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This morning our team at the Campaign for Southern Equality and our partners at Western North Carolina Community Health Services were thrilled to publish The Report of the 2019 Southern LGBTQ Health Survey, this year’s centerpiece of our Southern LGBTQ Health Initiative.
With 5,617 participants, the 2019 Southern LGBTQ Health Survey is one of the largest samples ever of LGBTQ Southerners talking specifically about their health, their bodies, and their lives. It tells the stories of thousands of people’s individual experiences with health and health care. Taken together, it tells a powerful shared story about what it’s like to live as an LGBTQ person in the South right now.
Click here to explore The Report of the 2019 Southern LGBTQ Health Survey. We’re so honored to share this publication with you.
Inside, you’ll find:
- Groundbreaking research and data about LGBTQ Southerners’ physical and mental health; overall quality of care; experiences with depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and self-harming behaviors; and experiences with HIV. You’ll read about heartbreaking disparities that demand urgent action. You’ll also learn about positive culture changes that are already increasing access to quality care.
- Charts and tables to help you understand more about LGBTQ Southerners and our experiences with health and healthcare.
- Stories and quotes from folks who took the Survey, illustrating the data in more specific ways.
- Recommendations for how medical providers, training facilities, advocacy organizations, funders, government officials – and all of us, including you – can take action to improve LGBTQ Southerners’ health equity and access to quality care.
We’ve been working on this project for more than a year and there are a lot of people to thank. First, we want to thank each of the 5,617 people who took the time to complete the survey and share their stories – often private, sometimes hopeful, sometimes painful. Now it falls to all of us to make sure we use this data to create real change.
We want to send a big thank you to the researchers and analysts who made the report possible – Chase Harless, Maggie Nanney, and Austin Johnson. We’re grateful for their expertise in ensuring that this content is accurate, educational, and digestible. We’re also grateful to an incredible team of Survey Ambassadors, led by Kayla Gore, who worked to ensure the survey reached people all across the South. And we want to express our thanks to our 25 community partners who helped share the survey through their networks.
The findings from the 2019 Southern LGBTQ Health Survey can help to shine a bright light on both the acuity of need in the LGBTQ South and the tremendous strength and resilience in our community. We hope that this research, which was led by and for LGBTQ Southerners, informs the ways you think about and approach advocacy for LGBTQ people across the South.
We’re tremendously optimistic about what’s possible, and we’re clear-eyed about what it will take to get there. Thank you for standing with us as we work together to build a South in which every LGBTQ person can access quality health care in their hometown. A South in which every person has an equal opportunity to thrive.
Thank you,
Jasmine Beach-Ferrara
Campaign for Southern Equality
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