12/15/2025
“Greetings,
I’m reaching out about an unprecedented, unfunded effort to ensure that we capture the effect of this historical moment on our community.
As you know, everyone connected to the LGBTQIA+ community – including their loved ones and those whose jobs involve LGBTQIA+ communities (like all of us!) has been affected by what has happened this year. And yet because of the widespread defunding of LGBTQIA+ health research and the elimination of SOGI questions from federal health surveillance, our ability to SHOW and TRACK what is happening has been cut off at the knees.
That’s why some of us have joined forces to launch a completely unfunded, all-volunteer, hand-to-hand effort to measure the specific mental and physical health effects of the past 11 months, on everyone connected to LGBTQIA+ communities. We’re asking you to take this short, 25 min survey, to share it with your family and friends (our IRB approval includes YOUTH!), and to share it with your colleagues. Also, we have PARTNERED with over 50 state and national organizations to help get the word out— we are giving community partners their OWN unique survey links so that we can rapidly provide them with all the findings that are specific to their own constituencies. The survey will be open until the end of January, and we hope to give everyone the results by February 1.
A unique aspect of the survey is its inclusion of “the workforce” – health care providers, therapists, advocates, teachers, researchers, day care providers, social workers, etc. Anyone whose life intersects with the LGBTQIA+ community has been impacted by what’s happened, no matter their identity, and our goal is to show the full scope of this impact. We’ve included questions about funding cuts, staff changes, DEI changes, program changes. If you have connections to listservs or organizations that serve the LGBTQIA+ community PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH THEM!!!”
-Lisa Diamond and her team!
Link in bio: https://csbsutah.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9WyKRPONJuL67Yy
