ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended many aspects of daily life across the globe, though orders to shelter in place and fears about the spread of the virus have had a disparate impact on minority communities. Sexual and gender minority communities have served as a lightning rod for political and religious scapegoating during this era, and increased discriminatory acts have occurred globally. This chapter explores some of the forms of bias that have been amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, both in the type of actions ostensibly intended to prevent the spread of the virus and the more common phenomena of preexisting sites of discrimination becoming amplified within the context of a pandemic.
