ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected LGBT disabled residents of the United States by examining data from the 2021 U.S. Census Household Pulse Survey. Specifically, Phase 3.2 (Week 34 through Week 39) will be evaluated as it relates to LGBT disabled residents of the United States. All six weeks are combined as one data sample of 382,908 survey respondents, and the data is representative of 250,265,449 adults aged 18 and older in the United States. An average of 5,061 LGBT people took each of the six surveys for a total of 30,365 LGBT respondents out of 382,908 surveys or about 7.9% of the U.S. population of adults aged 18 and older. In total, 1.7% of all survey respondents (out of 325,320 respondents who selected a disability type response) are LGBT and disabled (21.2% of LGBT are disabled compared to 13.4% of non-LGBT), or 5,466 total LGBT and disabled respondents averaging 911 LGBT and disabled respondents per survey. This chapter will examine poverty, work loss, vaccination rates, and economic considerations from the Household Pulse Survey data.
