Identity concealment affects all sexual minority individuals, with potentially complex mental
health implications. Concealing a sexual minority identity can simultaneously generate the …

Recognition of sexual and gender diversity in the 21st century challenges normative
assumptions of intimacy that privilege heterosexual monogamy and the biological family …

Using data from the first national probability sample of Black, White, and Latinx sexual
minority people in the United States, we examined whether and how sexual identity …

Abstract Background Sexual minorities (SMs) experience elevated rates of substance use
behaviors and disorders relative to heterosexuals; minority stress is theorized to contribute …

Few societal attitudes and opinions have changed as quickly as those regarding sexual
minority people and rights. In the context of dramatic social change, there have been …

Introduction Lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals have elevated suicide risk, but there is
little information available about how this risk may vary by gender, age, and race/ethnicity …

This study investigated longitudinal trajectories of stigma (ie, enacted, anticipated,
internalized, concealed); stress-sensitive mental health disorder symptoms (ie, depression …

Understandings of sexual and gender identity have expanded beyond traditional binaries,
yet we know little about adolescents' appropriation of identity labels across diverse …

Purpose Sexual minorities experience significant health disparities across a variety of
mental, behavioral, and physical health indicators. Yet, an understanding of the etiology and …

Across the lifespan, most sexual minority individuals experience the closet—a typically
prolonged period in which no significant others know their sexual identity. This paper …