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MENTAL HEALTH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) YOUTH
Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex people; vlence and discrimatn based on sexual orientatn, genr inty, sex characteristics * lgbt articles 2014 *
Around the world, lbian, gay, bi, trans and tersex (LGBTI) people ntue to face wispread stigma, excln and discrimatn, cludg tn, employment and health re – as well as wh hom and muni.
Human Rights Watch works for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr peopl' rights, and wh activists reprentg a multiplicy of inti and issu. Published fal eded form as:PMCID: PMC4887282NIHMSID: NIHMS789458AbstractToday’s lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) youth e out at younger ag, and public support for LGBT issu has dramatilly creased, so why do LGBT youth ntue to be at high risk for promised mental health?
Keywords: LGBT, sexual orientatn, genr inty, youthINTRODUCTIONIn the perd of only two s, there has been dramatic emergence of public and scientific awarens of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) liv and issu.
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This awarens n be traced to larger soccultural shifts unrstandgs of sexual and genr inti, cludg the emergence of the “gay rights” movement the 1970s and the advent of HIV/AIDS the 1980s.
Huge stris were ma buildg off the momentum of 2013, makg 2014 one of the biggt years for the LGBT muny. Progrs was ma for same sex marriage and the many obstacl for gay rights and equaly were challenged. Gay upl n * lgbt articles 2014 *
Yet the first public and rearch attentn to young LGBTs foced explicly on mental health: A small number of studi the 1980s began to intify ncerng rat of reported suicidal behavr among “gay” youth, and a US feral report on “gay youth suici” (Gibson 1989) beme ntroversial both polics and rearch (Rsell 2003).
Most of the knowledge base has foced on sexual inti (and historilly mostly on gay and lbian inti), wh much ls empiril study of mental health among transgenr or genr-nonnformg youth. Historil trends social acceptance the Uned Stat show, for example, that 43% of US adults agreed that “gay or lbian relatns between nsentg adults should be legal” 1977; by 2013 that number had grown to 66% (Gallup 2015). Historil trends societal attus, age trends peer attus, and the cle ag at which lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) youth e out.