The COVID-19 pandemic impacted all of us, making 2020 a year filled with challenges like no other. For individuals and families, workers and businesses, and social change organizations, the COVID-19 pandemic upended how we learn, work, and connect. In the wake of the pandemic, MAP began exploring its disproportionate impacts on LGBTQ people and other vulnerable groups. Decades of discrimination on the job, in health care, and beyond—combined with uneven legal protections around the country—make LGBTQ people more vulnerable to pandemic-related instability and insecurity, with an even more devastating impact on LGBTQ people of color.
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COVID Pulse Survey Report Series: 2020–2023
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COVID & the LGBTQI Movement in 2021: Results from the Q2 2021 COVID Pulse Survey
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Looking Ahead to 2021: The Impact of COVID-19 on the LGBTQI Movement
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