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• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH

People who are lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr (LGBT) are members of every muny. Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people are more likely to experience certa health-related challeng and dispari. Je Meda-Martínez, 1 Carlos Ss-Ortega, 1, 2, * María Montserrat Sánchez-Lorente, 1, 2 Eva María Sosa-Palan, 1, 2 Pedro García-Martínez, 1, 2 and María Isabel Mármol-López1, 2Igor Grabovac, Amic EdorAbstractBackground: Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people prent poorer mental and physil health rults pared to the heterosexual and cisgenr populatn.

IntroductnLGBT is an ialism that refers to the llective of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people. Other ialisms such as LGBTIAQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex, asexual, aromantic, and queer people) or LGBT+ are also often ed to explicly clu other groups; however, the acronym LGBT will be ed this article bee s e is most wispread worldwi. The term lbian refers to women who only feel sexual-affective attractn to other women, gay refers to men who only feel sexual-affective attractn to other men, and bisexual refers to people who feel sexual-affective attractn to people of the same or different genrs to themselv.

In gay and bisexual men, higher rat of transmissn of the human immunoficiency vis (HIV), viral hepatis, and other sexually transmted fectns (STIs); anal, prostate, tticle, and lon ncers; and body image and eatg disorrs have been scribed [10, 11, 12]. Furthermore, the specific problems of bisexual people are not wily unrstood bee many studi have clud this populatn wh the ‘homosexual’ tegory, thereby renrg them visible. We ed The Health of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr People: Buildg a Foundatn for Better Unrstandg report by the Instute of Medice (IOM), orred by the Natnal Instut of Health (NIH), as a amework for this lerature review [24].