Disability and LGBT identities

Disability and LGBT identity both can play significant roles in the life of an individual. Disability and sexuality can intersect in compounding ways, and, for many people, being both disabled and LGBT can result in double marginizalization.^[1]^[2] The two identities, either by themselves or in tandem, can complicate questions of discrimination (in the workplaces, schools, or otherwise) and access to resources like accommodations, support groups, and elder care.

LGBT identity and its relationship to disability has also been analyzed by academics. LGBT 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 LGBT 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).

[:0-1] "Understanding Disability in the LGBTQ+ Community". Human Rights Campaign. Retrieved 2023-07-21.

[2] 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.

[:16-3] 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.

[:17-4] 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

[5] "Professionally speaking: challenges to achieving equality for LGBT people". European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. 2016-03-01. Retrieved 2023-08-11.

[:7-6] 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).

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