The data collected through the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency’s 2023 LGBTIQ III survey is showing that as many as 34.1% of LGBTIQ people in Europe identify with a religion. Yet, the specific experiences of over a third of Europe’s queer community are going largely unnoticed. Together with the sociologists from the Polish Academy of Sciences, Dorota Hall and Dariusz Przybysz, the European Forum embarked on a deep dive into the survey data to check whether the lived experience of queer people of, primarily Christian, faith differ from that of their non-faith-based counterparts. Thanks to the responses from more than 100,000 LGBTIQ people collected by FRA, we are now able to see how identifying or not with a faith correlates with higher or lower levels of experienced discrimination or violence, openness to friends and relatives, undergoing conversion practices or personal wellbeing. Findings in this report can equip policy-makers, faith-based actors, civil society organisations, donors and mental health professionals with insight necessary to meet the distinct needs of this vast subgroup of the queer population of Europe.

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