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The Cuts - the impact on LGBTQ communities

2nd January 2011

We are all affected by public spending cuts, whether as workers or in the services being cut from our communities. It is this government’s intention to make ordinary people pay the price for an economic crisis which they did not cause.

The savage attacks on the public sector - both in terms of jobs and services - and the cuts in welfare will mean that there will be a disproportionate impact on women, disabled, LGBT and black and minority ethnic people. The cuts will be felt by the most disadvantaged who bear no responsibility for the banking crisis but will now suffer its harshest consequences.

In a series of articles the LRC has asked key campaigning organisations to explain how the cuts will impact upon particular communities, entrenching disadvantage.

The third article in this series comes from Left Front Art. Download the paper here. As well as looking at the impact of cuts on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) communities, the paper also examines how LGBTQ issues have been marginalised.

Download the paper.

Background

Across the country working people are losing their jobs and their homes. Meanwhile the bankers who plunged us into this crisis have been bailed out with billions of pounds of our money. It’s time to fight back. Their Crisis Not Ours! is the LRC’s campaign to bring together workers, pensioners, the unemployed, students, those facing repossession and all those suffering because of an economic crisis that has been imposed on us. The campaign is supporting the demands of the People’s Charter. [continue...]