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Methods

As part of a larger ethnographic study of help-seeking behavior among sexual and gender minority groups in New Mexico, we conducted semistructured interviews between February 2004 and July 2005 with 38 LGBT rural residents. The majority lived in two counties that were vast in size (5,449 and 5,858 square miles); rates of poverty exceeded the national average in each county (20.5 percent and 36.1 percent).