Study links anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry and economic instability

"Based on the result of the "Global LGBTQ+ survey" - a survey conducted in 153 countries, gathering data from 82,354 participants, researchers from CNRS and UNAIDS analysed how prejudice manifests itself at institutional, community and family levels. The study highlighted family rejection as the most damaging form of LGBTQ-phobia on the wellbeing of those affected. Participants from the Middle East and North Africa reported the lowest subjective wellbeing, followed by Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It further found that the more economically precarious a person is, the greater the rejection they experienced."

""Economic precarity significantly interacted with the negative association between homophobia and participants' well-being. "The weight of a country's homophobic climate on well-being was nearly halved for economically secure participants compared with those economically deprived," the abstract of the study reads. The study is part of a research program aimed at analysing how the deterioration of wellbeing can impact a person's ability to cope with social risks, such as an increase in sexually transmitted diseases."

Data from 82,354 participants across 153 countries in the Global LGBTQ+ survey assessed prejudice at institutional, community, and family levels. Family rejection ranks as the most damaging form of LGBTQ-phobia for individual wellbeing. Participants in the Middle East and North Africa reported the lowest subjective wellbeing, followed by Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Economic precarity increased both the likelihood and intensity of rejection and amplified the negative association between homophobia and wellbeing; economically secure people experienced nearly half the adverse weight of a country's homophobic climate compared with economically deprived people. Deteriorating wellbeing can reduce capacity to cope with social risks, including increases in sexually transmitted diseases. A separate report found rising homophobic and transphobic rhetoric, hate crimes, censorship, and homophobic policies across western societies, increasing danger even in the UK, US, and parts of Europe.

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