA encourages counselors to utilize the American Counseling Association Competencies for Counseling with Transgender Clients, the ACA Advocacy Competencies and the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies when working with individuals, their families, and the organizational institutions that are impacted.
Resolution on Reparative Therapy/Conversion Therapy/Sexual Orientation Change Efforts (SOCE) as a Significant and Serious Violation of the ACA Code of Ethics - December 19, 2017

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The Trevor Project The Trevor Project offers accredited life-saving, life-affirming programs and services to LGBTQ youth that create safe, accepting and inclusive environments over the phone, online and through text. Trevor Lifeline-The only national 24/7 crisis intervention and suicide prevention lifeline for LGBTQ young people under 25, available at 1-866-488-7386.

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Racism is a concern for many in the western lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT) communities, with members of racial, ethnic, and national minorities reporting having faced discrimination from other LGBT people.

In the United States, ethnic minority LGBT individuals may find themselves in a double minority, in which they are neither fully accepted nor understood by mainly white LGBT communities, nor are they fully accepted by their own ethnic group. Many people experience racism in the dominant LGBT community in which racial stereotypes merge with gender stereotypes; for example, Asian-American LGBT people are often stereotyped by Westerners as more passive and feminine, while African-American LGBT people are stereotyped as more aggressive. A number of culturally specific support networks for LGBT people are active in the United States, such as "Ô-Môi", a support network for Vietnamese-American queer females.

A report titled We're Family Too studied what it calls same-sex-attracted people from Arab backgrounds in Australia. The respondents were from both Christian and Muslim religious backgrounds. Many people in the Arab community spoke about ethnic stereotypes.

Some Mizrahi Jews and Arab Jews report exclusion and discrimination by the Ashkenazi LGBT community in Israel. Some LGBT Mizrahi Jews have alleged that aspects of Ashkenazi LGBT activism express "Ashkenazi hegemony" and leave "no legitimized cultural space for Mizrahi queers to express their Arab culture and heritage".

In a study by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force on LGBT Asian Americans and Pacific Islands Americans, 82% of the surveyed participants reported experiencing racism from white members of the LGBT community. Another challenge that many Asian Pacific Americans who are LGBTQ must face is racism, in society at large and within the LGBT community. Sometimes this is from overt discrimination, other times it is the lack of Asian Pacific Islander representation. British Asian gay men living in Yorkshire and elsewhere in northern England have reported increasing levels of racism and racial abuse from white gay men. LGBT communities in ethnically diverse areas of the UK, such as Manchester and London, were found by the Naz Project to be more tolerant.

Many LGBT black people report experiencing racism from the white LGBT community, leading some to repudiate labels such as "gay" and connections to white LGBT culture. The term same gender loving was coined by the activist Cleo Manago to describe people of African descent who are attracted to the same sex, as opposed to terms such as "gay/lesbian", "bisexual", or " queer". This term was meant to actively express pride in one's racial heritage.

Efforts to push gay rights forward alongside the black rights movement brought out opinions on their presence. Quotes by John Wilder include statements such as "Now that it is becoming unfashionable to discriminate against Negros, discrimination against homosexuals will be on the increase" and "no other Negros among the audience, but saw one [black person] disturbing [the] pamphlets."

Some Black gay men report discrimination and harassment from white gay men in gay bars and clubs. In the past, some gay bars would display signs that said "No Blacks, Fems, or Faggots", and similar phrases.

Some gay Black South African men have reported experiencing "grotesque racism" from white gay men during the time of Apartheid.

Chuck Knipp, a white gay male drag performer who is known for his blackface act "Shirley Q. Liquor", has been accused of racism. Responding to Knipp's declaration that the Liquor character "was created in celebration of, not to downgrade, black women", Jasmyne Cannick said in her blog: "... it is not possible for Charles Knipp, a white man, to help heal years of mistreatment and racism at the hands of his people by putting on a wig, speaking Ebonics, and in blackface ... There is nothing remotely uplifting about Knipp's act and I wish people would stop defending his character with the tired argument that he's trying to heal the nation. The only thing Knipp is trying to heal is the hole in his pocket by filling it with all of the money he makes off of degrading Black people."

Clarence Ezra Brown III has researched ways gay black males feel in their black and gay communities. Gay black males are stuck between two communities they believe they do not fit into. According to Keith Boykin, "The dirty little secret about the homosexual population is that white gay people are just as racist as white straight people". Those who do not see themselves as part of the LGBT community see it to be a white community with white experiences. Because gay black men face racism in the LGBT community it is translating into the wider black community, meaning the only "support structures that speak to their perspective" continue to alienate them.

Some authors, such as Howard Stevenson Jr. and Mary Dianne Plummer have written that much of the racism against LGBT black people is rooted in sexual racism and the linking of sex role stereotypes and racial stereotypes. Black men who express a sexual preference for white men have been alleged to be suffering from "an insidious legacy of white racism" that causes internalized racism in black men. Some Afrocentric gay men are opposed to inter-racial relationships, believing gay black men who prefer white men lack strong roots in the black community or are oblivious to racism. The anti-inter-racial Afrocentrists believe that instead of "hating their blackness", gay black men should only date other gay black men. A slogan that promotes black-on-black gay relationships is "black men loving black men", which was popularized by Joseph F. Beam's anthology In the Life and the Marlon Riggs video Tongues Untied.

Conversely, Rob Redding's book "The Professor: Witnessing White Power" uses empiricism to surmises that sleeping with white men gave some of the most prominent black men of our time like James Baldwin, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Marvin Gaye and Richard Pryor a fearlessness when dealing with racist whites. He utilizes a mix of communication theory like proxemics, kinesics and haptics along with analysis of Jane Ward's book " Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men" as a case study to explore how interracial relationships between men can be transformative for the black community. He states: "Ward, who is a lesbian, writes about power exchanges between white men. The Professor explores how gay interracial relationships and encounters may have empirically had an impact on the black community."

Gay Hispanic and Latino men report experiencing racism both within and outside the gay community. Latino gay men with dark skin color and indigenous features reported the greatest level of discrimination, including from the white gay community. Gay bars, for example, were spaces where Latinos and other people of color would face discrimination. This motivated the creation of the first and only Latino gay bar in the San Francisco Mission District in 1979, Esta Noche. Latina lesbians also report experiencing racism from the white LGBT community. Latin gays and lesbians have been engaged in autonomous organizing since the 1970s addressing issues of racism, sexism, and homophobia. The first Latina lesbian organization was founded in Los Angeles in the early 1980s and the National Latino/a Lesbian & Gay Organization (LLEGÓ) was founded in 1987, with Latino/a LGBT people choosing to organize separately due to both racism in the LGBT community and homophobia in the straight Latino community.

In 2006, Latino Americans staged a protest in The Castro, San Francisco, against anti-Latino racism in the LGBT community.

The organization La Casa in East Los Angeles, California, exists to serve the LGBT Latino community and create a safe space, free from homophobia and racism. Members have expressed their experiences with "blatant racism" from the white LGBT community, particularly in West Hollywood.

However, it is important to remember that "queer latinidad is not a site with clearly defined boundaries" rather it varies in acceptance and mannerism based on where someone goes. There are Latino/a LGBT people who find support within their cultural communities and openly embrace their identities. Tatiana de la tierra was a lesbian Latina writer who was shameless about her sexuality, and a lot of her work provided support and encouragement for other Latina lesbians to be shameless and proud like her. She co-founded the magazine Esto no tiene nombre which was meant to combat the patterns of stigmatization, exclusion, and invisibility of queer Latinas by creating a platform for free discussion and expression of sexuality.

In Canada, lesbian aboriginal women report feeling marginalized from mainstream and LGBT cultures, and from aboriginal communities and other communities of color. Gay aboriginal men, many of whom also identify as two-spirited, often face homophobia within aboriginal communities and racism within the LGBT community.

Gay Australian Aboriginal men have reported a lack of inclusion and representation in the white-dominated LGBT community. When aboriginal men have been included in LGBT organizing efforts, it has often been in a tokenizing way.

Māori people in New Zealand

Takatāpui identity is a way for many LGBT Māori people to express their dual identities as both Māori and non-heterosexual. While the term fell into disuse for many years, it has recently been reclaimed as an expression of pride. Some Māori people have questioned the focus on same-sex marriage in the Pākehā (white European) LGBT community. In traditional Māori culture it was common for either straight or gay couples to be unmarried. The LGBT Māori people who critique the overemphasis on same-sex marriage believe focusing too narrowly on marital rights is harmful and reduces diversity in the LGBT community. They believe the focus on marriage is a product of "whiteness".

Some Native American lesbians report feeling disenchanted with Caucasian people-including white lesbians-and have established separatist communities exclusively for Native American women or for women of color. Native American lesbians have established communes in the American Midwest and Northern California, in an attempt to repudiate white culture, live self-sufficiently, and return to the traditions of their tribal ancestors.

Some LGBT Italian Americans report experiencing anti-Italian discrimination from within the LGBT community. Italian American gay men, particularly darker-skinned men such as those of Sicilian descent, report experiencing sexual objectification from lighter-skinned and white men. In a manner similar to the way black, Asian, and Latino men are sometimes portrayed, Italian men are portrayed at times as "the object of desire of the white man" as well as being considered "exotic and well-endowed, oversexed and extremely passionate". These sexual stereotypes of Italian and Sicilian gay men also appear frequently in gay pornography, but are not exclusive to the gay community.

According to Warren Hoffman in writing for the Huffington Post, antisemitism is experienced by Jewish LGBT people on both racial and religious grounds, as well as racism against gay people of color, misogyny and transphobia.

According to the Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures, lesbian feminist organizations do not discuss antisemitism when discussing the fighting of oppression because they believe it no longer exists or is not as important as racism or homophobia. Some lesbian feminists have accused Jews of being "killers of the Goddess" because they believe the god of Israel is male or androgynous. Jews are also often blamed for patriarchy. Some sexual roleplays done by gays and lesbians play out Nazi/Jew fetishes in a sado-masochistic fashion and Jewish lesbians are often invisible in the lesbian community. Some lesbians wear swastikas both during and outside their sex lives in attempts to transform the symbol or ignore the impact it has on the Jewish community.

In 2017, three Jewish lesbians were expelled from Chicago's Dyke March because of their Stars of David/"Pride" flags. After multiple articles were published criticizing of the actions of the Chicago Dyke March Collective, the group decided to fund a "healing retreat" for its members.

Nikolay Alexeyev, a prominent LGBT rights activist in Russia, made antisemitic statements on his Facebook and Twitter accounts in 2014, targeting Michael Lucas with antisemitic slurs and claiming that a "Jewish mafia" ruled America and was "trying to overtake the world."

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. Murat Bahşi, a former board member of the organization Gays and Lesbians of Turkish Backgrounds (GLADT), has said racism and racial stereotypes from ethnic German men often contributed to the disintegration of inter-ethnic relationships between Turkish and German men.

Antiziganism (anti- Romani racism) has been reported within the non-Romani LGBT community in Romania. When the musician Madonna condemned homophobia and antiziganism during her 2008 Sticky & Sweet Tour, many LGBT Romanians responded on websites and blogs by lambasting her for linking the plight of LGBT people with the plight of the Romani people. Numerous LGBT commenters and bloggers referred to LGBT people as "decent civilised people", while deriding Romani people as thieves and criminals who are incompatible with "civilised society". According to the LGBT rights organisation and charity Stonewall, antiziganism is prevalent in the UK, with a distinction made between Romani people and Irish Travellers-both of whom are commonly known by the exonym " gypsies" in the UK-and the so-called "travellers [and] modern Gypsies".

The National Socialist League of the United States limited its membership to gay Aryans. The documentary Men Heroes and Gay Nazis addressed the phenomenon of gay Neo-Nazis in Germany. Michael Kühnen and Nicky Crane were gay Neo-Nazis.

Asian men are often represented in media, both mainstream and LGBT, as being feminized and desexualized. LGBT Asian men often report "sexual racism" from white LGBT men. The gay Asian-Canadian author Richard Fung has written that while black men are portrayed as hypersexualized, gay Asian men are portrayed as being undersexed. Fung also wrote about feminizing depictions of Asian men in gay pornography, which often focuses on gay Asian men's submission to the pleasure of white men. According to Fung, gay Asian men tend to ignore or display displeasure with races such as Arabs, blacks, and other Asians but seemingly give sexual acceptance and approval to gay white men. Building off the work of Fung, Gilbert Caluya argues that media creates a "symbolic castration" of the gay Asian male. In inter-racial gay male pornography, Asian men are usually portrayed as submissive " bottoms". The gay Asian male's penis is hidden and the focus tends to be on the curves of the body, which is a traditional technique generally used for women. Racist stereotypes about gay Asian men, that include images of all gay Asian men as effeminate, having small penises, and as passive partners in terms of anal sex (bottoms) contribute to the anti-Asian racism within the gay male community.

Gay Asian men frequently experience racism on gay dating websites, where it is common for profiles to state a sexual preference for men of certain races, such as "No Asians", or "No fats, no femmes, no Asians". Some Asian gay men report being "relegated to the bottom of the attractiveness spectrum" due to "racial lookism", a combination of racism and lookism. White gay men are more frequently than other racial groups to indicate "No Asians" when seeking partners. In many English speaking countries, there is a strict racial hierarchy where White men are at the top and Asian men are somewhere far beneath. Senthorum Raj argues that "whiteness...becomes a privileged form desiring capital, enabling bodies that 'pass' as 'White', while marking out bodies which do not. Racial 'others' become produced in this economy of desire as fetishes or repugnant objects," and that Whiteness becomes the standard by which desirability is measured.

In a descriptive study conducted by Damien Riggs in Australia, he pulled samplings of profiles from a gay dating site and analyzed the profiles for anti-Asian sentiment. His findings showed that anti-Asian racism takes on four different forms: "1. The construction of racism as 'personal preference', 2. The construction of Asian gay men as not 'real men', 3. The construction of Asian gay men as a 'type', and 4. The assumption that saying 'sorry' renders anti-Asian sentiment somehow acceptable." Riggs explains that it is problematic to use racialized desire as personal preference as "it constructs 'preference' and identity categories as equitable, which ignores the fact that gay Asian men do not choose their Asian identity". This also reduces gay Asian men into a category of an object or 'kink' that can be adopted or cast aside at will.

An example of Riggs' third form of anti-Asian racism can take the form of fetishization of gay Asian men, and thus their objectification. White gay men who fetishize gay Asian men are given the label " rice queen". Rice queens view gay Asian men as the only possible objects of erotic interest and reduce gay Asian men to a category of an object.

Asian women are stereotyped as "passive but exotic", and lesbian Asian women report being stereotyped as "exotic" or viewed as not lesbian due to being Asian. "Yellow fever" is also cited as a concern among some Asian American lesbians, as well as sexual objectification. Lesbian Asian Americans also face conflict in the intersectionality of their identities as lesbians and Asian Americans. Asian women, particularly femme women, are perceived as "easy target[s]" for harassment by men due to their stereotype as feminine, docile, submissive, passive, and weak. Similarly, stereotypes of what an Asian woman's appearance, typically femme, versus that of a stereotypical lesbian's appearance-typically butch -exclude femme lesbian and bisexual Asian women.

Gay Asian men have a stereotype of being feminine, as depicted in media such as the U.S. television program Grey's Anatomy episode " Where the Boys Are", which depicts an Asian man as the spouse rather than his white partner, a soldier. Chong-Suk Han, one of the leading researchers of queer Asian Pacific American men says such images contribute to a cultural devaluation of gay Asian male sexuality. According to GLAAD, 86 percent of the LGBT characters shown during the U.S. 2008-'09 television season were white; 19 percent were of Asian descent-these were usually in minor roles. LGBT media articles, like Out Magazine's "How to Gab in Gaysian" published in February 2005, are seen as perpetuating a perception of Asian gayness as foreign and outside the norm.

Lesbian Asian women are largely represented by femmes in Western media, with a prevalence of stereotyping Asian women as more feminized roles: Dragon Lady or China doll. There is also a developing emergence of gay and lesbian new media arts in Asia and Asian diasporas, such as Yellow Kitties, a social support group for Asian LGBT Australians with members from around the world.

Asian lesbian and bisexual women report a sense of invisibility in both LGB community and U.S. culture as a whole, which is supplemented by a lack of representation of lesbian and bisexual Asian women in mainstream media.

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