Disabled people experience discrimination in most areas of their lives. Many disabled people have to live on subsistence benefits because of discrimination in the workplace. A low income plus negative attitudes and stereotypes means that disabled people are often actively discouraged from seeking a social life that others would take for granted.
This can often have a severe impact on disabled lesbian, gay, and bisexual people, who often rely on a social life for support and as a means of meeting other LGB people. As a result, many disabled lesbians and gay men are isolated with little or no contact with others. In addition, negative attitudes to disabled people are common in lesbian and gay communities and there is a serious lack of access to clubs, pubs, political and social events.
The Disability Discrimination Act was passed to introduce new measures aimed at ending discrimination. It protects disabled people in the areas of employment, the provision of goods, facilities and services and the selling, letting or managing of land or premises. In addition, the DDA requires schools, colleges and universities to provide information for disabled people and allows the Government to set minimum standards to assist disabled people to use public transport easily.
The Disability Discrimination Act describes a disabled person as anyone ‘with a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect upon their ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities’. This is intended to be a fairly wide definition.
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