There are an estimated 1.3 million LGBT foreign-born adults in the U.S. whose needs are largely invisible to policy-makers and service providers due to gaps in data collection systems. Thus, policy-makers, as well as LGBT- and immigrant-focused service organizations, know very little about the ways in which the experiences of LGBT immigrants are similar and different from their LGBT US-born and non-LGBT immigrant counterparts. We hypothesize that there will be significant differences in socioeconomic and health characteristics between LGBT immigrants and non-LGBT immigrants, as well as differences between LGBT immigrants and U.S.-born LGBT adults. LGBT immigrants are expected to have the lowest SES and poorest mental health of all groups and plan to will produce information about the socioeconomic status and well-being of LGBT immigrants in relation to that of non-LGBT immigrants and US-born LGBT adults.
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