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Contents:
- MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENG OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE: AN TEGRATED LERATURE REVIEW
- MENTAL HEALTH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) YOUTH
MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENG OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE: AN TEGRATED LERATURE REVIEW
Peter Hegarty, PhD, discs his own rearch on dory gaydar and ntug discrimatn agast LGBTQ people. * lgbt psychology and mental health *
Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people experience the followg mental health challeng: emotnal distrs, stigmatisatn, victimisatn, discrimatn and barriers to accsg healthre servic. Keywords: LGBT, mental health dispari, discrimatn, stigmatisatn, victimisatnIntroductnThe acronym LGBTQ (also LGBTQAP+, LGBTQA, GLBTIQ, LGBT, LGBTQ and other alternat) is an umbrella term that stands for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex, and queer or qutng people.
MENTAL HEALTH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) YOUTH
This acronym has s origs the shorter versn lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT), which vers a heterogeneo group of LGBT people who often feature together as a group efforts to ga better social reprentatn and more polil support (Salmen 2015:11). The LGBT dividuals have unique experienc that are shaped by multiple factors, such as race/ethnicy, soc-enomic stat, geographil lotn and age, not jt sexual orientatn (Farmer & Yancu 2015:37) lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people differ om ‘tradnal’ mori two aspects: (1) they are not necsarily regnisable through physil characteristics and (2) they are still perceived many ntexts as actg agast natural procs (Takács 2015:10).
The people suffer om var forms of soc-enomic and cultural jtic, but mostly they feel they are nied regnn, meang that heterosexualy is privileged and homosexualy is valuated (Takács 2015:9).
The belief that other sexual orientatns are abnormal or ferr to heterosexualy is a source of opprsn, rultg heterosexism and homophobic attus, creatg a hostile climate for LGBT people (Mostert, Gordon & Kriegler 2015:116; Salmen 2015:11). N = 914 subjects who had sexual partners of the same sex the past 12 months, the past 5 years, or sce age 18, reprentative sample of sexual mori om the non-stutnalised English-speakg USA populatn aged 18 and vtigate whether stctural stigma (livg muni wh high levels of anti-gay prejudice) creas the risk of premature mortaly for sexual mori. N = 10 members of a high school gay-straight alliance the north-eastern Uned StatTo terme the feasibily and acceptabily of a mental health promotn programme to addrs mory strsors and promote pg skills amongst LGBTQ youth.