User:Camsimjohnson/LGBT community

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Compared to white LGBT individuals, though all people of the community experience some sort of hardships, LGBT people of color often experience prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination on the basis of not only their sexual orientation and gender identity, but also on the basis of race. Nadal and colleagues discuss LGBTQ people of color and their experience of intersectional microaggressions which target various aspects of their social identities. These negative experiences and microaggressions can come from cisgender and heterosexual white individuals, cisgender and heterosexual individuals of their own race, and from the LGBT community themselves, which is usually dominated by white people.

The result of such experiences and microaggressions can make it more likely for some LGBT people of color to not not feel as comfortable and represented within LGBT spaces. A comprehensive and systematic review of the existing published research literature around the experiences of LGBT individuals of color finds a common theme of exclusion in largely white LGBT spaces. These spaces are typically dominated by white LGBT individuals, promote White and Western values, and often leave LGBT individuals of color feeling as though they must choose between their racial community or their gender and sexual orientation community. Though this can be quite a general statement, it is clear that even within the LGBT community itself there is discrimination amongst the community itself. In general, Western society will often subtly code “gay” as white; white LGBT folks are often seen as the face of LGBT culture and values.

The topic of coming out and revealing one’s sexual orientation and gender identity to the public is associated with white values and expectations in mainstream discussions. Where white Western culture places value on the ability to speak openly about one’s identity with family, one particular study found that LGBT participants of color viewed their family's silence about their identity as supportive and accepting. For example, collectivist cultures view the coming out process as a family affair rather than an individual one. Furthermore, the annual National Coming Out Day centers white perspectives as an event meant to help an LGBT person feel liberated and comfortable in their own skin. A big thing in the black community is that things are typically not as openly discussed out in the open. However, for some LGBT people of color, National Coming Out Day is viewed in a negative light, but national coming out day is slowly but surely becoming a more accessible day to everyone in the community. In the LGBT community as a whole, coming out publicly can have adverse consequences, however, it is important to know that people of color within the community may have increased risk of safety being that they are already discriminated against outside of the community based on the color of their skin. White LGBT people tend to collectively reject these differences in perspective on coming out resulting in possibly further isolating their LGBTQ siblings of Color.