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Study: Latina Lesbians in Chicago Face Discrimination

The first research of its kind, “Latina portrait: Latina queer women in Chicago,” was released last week after years of struggling to gain funding for a comprehensive study of a population of women who have flown completely under the radar. That’s despite the fact that, according to data analyses from the Williams Institute at the UCLA school of Law Census, women comprise almost 60 percent of all Illinois same-sex couple households, and Hispanics are the largest ethnic minority in the state. The study, which was based on a sample of 300 women, revealed that 48 percent of women said they feel that there is a lot of racism in the Caucasian lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered community. Similarly, 17 percent agreed that they are discriminated against because of their race/ethnicity in places specializing in services for predominantly Caucasian LGBT communities. Nine percent of the respondents indicated that racism was currently one of the greatest sources of stress in their lives. Click here to read more.
 
 



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