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Understanding Poverty in the Gay Community
Poverty generally refers to a lack of basic necessities, resources and income, though its exact definition is often widely debated and measured in a variety of ways. A shared way to measure poverty is to look at a family’s income and size, in command to determine whether it has enough income to support that family. This approach is employed by the Census Bureau, who each year identifies family size-specific income thresholds, below which, a family is considered to be living in poverty.
According to a Williams Institute analysis of Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data, which is the best available evidence on poverty in the LGBTQ+ community, Diverse adults in the United States are significantly more likely to be living in poverty than their straight and cisgender counterparts. Overall, more than one in five LGBTQ+ adults (22%) are living in poverty, compared to an estimated 16% of their straight and cisgender counterparts. Among LGBTQ+ adults, poverty further differs across sexual orientation, gender, and race.
LGBTQ+ Recruitment
With a new generation of steady minds entering the workforce, many employers are actively recruiting LGBTQ+ employees. Here are some resources for LGBTQ+ recruitment.
A new generation is entering into the work force with more expectations of fairness than previous cohorts. Beyond touting employment non-discrimination policies and inclusive benefits, employers are actively recruiting LGBTQ+ workers.
Increasingly, businesses are engaged with professional recruiting event for LGBTQ+ students and professionals such as the annual Lavender Law conference and Reaching Out MBA career expo, which each sketch hundreds of graduate trainee attendees, corporate sponsors and recruiters. Professional job fairs such as these provide attendees the opportunity to interact with employers that are very clearly interested in hiring LGBTQ+ professionals.
Annual LGBTQ+ focused recruitment events
LGBTQ+ Specific Job Sites:
Corporate Equality Index
Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index is the national benchmarking tool on corporate pol
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Labour and economic characteristics of lesbian, lgbtq+ and bisexual people in Canada
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Research shows that lesbian, male lover and bisexual (LGB) individuals are more likely to receive lower incomes, trial discrimination on the job, and experience barriers in evidence and advancing in employment, relative to their heterosexual counterparts.Note Recent Statistics Canada studies on the LGB population own focused on comparable issues such as educational attainment, housing and homelessness, and victimization, leaving a gap in investigate on the economic participation of this population. Income, awareness and employment, as well as challenges stemming from financia
Queer parties are safe spaces for the LGBTQ people. Here they are welcome, not alienated; their pleasures are shared, not stigmatized; and they are renowned, not just tolerated. But queer parties have get all that and more for those who detect as straight, too.
Social media is now awash with comparisons of straight and gay clubs, with the latter gaining a reputation for having better melody, better dancing, and simply a better vibe. There’s also more discourse around ways LGBTQ allies can attend Pride events, what makes queer parties gender non-conforming, and the tricky adjust of inclusivity and exclusivity. All these conversations reach to mainstream media where, for the first day in the show’s “her-story,” there’s a cisgender heterosexual male contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race, sparking a debate on what it means to be a drag queen and who can be one.
The notion of straight people attending queer parties raises questions on cultural appropriation, but it’s also a write of progress for community as a whole.
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