The Guild - LGBT Aging and Ability Issues
LGBT DISABILITY AND IMPAIRMENT ISSUES
From Disaboom (Resources for People with Disabilities), “Being gay or lesbian with a disability makes you a minority times two. Discrimination can come from many different sources, even within either of those communities, the very places where you’d expect support. But there are locations where people exactly like you can find a community of comfort and inclusion. LGBTs with disabilities have unique challenges to face. Do you out your sexual orientation? How about a hidden disability? And how do you deal with a public that still largely sees people with disabilities as somehow gender neutral? Fortunately, there are resources available so you don’t have to feel isolated and alone”...Visit Disaboom website.
According to Change.Org, “Dora Raymaker talks about the connections between disability rights and LGBT rights, and the shared struggles the two movements have seen in their quest for equal rights. Dora quotes from an article that discusses disability rights advocates in San Diego joining with LGBT rights activists this past week, after the California Supreme Court validated Proposition 8 and prevented gays and lesbians from getting married in California.
Until the 1940s, it was illegal for disabled people to get married," recalled Linda Kwizdak (pictured [in the original article]) of San Diego Blind Community Services. "People were fearful of disabled people, and now they are very fearful of homosexuals. ...I've had a lot of arguments with people who voted for Proposition 8 who say that homosexuality is a 'choice.' It's not a choice to be what you are; it's only a choice to express what you are.
Dora offers an excellent reminder in her post that just gaining the right to marry doesn't end blatant discrimination. "It's great to see members of the disability community supporting the GLBT community when it comes to this shared issue of right to marry. However, it's also important to remember that just gaining the legal right to marry, as the disability community has, doesn't alone solve the issue of discrimination," Dora writes.
Check out her post. The connections between the two movements are certainly interesting. And it's tremendously cool to see solidarity between two great movements struggling for equal rights”...Click here to Read the Article.
LOCAL RESOURCES:
The Whole Person - People with Disabilities Living Independent Lives (Kansas City)
The Whole Person is a Center for Independent Living Founded in 1978. We are a private, non-residential, nonprofit corporation providing a full range of community-based services for people with disabilities.
LGBT Disabled Peer Support Group
Connecting people with disabilities in the LGBT communities. If you are a person with a disability who is lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning, join this group to share information and successful techniques addressing the needs and challenges you face. RSVP to Shelley Rogers (816) 627-2228. srogers@thewholeperson.org or Faye Skidmore (816) 627-2204. fskidmore@thewholeperson.org.
Located at:
All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church
Conover Hall
4501 Walnut
Kansas City, MO
NATIONAL RESOURCES:
Deafline Missouri (Statewide) - A crisis hotline for Deaf and Hard of hearing individuals - 1-888-380-DEAF (3323) (Voice/TTY)
ALGBTIC (ACA) - Heterosexism and Ableism PowerPoint Presentation
APA Disability Resources in Psychology
The central mission of the APA Office on Disability Issues in Psychology is to work toward the elimination of bias against and the promotion of equal opportunity for persons with disabilities in education and training, research, and professional practice.
Bent - A Journal of CripGay Voices
Bent is the biographical voice of cripgay men, but BENT also covers disability art and culture, gay and straight, to prove that our differentness and our need for inclusiveness can coexist.
Passing Twice - LGBT People Who Stutter
National Stuttering Association (NSA) Passing Twice is an informal network of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender stutterers and their friends. Passing Twice meets every year at the NSA convention, and also holds workshops at other stuttering conferences around the world. In between, we keep in touch through a quarterly newsletter, an e-mail list, and an annual mailing list.
The Rainbow Alliance of the Deaf (RAD) is a nonprofit organization to establish and maintain a society of Deaf GLBT; to encourage and promote the educational, economical, and social welfare; to foster fellowship; to defend our rights; and advance our interests as Deaf GLBT citizens concerning social justice; to build up an organization in which all worthy members may participate in the discussion of practical problems and solutions related to their social welfare. RAD has over fifteen chapters in the United States and Canada.
ReachOut USA focuses on the intersection between disability and LGBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender) concerns. ReachOut USA seeks to influence the disability community to be more responsive to LGBT individuals, and at the same time it seeks to influence LGBT individuals and organizations to be more accountable to people who have disabilities. ReachOut USA pursues these goals through advocacy, training, technical assistance, referrals, and the negotiation of partnerships.
Blind LGBT Pride International
Blind LGBT Pride International, formerly known as BFLAG, is a special interest affiliate of the American Council of the Blind (ACB). The purpose of Blind LGBT Pride is to provide for the betterment of the lives of those who are visually impaired and who are LGBT By providing a forum for the views and concerns of visually impaired persons interested in issues facing those who are LGBT; By providing information about publications of interest to members that are produced in accessible format and by encouraging the production of such material in accessible format; & by providing education on accessibility awareness.
The Deaf Queer Resource Center (DQRC) is a national nonprofit resource and information center for, by and about the Deaf Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Intersex and Questioning communities (hereafter referred to as the "Deaf Queer community").
Gay and Disabled Story - MagneticFire (UK)
Count Me in Too - Deaf and LGBT Lives Summary Sheet (PDF)
Disabled Gay Men - Bent - A Journal of CripGay Voices
BENT is the place where disability and queerness meet head-on. It's the only place where you'll read our lives, not about our lives. BENT discriminates. It's by and for cripgay men. Men who stand in solidarity with disabled women, but who believe that the "problem" of sex, as part of the problem of our larger selves, is too difficult a challenge to confuse with gender politics.
NAADD - National Association on Alcohol, Drugs and Disability, Inc.
The National Association on Alcohol, Drugs and Disability Inc., (NAADD) promotes awareness and education about substance abuse among people with co-existing disabilities. The mission of NAADD is to create public awareness of issues related to alcoholism, drug addiction, and substance abuse faced by persons with other co-existing disabilities, and to provide a peer approach to enhance access to services, information, professional helping facilities such as a drug rehab, education and prevention through the collaborative efforts of interested individuals and organizations nationwide.
Disability History - Lesbians and Queers with Disabilities
Disability Now - United Kingdom
Americans with Disability Act (ADA) - National Resource Page
The Benchmark Institute - Cultural Competency for GLBT Disability Community
Living the Queer Crip Life - Bay Area Reporter
Everyone wants to be seen for who they are, but for disabled LGBT individuals, being truly recognized as both queer and disabled remains elusive.
Ouch BBC - Its a Disability Thing
Ouch team writes frequent entries about all things disability - from news snippets, gossip and trivia through to interesting links from all over the web.
Online Dating Sites such as... Enable Romance - Dating 4 Disabled Gays
Facebook Community... Gay, Disabled and Happy
formerly known as BFLAG, is a special interest affiliate of the American Council of the Blind (ACB)... Blind LGBT Pride
The Deaf Queer Resource Center (DQRC)... Deaf Queer.org
For Gay People Who Stutter... Passing Twice.com
Deaf Awareness for those Lost to AIDS... Deaf Lost to AIDS
The National Association on Alcohol, Drugs and Disability Inc., (NAADD) promotes awareness and education about substance abuse among people with co-existing disabilities.... Visit NAADD website
Bent is the biographical voice of cripgay men, but BENT also covers disability art and culture, gay and straight, to prove that our differentness and our need for inclusiveness can coexist..... Visit BENT website
AXIS began in 1987 when founding Artistic Director Thais Mazur had the great idea and creative vision to gather a group of dancers with and without disabilities to explore dance and create a performance piece...... Visit Axis website
Sins Invalid is a performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized....... Visit website
RESOURCES FOR PROVIDERS:
LOCAL RESOURCES ON DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY:
Missouri Department of Mental Health - Developmental Disabilities Resources
Missouri Department of Mental Health - Developmental Disability Regional Offices
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth with Disabilities: A Meta-Synthesis
This meta-synthesis of empirical and nonempirical literature analyzed 24 journal articles and book chapters.
A Journal Devoted to the Psychological and Medical Aspects of Sexuality in Rehabilitation and Community Settings
Sins Invalid is a performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized....... Visit website
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