Highlights of the specific mental health needs among gay and bisexual men.
Contents:
- MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENG OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE: AN TEGRATED LERATURE REVIEW
- MENTAL HEALTH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) YOUTH
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENG OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE: AN TEGRATED LERATURE REVIEW
* mental health issues in the lgbt community *
Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN): natnal work of tors, stunts, and lol chapters workg to give stunts a safe, supportive, and LGBTQ+ clive tn.
Transgenr youth face further dispari as they are twice as likely to experience prsive symptoms, serly nsir suici, and attempt suici pared to cisgenr lbian, gay, bisexual, queer and qutng youth.
High school stunts who intify as lbian, gay or bisexual are more than four tim as likely to have attempted suici pared to their heterosexual peers.
MENTAL HEALTH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) YOUTH
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.
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
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).