The Williams Institute is producing a series of briefs addressing the impact of COVID-19 on the LGBT community and people with HIV. Over the past few weeks, we’ve released an analysis of how the stimulus bill will benefit LGBT people, a fact sheet on at-risk LGBT seniors in California, and an op-ed addressing the similarities between our current situation and the early days of the AIDS epidemic. 

In the coming weeks, we will release additional research on transgender populations who are at increased risk of illness from COVID-19, as well as reports on LGBT people living in poverty, the prevalence of food insecurity in the LGBT community, and more. Our upcoming webinar, Disrupting Inequality, will address vulnerabilities among subpopulations of LGBT people and the impact the virus could have on them.

Please check out our newest research below and join our webinar today, April 3, at 1:30pm.
NEW RESEARCH

Over 6.5 million LGBT adults will receive full payout under coronavirus stimulus bill
More than 6.4 million single LGBT adults and 324,000 same-sex couples will receive the full direct payout under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act). Even more single LGBT adults and same-sex couples with higher incomes will receive some amount of direct assistance, and those with children will receive an additional $500 per child.
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162,000 LGB and 9,000 transgender elderly people in California at high risk for COVID-19 illness
The California Department of Public Health has associated high risk with people age 65 and older and those with compromised immune systems or serious chronic medical conditions like heart disease, diabetes, and lung disease. An estimated 162,300 LGB and 9,000 transgender people age 65 and older live in California. Of them, 53,100 LGB people and 3,000 transgender people have fair or poor health.
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Published in Ms. Magazine March 17, 2020
BY BRAD SEARS 

Five lessons the AIDS epidemic can teach us about COVID-19

Epidemics don’t begin with the first new infection. 

There is a reason that a map of HIV in the South today looks like a map of slavery in 1860.  Stay tuned for a similar map of COVID-19 in the coming months or years. 

We can do what we can today to mitigate this crisis—but unless we continue to address the deep inequalities in our country, the groundwork for the next epidemic, and the one after, has already been laid. 

For many of us, this spring feels like the early days of AIDS epidemic—including the fear, uncertainty and criminally-delayed response by the federal government which has meant, and will continue to mean, that people will die unnecessarily.

Having survived one plague, here are some key lessons as we confront another.
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