Disaster Response Must Help Protect LGBTQ+ Communities

• This article examines why LGBTQ+ individuals are especially impacted by natural disasters, the attempts at making emergency management more inclusive, and the broader historical context of disaster relief in the United States.
• Students will learn about the struggles of LGBTQ+ communities during natural disasters because of discrimination, and the inequities in emergency management and disaster relief in the United States.
  

Positives

• This article examines issues of race, gender, sexuality, and socioeconomic status.
• This article is written by three members of the LGBTQ+ community.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should have a basic understanding of what LGBTQ+ stands for and how that community may experience discrimination.

Differentiation

• This article could supplement a lesson on how climate change leads to more natural disasters and how these disasters influence different communities.
• This article could enhance a classroom discussion on how bigotry seeps into many aspects of existence. 
• For ELLs, it may be useful to define some words before these students dive into the reading.
• This article could be part of a lesson on how the socioeconomic, cultural, and physical aspects of an environment can impact one's personal health.
  

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