LGBTQ households disproportionately affected by COVID-19
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metroweekly.comMovement Advancement Project report found that, compared with non-LGBTQ households, LGBTQ households are twice as likely to be unable to get necessary medical care and four times more likely to not have enough food to eat.Among MAP’s other findings, LGBTQ households experienced higher rates of serious financial problems, job losses, issues accessing health care, and greater challenges with regards at-home learning for children as a result of the pandemic.“The pandemic has disrupted life for all of us.
Yet, some communities have borne the brunt: Black and Latinx people, low-income people, and, as this new data show, LGBTQ people,” Ineke Mushovic, Executive Director at MAP, said in a statement.“Decades of discrimination on the job, in health.
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