In Just Like Us last two surveys, it found that Black queer youth struggle more than their white peers in school. (Robin Utrecht/Getty)
Black LGBT+ school pupils are less likely to feel safe at school than their white peers, new research has found.
LGBT+ young people’s charity Just Like Us reported that just 52 per cent of Black queer students stated they felt safe in school on a daily basis in the past year, compared to 57 per cent of Asian pupils and 59 per cent of white respondents.
Black LGBT+ pupils were twice as likely as white peers to say they have never felt safe in school. Six per cent of Black respondents chose this answer, compared with three per cent of white pupils.
The legendary Lady Phyll opened up about learning to accept herself in a new interview.
The co-founder and executive director of UK Blade Pride shared her story on the
Mind the Gap podcast, where she reflected on how “trying to be accepted” for who she is “was the hardest thing”.
“I didn’t realise that it was about me accepting myself first,” she said.
In the interview, she detailed her journey from growing up in a British Ghanian household to founding UK Black Pride – Europe’s largest celebration for LGBT+ people of African, Asian, Caribbean, Latin American and Middle Eastern descent.
Last time the event was able to take place in-person was 2019, where Toya Delazy and MNEK performed. (Quintina Valero/Getty)
UK Black Pride has launched its inaugural Community Survey to find out more about LGBT+ Black people and people of colour in the UK.
Titled
We Will Be Heard, the survey will be used to inform UK Black Pride’s first Community Action Plan, which will decide where funding should be invested in order to best support the community.
It has been launched, in part, in response to the government’s National LGBT+ Survey, in which over 92 per cent of the responses received were from white individuals.