Gay white men

• White LGBT adults are more likely to engage in high-risk health behaviors than White non-LGBT adults. Medicaid enrollment is particularly high among women raising children: 16% of White LGBT women and 9% of White non-LGBT women raising children are enrolled in Medicaid, compared to 6% of White LGBT men raising children and 3% of White non-LGBT men raising children.
• White LGBT women are less likely to have a personal doctor than White non-LGBT women (78% vs.

  You can’t be BIPOC and queer, that’s just too many marginalizations. The problem lies in social standards that have allowed for different people to operate on separate playing fields. Minefields for people of color, racism is rife and an accepted norm on many of these platforms. Being queer is not a get-out-of-jail-free card, and it’s time for white gays to stop acting like it is.

  Allyship is crucial, as queer people should know by now.

  Establishing more safe spaces for queer people of color could also help, as they are few and far between. White LGBT women are twice as likely to be uninsured as White non-LGBT women (14% vs. Among White adults, 28% reported experiencing mild disability, defined as experiencing limitations because of poor health for 1-14 days in the past month; 12% reported high disability, defined as experiencing limitations because of poor health for 15-30 days in the past month.

  These disparities exist for both White LGBT men and women compared to non-LGBT men and women, with the exception of cancer for White women.

Access to health care

• White LGBT adults are less likely to have health insurance than White non-LGBT adults: 13% of White LGBT adults are uninsured, compared to 9% of White non-LGBT adults. White LGBTQ+ people may face discrimination, but they also wield a lot of privilege due to their racial identity.
  

  Among White LGBT adults, 27% report current smoking and 9% report heavy drinking, compared to 18% and 7% of non-LGBT adults, respectively.

• More White LGBT adults than non-LGBT adults report having mild or high disability, defined by the number of days that they experienced limitations due to poor health in the prior month. Leaders like Marsha P Johnson, Stormé DeLarverie, Miss Major and several other Black transgender and queer people were on the front line for those six nights in the summer of 1969.

  No community can exist divided into castes. Raise up the voices of those further marginalized within the community. Unfortunately, this is nothing new for the Black queer community; the architects and elders of the movement have been all but erased. But while June has become a month-long celebration for many, it’s apparent that we currently have two different prides occurring.

  While rainbows are replacing corporation logos across the nation, Black folks like myself are attending rallies for the death of our trans sisters — most recently Layleen Polanco Xtranveganza, who was found dead in her jail cell in Rikers Island, and Zoe Spears, who was shot to death on June 15.

  For example, 54% reported not having had enough money to make ends meet in the prior year, 11% reported being fired or laid off in the prior year, and 26% reported experiencing a major financial crisis in the prior year. Race affects everything, arguably more than gender and sexuality.

  People can have many different identities at once.