High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Racism in the LGBT community is racial prejudice within lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities. LGBT communities span all ethnicities, races, and cultures, and often these communities are a mixture of other cultures newly defined by sexual orientation and gender identity. Racial tolerance and diversity, especially in a community which already receives discrimination from homophobia, is seen as an important issue within these communities themselves. Some feel the diversity of LGBT communities, in many cases forcing members to collaborate with people they may otherwise not work with, has strengthened these communities as a whole.