New Resource Focusing on Queers with Disabilities

By Charlie McNabb

A new resource focusing on queers with disabilities is now available in the Professional Tools section of the GLBTRT website.

Both queer people and people with disabilities are minorities in society. To be queer and disabled, then, is a double marginalization. In addition, people with disabilities tend to be perceived either as nonsexual (in the case of physical and intellectual disabilities) or as hypersexual (in the case of psychiatric disabilities). Therefore, media portrayals of disabled people with healthy and active sexual lives are rare and somewhat radical; even more so when they do not fit into heteronormative categories.

It is important for people to see themselves in the media they consume. This resource was created to help queer people with disabilities locate media that recognizes and celebrates their identities. Allies and family members may find it useful to better understand their friends and family members. Public and academic libraries may wish to take these resources into consideration when building collections for these demographics.

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