As Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT+) History Month comes to a close in the UK, humanitarians should be thinking about how to take a stance against homo-, bi- and transphobia with them into crisis response.
Individuals and groups with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) face a range of complex but often unseen harms in crisis settings. These range from particular protection risks of violence and abuse to exclusion from aid distributions that are based on traditional models of the family, refusal from gender-specific shelters or programming, and denial of their self-identification in registration processes.