Questions and Topics We Can Help You To Answer:
Paper Instructions:

Identify the issue, which can be broad, e.g. health care barriers for LGBTQ people, violence within or against LGBTQ communities, the impact of intersecting oppressions (around race, class, ethnicity, ability, immigration status, HIV status, etc.) on LGBTQ people, poverty within LGBTQ communities, etc., or it could be very specific, e.g. police profiling of trans Latinx women around sex work, relationship violence for bisexual-identified women, HIV risk among young MSM of color, etc.  PLEASE NOTE: You will need approval from the professor of the issue you identify before writing/submitting the paper.
Identify challenges and obstacles for LGBTQ people in accessing resources, including safety, support, and services around the issue you identified. This should be explored fairly thoroughly in this paper.
Identify one or more potential solution(s) to the challenges and obstacles you identified. Solutions can include policy change, best or promising practices around services, new interventions, including any.  You must include information on groups actively working on the solutions, e.g. legislative advocacy groups, community organizing groups, service organizations, local activists, etc. Potential solutions should be briefly identified and assessed at a high level, but deeper exploration of one solution will be part of the next assignment.
Share how this learning will impact your practice, including support, training, or experience you plan to seek out to support your own cultural competency, and strengthen your ability to support and ally with marginalized LGBTQ people and communities.