This report captures the methods, findings, and recommendations of a project entitled Out in Public: Impacts of Public Gender-Based Violence against 2SLGBTQ+ Youth.

The focus of the project was public gender-based violence (GBV), which is any act of physical, sexual, or psychological violence that targets people based on their gender identity or sexual orientation in public spaces.

The specific aims of this project were to:

• Strengthen intersectional knowledge of 2SLGBTQ+ young peoples’ experiences with public GBV in Canada,
• Analyze the impacts of this violence on 2SLGBTQ+ young peoples’ mental health and wellbeing, and
• Use the data for 2SLGBTQ+, youth-serving, and anti-GBV organizations across Canada to better understand and thereby address public GBV against 2SLGBTQ+ young people.

Recommendations were sought from the youth in this study, intended for various audiences, namely government, service providers, leaders of businesses and other organizations, people working in educational institutions, parents, and caregivers.

This project was conducted by Wisdom2Action in collaboration with Simon Fraser University’s Researching Environments that Affirm 2S/LGBTQ+ Identities, Relationships & Mental Health Collaborative team. The project was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.