LGBTQ Activity

Project Future India Trust works on highlighting some major problems faced by LGBT people across India and worldwide.

LGBTQIA+ has become a widely accepted designation for minorities based on sexual and gender orientation. All members of these subgroups are subject to similar prejudices rooted in beliefs and traditions about sexuality and gender. LGBT people, as members of a social minority group, are suffering from various forms of socioeconomic and cultural injustice. There is lack of social recognition has an effect on the capacity of LGBT people to fully access and enjoy their rights as citizens. They are more likely to experience intolerance, discrimination, harassment, and the threat of violence due to their sexual orientation, than those that identify themselves as heterosexual.

Problems Faced by LGBT People:

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) people face tremendous difficulties growing up in a society where heterosexuality is often presented as the only acceptable orientation and homosexuality is regarded as deviant. They continue to face discrimination and exclusion across the world in all spheres of life. Homophobic violence and abuse targeting LGBT people occur on a regular basis. The same-sex couples do not enjoy the same rights and protections as opposite sex couples, and consequently suffer from discrimination and disadvantage in access to social protection schemes, such as health care and pensions. In the labour market, a majority of LGBT people continue to hide their sexual orientation or to endure harassment out of fear of losing their job. Particularly vulnerable are young LGBT people who experience estrangement from family and friendship networks, harassment at school and invisibility, which can lead in some cases to underachievement at school, school drop-out, mental ill-health and homelessness. This discrimination not only denies LGBT people equal access to key social goods, such as employment, health care, education and housing, but it also marginalizes them in society and makes them one of the vulnerable groups who are at risk of becoming socially excluded. We are highlighting some major problems faced by LGBT people across the world:

1. Marginalization and Social Exclusion.
2. Impact of Family Reactions on LGBT Children: Conflict and Rejection.
3. Problem of Homelessness.
4. Problems of Homophobia.
5. Harassment of LGBT Students in Schools.
6. Psychological Distress.
7. Poor Economic Condition and Discrimination in the workplace.
8. Drug Addiction.
9. Barriers to Care.
10. Challenges faced by LGBT elders.
11. Victims of Hate Crimes and Violence.
12. Problems of Criminalization.
13. Legal Injustice.
14. Problems of Terminology.