Disability and LGBTQ identities

In general, studies have found that LGBTQ+ populations report higher rates of disability than the general population.

In studies looking at populations in the United States, LGBTQ populations report higher rates of disability compared to the heterosexual and cisgender majorities.{{Cite journal |last1=Fredriksen-Goldsen |first1=Karen I. |last2=Kim |first2=Hyun-Jun |last3=Barkan |first3=Susan E. |date=January 2012 |title=Disability Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults: Disparities in Prevalence and Risk |journal=American Journal of Public Health |language=en |volume=102 |issue=1 |pages=e16–e21 |doi=10.2105/AJPH.2011.300379 |issn=0090-0036 |pmc=3490559 |pmid=22095356}}{{Cite web |date=2022-02-21 |title=LGBTQ+ People with Disabilities |url=https://glaad.org/disabilities/ |access-date=2023-07-21 |website=GLAAD |language=en-US}} According to the Movement Advance Project in 2019, an estimated 3 to 5 million lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the United States have a disability.{{Cite web |title=LGBT PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES |url=https://www.lgbtmap.org/file/LGBT-People-With-Disabilities.pdf |website=Movement Advancement Project}} A 2022 report about the United States by the Human Rights Campaign reported that 36% of LGBTQ+ adults have self reported having a disability while 24% of non-LGBTQ adults self reported having a disability.{{Cite web |date=2022-08-12 |title=Understanding Disability in the LGBTQ+ Community |url=https://www.hrc.org/resources/understanding-disabled-lgbtq-people#:~:text=Rates%20of%20disability%20among%20LGBTQ+%20people&text=Overall%2C%20one%20in%20three%20(36,(cisgender%20and%20heterosexual)%20adults. |access-date=2023-07-21 |website=The Human Rights Campaign |language=en}} A 2024 report on American LGBTQ youth found that 29.7% of the 3,100 youth polled were diagnosed with a disability, with these numbers being higher for trans youth (33.3%) than cisgender LGBQ+ youth (20.6%).{{Cite web |title=2024 Disabled LGBTQ+ Youth Report |url=https://reports.hrc.org/2024-disabled-lgbtq-youth-report#disabled-lgbtq-youth-at-school |access-date=2024-11-19 |website=Human Rights Campaign |language=en-US}}

In a 2020 study of Australian LGBTQ people, 38% of respondents reported having at least one disability.{{Cite book |last1=Hill |first1=A. O. |url=https://rainbowhealthaustralia.org.au/media/pages/research-resources/private-lives-3-national-report/3352762661-1709686054/private-lives-3-national-report.pdf |title=Private Lives 3: The health and wellbeing of LGBTIQ people in Australia |last2=Bourne |first2=A. |last3=McNair |first3=R. |last4=Carman |first4=M. |last5=Lyons |first5=A. |publisher=Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University |year=2020 |isbn=978-0-6488887-4-1 |series=ARCSHS Monograph Series No. 122 |location=Melbourne, Australia |language=en}}

In a 2022 study of Canadians with disabilities, 8.7% of the disabled population also identified as 2S (two-spirit) or LGBTQ+. The same study found that "the 2SLGBTQ+ population with disabilities is younger than the non-2SLGBTQ+ population with disabilities". Of the 2SLGBTQ+ population with disabilities, the majority (69.9%) reported a disability related to mental health.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2024-07-08 |title=A profile of 2SLGBTQ+ persons with disabilities, 2022 |url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/89-654-x/89-654-x2024002-eng.htm |access-date=2024-11-19 |website=Statistics Canada |publisher=Government of Canada}}

In China, a rough estimate of cantong, or LGBTQ people with disabilities, is about 5 million people.{{Cite web |last=Yiying |first=Fan |date=Feb 22, 2018 |title=China's Gay and Disabled Face Double Discrimination |url=https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1001654 |access-date=2023-07-21 |website=Sixth Tone}}

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Academics writing about queer theory and disability studies have drawn from one another's work, as both examine what society deems as normal and how those people outside of that definition are treated.{{Cite journal |last=Sherry |first=Mark |date=December 2004 |title=Overlaps and contradictions between queer theory and disability studies |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0968759042000284231 |journal=Disability & Society |language=en |volume=19 |issue=7 |pages=769–783 |doi=10.1080/0968759042000284231 |s2cid=218525189 |issn=0968-7599|url-access=subscription }} For example, theorist Robert McRuer has used Adrienne Rich's idea of compulsory heterosexuality to examine how society might also perpetuate "compulsory able-bodiness".{{Cite book |last=McRuer |first=Robert |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aiQlDwAAQBAJ&dq=queer+disabled&pg=PA396 |title=The Disability Studies Reader |date=2016-10-19 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-317-39786-1 |editor-last=Davis |editor-first=Lennard J. |language=en |chapter=Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence}} In Feminist, Queer, Crip Alison Kafer's "engagement with the intersections of gender and cripping time is never stronger than in the instances where she makes explicit the mainstream responses to gendered disability narratives".{{cite journal |last1=Kannen |first1=Victoria |title=Feminist, queer, crip |journal=Journal of Gender Studies |date=4 March 2015 |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=247–248 |doi=10.1080/09589236.2015.1005970|s2cid=143030310 }}

Until 1990, the World Health Organization classified homosexuality as a mental disorder. In 2019, the organization also removed "gender identity disorder", referring to transgender people, from the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems.{{Cite magazine |date=2019-05-28 |title=WHO Drops Being Transgender from List of 'Mental Disorders' |url=https://time.com/5596845/world-health-organization-transgender-identity/ |access-date=2023-08-11 |magazine=Time |language=en}}

Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), a group founded by Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, worked both to support trans and gay people and disabled people.{{Cite web |last=Brownworth |first=Victoria A. |date=2020-10-20 |title=The Intersection Of LGBTQ+ History And Disability |url=https://epgn.com/2020/10/20/the-intersection-of-lgbtq-history-and-disability/ |access-date=2023-07-21 |website=Philadelphia Gay News |language=en-US}} STAR called for the end of non-consensual psychiatric incarcerations of LGBTQ+ individuals, something Johnson had experienced in her life.

Other activists in the United States involved in both the gay rights and the disability rights movements include Kenny Fries,{{Cite web |last=Wolfe |first=Kathi |date=2022-09-28 |title=Author Kenny Fries on being queer, disabled, and Jewish |url=https://www.washingtonblade.com/2022/09/28/author-kenny-fries-on-being-queer-disabled-and-jewish/,%20https://www.washingtonblade.com/2022/09/28/author-kenny-fries-on-being-queer-disabled-and-jewish/,%20https://www.washingtonblade.com/2022/09/28/author-kenny-fries-on-being-queer-disabled-and-jewish/ |access-date=2023-07-21 |website=Washington Blade |language=en-US}} Barbara Jordan, and Connie Panzarino.{{Cite web |date=2021-12-03 |title=Pride and Protest – LGBT+ Disability Activism, 1985-1995 |url=https://review.gale.com/2021/12/03/lgbt-disability-activism-in-the-us/ |access-date=2023-07-21 |website=review.gale.com |language=en-GB}}

In the late 1970s, disabled attendees and groups were recorded at San Francisco Pride.{{Cite web |title=1977 and 1978 Gay Freedom Day Parade video |url=https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/glbt/bundles/238686?searchOffset=7 |access-date=2023-08-11 |website=GLBT Historical Society}}

In the 1980s and early 1990s, the case of Sharon Kowalski was taken up by both disability and gay rights activists. Kowalski, a lesbian, had become disabled after a car accident, and her father had been awarded custody of her. Her father then moved Kowalski to a nursing home five hours away from her partner, Karen Thompson, and prevented Thompson from visiting Kowalski. In a victory for both groups of activists, the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled that Thompson be made Kowalski's legal guardian, in line with Kowalski's wishes.

Disability Pride Month was founded in 1990, inspired by both gay and Black pride.

In June 2014, the White House hosted a panel on LGBT issues and disability.{{Cite web |date=2015-07-30 |title=Disability Justice Is LGBT Justice: A Conversation with Movement Leaders |url=https://www.americanprogress.org/article/disability-justice-is-lgbt-justice-a-conversation-with-movement-leaders/ |access-date=2023-07-21 |website=Center for American Progress |language=en}}

Until 1973, homosexuality was included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.{{Cite web |last=Winterhalter |first=Elizabeth |date=2021-05-26 |title=How LGBTQ+ Activists Got "Homosexuality" out of the DSM |url=https://daily.jstor.org/how-lgbtq-activists-got-homosexuality-out-of-the-dsm/ |access-date=2023-08-11 |website=JSTOR Daily |language=en-US}} Although many gay liberation activists celebrated its removal, others were blase or wary about aligning the wider community with psychiatric associations or providers.{{Cite journal |last=Lewis |first=Abram J. |date=2016 |title="We Are Certain of Our Own Insanity": Antipsychiatry and the Gay Liberation Movement, 1968–1980 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24616618 |journal=Journal of the History of Sexuality |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=83–113 |doi=10.7560/JHS25104 |jstor=24616618 |s2cid=146703192 |issn=1043-4070|url-access=subscription }} Before its removal, both anti-psychiatric and gay liberation activists had used homosexuality's inclusion in the DSM as leverage to criticize psychiatry as a whole.

In the late 1970s, Bobbie Lea Bennett became the first trans woman to have her gender-affirming surgery covered by Medicare. Bennett, as a wheelchair user with osteogenesis imperfecta, was already covered by the policy, which forced the courts to decide whether the surgery was considered a "legitimate medical treatment"; up until this point, transgender activists trying to have their surgeries covered under the policy had to argue that being transgender, in and of itself, was a disability.{{cite thesis |last=Matte |first=Nicholas |date=November 2014 |title=Historicizing Liberal American Transnormativities: Media, Medicine, Activism, 1960-1990 |type=Ph.D. |chapter=Sex, Disability, and Economic Discrimination |publisher=University of Toronto |chapter-url=http://hdl.handle.net/1807/68460 |access-date=28 July 2020 |pages=244–249 |hdl=1807/68460}}

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) made disability a protected class in the United States. However, the law purposefully excluded homosexuality, bisexuality, and "[t]ransvestitism, transsexualism...[and] gender identity disorders not resulting from physical impairments" from the act's definition of disability. This exclusion has led to some cases in which prosecutors have argued that gender dysphoria is a "gender identity disorder" that therefore cannot be accommodated under the ADA. In 1998, Bragdon v. Abbott confirmed that HIV was considered a protected disability under the ADA, which has been used to protect HIV-positive individuals in years since, many of whom are members of the LGBT community.

In 2017, Kate Lynn Blatt became the first trans woman who was allowed to sue her employer under the ADA for not accommodating her gender dysphoria.{{Cite news |date=2017-05-19 |title=U.S. judge allows first transgender person to sue under disability law |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-lgbt-idUSKCN18F02X |access-date=2023-07-22}}

LGBTQ+ individuals with disabilities are subject to higher rates of childhood bullying{{Cite web |date=2017-09-15 |title=Analysis: We must better address the needs of LGBT people with disabilities |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/analysis-we-must-better-address-needs-lgbt-people-disabilities-n801756 |access-date=2023-07-21 |website=NBC News |language=en}} and lack of comprehensive sex education.

LGBTQ+ individuals with disabilities who are assisted by family or caregivers may have more difficulty finding time to be intimate with or have sex with their partners.{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Jennifer |date=2017-06-22 |title=LGBTQ+ People With Developmental Disabilities Need Respect, Privacy, and Access to Community |language=en-US |work=Slate |url=https://slate.com/human-interest/2017/06/lgbtq-adults-with-developmental-disabilities-need-assistance-not-erasure.html |access-date=2023-07-21 |issn=1091-2339}} Those who live in group homes might similarly have difficulties with maintaining privacy within relationships. People who cannot drive or require assistance while traveling may have more limited opportunities to attend LGBTQ+ support groups, community spaces, or events.

Limited travel opportunities may lead some disabled LGBTQ+ people, especially those living in socially conservative areas, to pursue online or long-distance relationships.

In some cases, medical providers or other authorities will use a transgender person's disability status to deny them gender-affirming care, using the argument that the person is not capable enough to give informed consent for such care. Similarly, people may deny LGBTQ+ self-identification on the basis of someone's disability, particularly intellectual disability.{{Cite web |last1=O'Shea |first1=Amie |last2=Piantedosi |first2=Diana |date=2022-06-13 |title='What matters is hope, freedom and saying who you are.' What LGBTQ+ people with intellectual disabilities want everyone to know |url=http://theconversation.com/what-matters-is-hope-freedom-and-saying-who-you-are-what-lgbtq-people-with-intellectual-disabilities-want-everyone-to-know-184555 |access-date=2023-07-21 |website=The Conversation |language=en}}

Alternatively, LGBTQ+ individuals may avoid seeking needed medical care, such as STI testing,{{Cite web |last=Gurza |first=Andrew |author-link=Andrew Gurza |date=2016-05-20 |title=I'm a Queer Man with Disabilities & STD Testing Isn't Accessible—Something Needs to Change |url=https://www.out.com/lifestyle/2016/5/20/im-queer-man-disabilities-std-testing-isnt-accessible-something-needs-change |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=www.out.com |language=en}} or accessing disability services because of prejudiced comments or treatment by their healthcare providers.{{Cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=Elizabeth |last2=Zirnsak |first2=Tessa-May |last3=Power |first3=Jennifer |last4=Lyons |first4=Anthony |last5=Bigby |first5=Christine |date=January 2022 |title=Social inclusion of LGBTQ+ and gender diverse adults with intellectual disability in disability services: A systematic review of the literature |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jar.12925 |journal=Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities |language=en |volume=35 |issue=1 |pages=46–59 |doi=10.1111/jar.12925 |pmid=34309149 |s2cid=236431413 |issn=1360-2322|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last1=Foglia |first1=Mary Beth |last2=Fredriksen-Goldsen |first2=Karen I. |date=2014 |title=Health Disparities among LGBT Older Adults and the Role of Nonconscious Bias |journal=The Hastings Center Report |volume=44 |issue=5 |pages=S40–S44 |doi=10.1002/hast.369 |jstor=44159365 |pmid=25231786 |pmc=4365932 |issn=0093-0334}} Those who do seek medical care, but do not disclose their identity, may have adverse health consequences when their identity is not taken into account by their physicians.

LGBTQ+ individuals with disabilities that need in-home care may be especially vulnerable, as they may be less likely to have family that can care for them, and nurses or other hired caregivers may make prejudiced or uneducated statements to their patients.{{Cite web |last1=Carter |first1=Christin |date=2023-01-27 |title=The caregiver crisis hits LGBTQ+ elderly and disabled people hardest |url=https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2023/01/27/the-caregiver-crisis-hits-lgbtq-elderly-and-disabled-people-hardest/ |access-date=2023-07-21 |website=Wisconsin Examiner |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2019-06-20 |title=MPs hear of barriers facing LGBT disabled people who need social care |url=https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/mps-hear-of-barriers-facing-lgbt-disabled-people-who-need-social-care/ |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=Disability News Service |language=en-GB}}{{Cite journal |last1=Reygan |first1=Finn |last2=Henderson |first2=Neil |last3=Khan |first3=Jamil |date=January 2022 |title='I'm black, a woman, disabled and lesbian': LGBT ageing and care services at the intersections in South Africa |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1363460720975322 |journal=Sexualities |language=en |volume=25 |issue=1–2 |pages=63–78 |doi=10.1177/1363460720975322 |s2cid=229417941 |issn=1363-4607|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite news |first=Rachel|last=Timoner|date=1992-10-15 |title=Double Minority: On Being Disabled and Gay |language=English |volume=XXII |pages=25 |work=Bay Area Reporter |issue=42 |url=http://archive.org/details/BAR_19921015}} Some individuals may choose to change their appearance or behavior so as to appear straight or cisgender to caregivers. For people who are unsure of their sexual or gender identity, caregivers or assistants may be unwilling to discuss the topic with their client.

Both LGBTQ+ people and people with disabilities face high rates of sexual assault compared to the general population; for people who are both LGBTQ+ and disabled, the statistics are even higher.

Limited opportunities for employment may drive some disabled LGBTQ+ people to remained closeted at work, to avoid being fired. For disabled individuals who are out, their disability and LGBTQ+ identity may further limit job opportunities.{{Cite web |title=For queer people with disabilities, the path to acceptance is more arduous |url=http://kathmandupost.com/art-culture/2021/09/03/for-queer-people-with-disabilities-the-path-to-acceptance-is-more-arduous |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=kathmandupost.com |language=English}}

A 2020 study of American lawyers found that nearly 60% of respondents who were both LGBTQ+ and disabled reported having experienced discrimination in the workplace related to their identities.{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=LGBTQ+ lawyers and attorneys with disabilities report prevalent discrimination, ABA study says |url=https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/lawyers-with-disabilities-who-identify-as-lgbtq-report-prevalent-discrimination-aba-study-says |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=ABA Journal |language=en}}

A common complaint among disabled LGBTQ+ people is that the LGBTQ+ community does not discuss disability, and the disabled community does not discuss queer identities. This is particularly an issue among the LGBTQ+ movements in countries such as China and Nepal.

Within the LGBTQ+ community, accessibility remains an important issue.{{Cite web |last1=Martino |first1=Alan Santinele |last2=Coombs |first2=Emily |date=2023-06-25 |title=Making pride more inclusive means creating space for 2SLGBTQ+ people with disabilities |url=http://theconversation.com/making-pride-more-inclusive-means-creating-space-for-2slgbtq-people-with-disabilities-207401 |access-date=2023-07-21 |website=The Conversation |language=en}} Not all LGBTQ+ community spaces, for example, have accessible buildings or parking, sign language interpretation, Braille signage, or TTY services.{{Cite news |last=Dubreuil |first=Laurence Brisson |date=May 13, 2023 |title=Calgary queer venues lack accessibility. A new campaign could help change that |work=CBC News |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-accessible-queer-spaces-fundraiser-1.6838874 |access-date=July 21, 2023}} LGBTQ+ events, such as Pride events and marches, may have routes which are difficult to navigate for those in wheelchairs or using mobility devices, or spaces that are too overwhelming for those with sensory sensitivities.{{Cite web |last=Kim |first=Sarah |title=Pride Month Too Often Overlooks LGBTQ+ Members With Disabilities |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahkim/2019/06/24/pride-month-too-often-overlooks-lgbtq-members-with-disabilities/ |access-date=2023-07-21 |website=Forbes |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Kliem |first=Theresa |date=June 15, 2023 |title=Accessibility issues at Pride events, LGBTQ+ spaces can be isolating, say people with disabilities |work=CBC News |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/pride-2023-saskatchewan-accessibility-1.6860787}} Lectures, gatherings, or film screenings may lack sign language interpretation or closed captions. This may be further complicated by limited budgets that organizations or groups have, leaving little funding to better cater to disabled people.{{Cite news |last=Richards |first=Mary |date=25 June 1987 |title=A Silence Not Golden |volume=17 |pages=25 |work=Bay Area Reporter |issue=26 |url=https://archive.org/details/BAR_19870625/page/n23/mode/2up}}

Ableism more widely is also an issue within the LGBTQ+ community.{{Cite journal |last1=Lewis |first1=Laura Foran |last2=Ward |first2=Caroline |last3=Jarvis |first3=Noah |last4=Cawley |first4=Eleni |date=2021-07-01 |title="Straight Sex is Complicated Enough!": The Lived Experiences of Autistics Who are Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Asexual, or Other Sexual Orientations |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04696-w |journal=Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders |language=en |volume=51 |issue=7 |pages=2324–2337 |doi=10.1007/s10803-020-04696-w |pmid=32968942 |s2cid=221884388 |issn=1573-3432|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite web |last=Kelleher |first=Patrick |date=2023-01-30 |title=Gay deaf man shared 'hurtful' Grindr messages to make point about queer ableism |url=https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/01/30/lgbtq-ableism-gay-deaf/ |access-date=2023-07-21 |website=PinkNews |language=en-US}} LGBTQ+ people with disabilities have also expressed that a focus in the community on appearance can lead to disabled people feeling excluded or undesirable as partners.{{Cite web |last=Millard |first=Elizabeth |date=2022-02-14 |title=Life at the Intersection of Disability and LGBTQ+ |url=https://mdaquest.org/life-at-the-intersection-of-disability-and-lgbtq/ |access-date=2023-07-21 |website=Quest {{!}} Muscular Dystrophy Association |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |last=Mayor |first=Lola |date=2022-06-18 |title=Pride month: 'Being disabled and gay - I've faced barriers' |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-61720307 |access-date=2023-07-21}}{{Cite web |last=Jackson |first=Callum |date=2023-03-06 |title=LGBTQ+ body standards are even more menacing for disabled queer people |url=https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/03/lgbtq-body-standards-are-even-more-menacing-for-disabled-queer-people/ |access-date=2023-07-21 |website=LGBTQ+ Nation}}{{Cite web |date=2022-08-23 |title='Not hiding is an act of revolution': Dating as an LGBTQIA+ person with a disability |url=https://www.abc.net.au/everyday/disability-and-dating-in-lgbtqia-community/101339102 |access-date=2023-07-21 |website=ABC Everyday |language=en-AU}}{{cite web |last1=Jones |first1=Peter |date=26 January 2017 |title=Wheels of Change: Dating for Gay Men with Disabilities |url=https://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/wheels-of-change-dating-for-gay-men-with-disabilities/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421062339/https://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/wheels-of-change-dating-for-gay-men-with-disabilities/ |archive-date=21 April 2021 |access-date=14 March 2021 |website=Medill School of Journalism |publisher=Northwestern University}} Attitudes that disabled people are inherently asexual are also still prevalent.

Within disabled communities, homophobia and transphobia remain as important issues.

Multiple organizations have been founded that specifically aim to serve those in the LGBTQ+ community with disabilities. International organizations include Blind LGBT Pride International.{{Cite web |last=Wolfe |first=Kathi |date=2022-06-09 |title=Disabled queer people increasingly feel Pride in themselves |url=https://www.washingtonblade.com/2022/06/09/disabled-queer-people-increasingly-feel-pride-in-themselves/,%20https://www.washingtonblade.com/2022/06/09/disabled-queer-people-increasingly-feel-pride-in-themselves/,%20https://www.washingtonblade.com/2022/06/09/disabled-queer-people-increasingly-feel-pride-in-themselves/ |access-date=2023-07-21 |website=Washington Blade |language=en-US}}

In the U.S., these include Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE). In the U.K., these include Brownton Abbey,{{Cite web |date=2020-11-17 |title=5 LGBT disability organisations you should support |url=https://www.stonewall.org.uk/about-us/news/5-lgbt-disability-organisations-you-should-support |access-date=2023-07-21 |website=Stonewall |language=en}} Deaf Rainbow UK, ParaPride, and Regard. In Australia there is Inclusive Rainbow Voices (IRV){{Cite web |last=Dobson |first=Tileah |date=2023-04-22 |title=New Organisation That Advocates For LGBT+ People With Disabilities Launched In Melbourne |url=https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/new-organisation-that-advocates-for-lgbt-people-with-disabilities-launched-in-melbourne/223328 |access-date=2023-07-21 |website=Star Observer |language=en-US}} and Rainbow Rights & Advocacy.

Disabled LGBTQ+ characters in movies and television tend to be rare; a 2021 report by GLAAD found zero such characters in any major American movie releases that year.{{Cite web |date=2022-07-26 |title=These Queer, Disabled Characters Are Bringing Unfiltered Representation to Your Screens |url=https://www.them.us/story/disability-pride-month-what-to-watch-queer-films |access-date=2023-08-11 |website=Them |language=en-US}} Their 2022 report found only 27 characters - 4.5% of all counted LGBTQ+ characters - who were also disabled.{{Cite web |date=2023-03-16 |title=Where We Are on TV Report 2022-2023 - GLAAD |url=https://glaad.org/whereweareontv22/ |access-date=2023-08-14 |website=glaad.org |language=en-US}} However, some movies and television shows featured disabled and LGBTQ+ characters do exist, such as Margarita with a Straw (2014), about a bisexual student with cerebral palsy,{{Cite web |last=Carrie |date=2016-09-27 |title=Margarita With a Straw Comes to Netflix, (Almost) Delivers the Disabled Queer Character We Need |url=https://www.autostraddle.com/margarita-with-a-straw-comes-to-netflix-almost-delivers-the-disabled-queer-character-we-need-353208/ |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=Autostraddle |language=en-US}} Queer as Folk (2022), which features a wheelchair-using side character, and Special (2019), a series about a gay man with cerebral palsy.{{Cite web |title=Netflix's 'Special' hopes to break new ground for disability representation on TV |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2019/04/11/netflix-special-new-kind-disability-story-tv/3422178002/ |access-date=2023-08-14 |website=USA TODAY |language=en-US}} Such characters have also been included in some children's shows, including The Dragon Prince (2018), which has a recurring Deaf lesbian character, and Dead End: Paranormal Park (2022), which has an autistic bisexual protagonist.

Some LGBTQ+ magazines have specifically addressed a disabled audience, such as the magazine Dykes, Disability & Stuff, from Madison, Wisconsin, which was founded in the late 1980s and was published until 2001.{{Cite news |date=1988–1989 |title=Dykes, Disability and Stuff (Madison, WI) Winter, 1988-1989 Vol. 1 Issue. 3 |language=English |pages=[1]– |work=Dykes, Disability and Stuff |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/HLHJFB589813686/AHSI?sid=bookmark-AHSI&xid=8772b467 |access-date=2023-08-11}} More general LGBTQ+ magazines have also addressed disability; lesbian magazine Sinister Wisdom, for example, made "On Disability" the theme of their Winter 1989/1990 issue.{{Cite journal |last1=Ruth |first1=Barbara |last2=Edgington |first2=Amy |last3=zana |last4=Hawthorne |first4=Susan |last5=Hugs |first5=Diane |last6=Rome |first6=Jo Anne |last7=Dinnerstein |first7=Barbara N. |last8=Myers |first8=Teresa |last9=Sorella |first9=Naja |last10=Pratt |first10=Pamela |last11=Winnow |first11=Jackie |last12=Dee |first12=Mandy |last13=Lauby |first13=Adrienne |last14=Lambert |first14=Sandra |last15=Smith |first15=Tee |date=1990-01-01 |title=On Disability |url=https://jstor.org/stable/community.28044765 |journal=Sinister Wisdom |issue=39}}

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