LGBT Face Discrimination

Although, in many countries progress has been made with the legalizations of same-sex marriage, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community discloses that they fear exposing their sexual orientation at the workplace due to facing negative consequences. It is estimated that 40 percent of the LGB community and 97 of the transgendered community face discrimination in the workplace. This issue is on a societal level thus the government has to enforce regulations and laws to ensure the LGBT community does not get discriminated against. Using the conflict and functional theory I contend that the LGBT community faces discrimination in the workplace because of stereotypes and prejudice.
Firstly, the LGBT community faces discrimination in the workplace due to the stereotypical …show more content…
Many members of the community face a negative outlook because of the perceived characteristics of this minority group. Many gay men face discrimination especially in the sports and entertainment field. Three out of the five men that were interviewed had a negative experience. Two men from NCAA were fired immediately after they came out and NFL players harassed the third man. Moreover, the locker room caused gay men great anxiety because of the homophobic behaviour and languages that usually take place. (Men at sports, 3683,240) Many on-field players felt that if they were to come out at work, their co-workers would use inexperienced judgement to discriminate against those individuals. Similarly, the LGB face the same type of prejudice even working as a police officer. A wide variety of police officers were surveyed from non-uniform police officers to the senior police officers. All have been victimized, as there is a homophobic discrimination in training, deployment and promotion. With the society having false and inaccurate assumptions of the LGB group, there will be