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LGBTQ People with Disabilities

Stephen, who has cerebral palsy, is a disability and gay rights campaigner and uses Tik Tok as a way to raise awareness on the issues. In his videos, he uses sarcasm and humour to raise awareness and address some of the misconceptions he experiences as a disabled gay person.

So what I did was just walk out because I've not no time for ableism. Skip to content. In the video below, Mic editor Elizabeth Plank talks with Paul, a young man from Brooklyn, who has Down syndrome and also happens to be gay.

Stephen, who is from Manchester but lives in London, says even now when he goes on dates he experiences ableism which can feel "dehumanising". It feels like I'm in the middle and I have no identity.

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But he doesn't feel like he is limited by his disability and has just been accepted to study a MA in photography at the Royal College of Art in London. Extraterrestrial beings travel the galaxy to free men oppressed by females to make way for an entirely-homosexual society.

[1][7][8] According to the Movement Advance Project inan estimated 3 to 5 million lesbian, gay, bisexual and. Stephen's cerebral palsy means he has a carer and uses a wheelchair if he's travelling long distances - for example retarded an airport.

I'm not particularly proud to be part of that community as a disabled person. It's his reaction to people who assume gay he must be straight or doesn't have any sexual feelings simply because he's disabled. When Stephen he told his family he was gay, he says it wasn't really a big thing as he has two older sisters who are lesbians.

In studies looking at populations in the United States, LGBTQ populations report higher rates of disability compared to the heterosexual and cisgender majorities. But he admits sometimes he doesn't feel like he's part of the LGBT community because he often comes up against "ableism" - discrimination against people with disabilities.

In general, studies have found that LGBTQ+ populations report higher rates of disability than the general population. Stephen has been using Tik Tok for less than a year but already has 48, followers and 1. Stephen says he's been denied access to clubs due to his disability.

Stephen, 24, says the ableism he experiences means he often doesn't feel like he "has an identity" within the LGBT space. Someone called me spaghetti hands so I made a funny video about having spaghetti hands. But green gay was more of a surprise to people at his secondary school because he was just seen as the "person in retarded wheelchair".

Gayniggers from Gay Space: Directed by Morten Lindberg. Stephen says even though he gets some hateful comments, he also has lots of positive ones too. Stephen says he experiences ableism when out on dates. Share Save. Disability: 'People assume I can't be gay because I'm disabled'.

Stephen believes people often see those with a disability as being asexual because of the way disability is portrayed in the media. People need to stop looking at the physical and start really looking at people.

Stephen believes better representation of disabled people in the media would help combat ableism and discrimination in society. He and his mother discuss with Plank the way the word “gay” is used pejoratively in a similar way to the “R” word and the harmful effect these words can have on people.

He believes the show The Undateables - which follows disabled people on dates - is "patronising" and "toxic" for disability representation.