RESOURCES: Review - The barriers that isolate gay and D/deafpeople

The authors explore the common processes by which these two different groups of vulnerable young people become marginalised at home, in educational institutions, in the workplace and within their own communities. Using qualitative methods - interviews with young people, retrospective biographical work with older people and interviews with service providers - and a questionnaire survey, they uncovered the ways in which rejection and discrimination unfolded in different aspects of these young people's lives.

It is a story of far more than double jeopardy; more one of multiple jeopardy. When, for example, lesbian or gay young people find themselves losing family support, they also discover that alternative potential sources of support, such as other housing provision, or education contexts, are equally judgmental. The authors point to widespread institutional homophobia that corrodes possibilities for acceptance and inclusion.