Ongoing anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment and policy spreads discrimination and reduces access to shared resources in disasters. More specifically, how we conceive of family and orient resources for families through policy has implications for LGBTQ+ individuals. Policies that do not identify how LGBTQ+ people will be included may systematically exclude LGBTQ+ families, forcing separations during disasters (Caldwell 2006; Leap, Lewin, and Wilson 2007). Research has shown that lesbians, bisexuals, and LGTBQ+ people of color were more vulnerable during Hurricane Katrina compared to middle-class, White, men, likely because these populations lived in areas that were more prone to flooding and/or were previously more likely to be discriminated against (D'Ooge 2008).
Ongoing anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment and policy spreads discrimination and reduces access to shared resources in disasters. More specifically, how we conceive of family and orient resources for families through policy has implications for LGBTQ+ individuals. Policies that do not identify how LGBTQ+ people will be included may systematically exclude LGBTQ+ families, forcing separations during disasters (Caldwell 2006; Leap, Lewin, and Wilson 2007). Research has shown that lesbians, bisexuals, and LGTBQ+ people of color were more vulnerable during Hurricane Katrina compared to middle-class, White, men, likely because these populations lived in areas that were more prone to flooding and/or were previously more likely to be discriminated against (D'Ooge 2008).
['Ethnic, racial or other minorities', 'Sexual minorities (LGBTQI+)']