Research and studies are limited for the Black LGBT community. However, when looking at the LGBT community through a racial lens, the Black community lacks many of these advantages.
A Gallup survey shows that acceptance rates went from 38% in 1992 to 52% in 2001. Statistics show an increase in accepting attitudes towards lesbians and gays among general society. Advancements in public policy, social discourse, and public knowledge have assisted in the progression and coming out of many Black LGBT individuals. Ruling in favor of Romer, Justice Kennedy asserted in the case commentary that Colorado's state constitutional amendment denying LGBT people protection from discrimination 'bore no purpose other than to burden LGB persons'. Johnson (who was in the vanguard of the later pushback against the police) played key roles in the events.įollowing Stonewall, the 1986 legal precedent Romer v. A landmark event for the LGBT community, and the Black LGBT community in particular, was the Stonewall uprising in 1969, in New York City's Greenwich Village, where Black activists including Stormé DeLarverie (who instigated the uprising) and Marsha P. The initialism LGBT stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. The African-American LGBT community, otherwise referred to as the Black LGBT community, is part of the overall LGBT culture and overall African-American culture.
