The Health of Sexual Minorities

This is the first concise handbook on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) health in the past few years. It breaks the myths, breaks the silence, and breaks new ground on this subject. This resource offers a multidimensional picture of LGBT health across clinical and social disciplines to give readers a full and nuanced understanding of these diverse populations. It contains real-world matters of definition and self-definition, meticulous analyses of stressor and health outcomes, a extensive coverage of research methodology concerns, and critical insights into the sociopolitical context of LGBT individuals? health and lives.

Social and behavioral scientists and students in public health and health-related fields, public health professionals, and health practitioners (physicians and nurses, social workers, therapists and counselors) interested in the health and well-being of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people