The concept of intersectionality highlights the interactions between people’s multiples identities and systems of oppression and the resulting complex outcomes. This review focuses on the interconnections between these experiences, using Kimberlé Crenshaw’s theory of intersectionality, which argues people experience different and multiple oppressions in response to their different identities-for example, a person living in poverty, a person’s ethnicity, their gender-which compounds negative health and social outcomes. The key themes are poverty, ethnicity and racism, substance use, mental health, sexual abuse, foster care, LGBTIQ+ discrimination and stigma, family, survival sex and sex work, physical ill-health and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), and shelter inaccessibility. This literature review aims to clarify the relationships between LGBTIQ+ identity and the key themes in the literature. definition is used in this paper, as it is a more comprehensive definition of homelessness. Homelessness thus includes rough sleeping, couch surfing, living in shelters and women’s refuges, and living in cars, caravans, and tents.

Severe housing deprivation consists of experiencing any two of three categories inadequate privacy and control inadequate security of tenure and inadequate/uninhabitable structure.

argue homelessness should be replaced by the concept of severe housing deprivation, which includes two main criteria (1) that a person is living in severely inadequate housing due to (2) a lack of access to housing that meets a minimum adequacy standard (rather than living in such circumstances by choice). The goal of this review is to identify the key themes in the existing research, and analyse how these themes interact to reinforce the discrimination and stigma faced by LGBTIQ+ people who experience homelessness.Įdgar defines homelessness as exclusion from physical, social, and legal domains, and exclusion from any one or two of these domains is defined as housing exclusion. Intersectional research conversations need to occur. In researching factors of LGBTIQ+ homelessness in siloes, we are at risk of falling into scattered, disjointed understandings of the issue, resulting in piecemeal solutions. Despite this, much of the existing literature focuses on specific elements of LGBTIQ+ homelessness, and often does not consider the intersections of these elements. LGBTIQ+ people comprise an estimated 20–40% of homeless populations, whilst only comprising 5–10% of the wider population. Multiple studies have shown LGBTIQ+ people are more likely to be homeless than non-LGBTIQ+ people. The aim of this review is to explore the intersections of factors associated with both homelessness and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer, and other diverse sexual orientations and gender identities (LGBTIQ+) in order to examine their role in experiences of LGBTIQ+ homelessness.

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