The National LGBTQ Anti-Poverty Action Network (“the Network”) is a member-based coalition of organizations and individuals working in the LGBTQ, anti-poverty, and anti-hunger movements. Members collaborate on policy advocacy, organizing and educational initiatives to increase awareness about, and action on, LGBTQ poverty, and provide emotional and mental support for each other.
the LGBTQ Poverty Report
Intersecting Injustice: A National Call to Action
Released in March of 2018, this report is the result of several national LGBTQ organizations convening eight focus groups across the country with community members and advocates who are deeply invested in sharing narratives of lived experience, data and sample policies to address LGBTQ poverty.
"Intersecting Injustice documents the extent to which the portrayal of LGBTQ people in popular culture and in the public imagination—and even the understanding of LGBTQ people within civil and human rights movements—is distorted and incomplete. This report offers a fuller understanding of the complexities of U.S. culture by centering the voices of people who live in poverty and those who work directly with them. Importantly, this report provides alternatives to despair by highlighting promising practices and specific policy proposals around which communities can organize."
Vanita Gupta
President and CEO of the Leadership Conference
Former Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division
Organizing & Policy
Understanding the range of experiences of LGBTQ communities living in poverty will help create inclusive policy solutions on a local and federal level. The Organizing & Policy section is broken down into U.S. regions, highlighting how history and culture influence the demographic composition of each region. Please explore the data and tell us if you have an innovative policy or unique research that should be shared here!
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