Rationale Quantitative health disparities research has increasingly employed
intersectionality as a theoretical tool to investigate how social characteristics intersect to …

Background Over the past 20 years, a growing literature has demonstrated that sexual
minority women have greater weight than heterosexual women, prompting concern that they …

National health initiatives emphasize the importance of eliminating health disparities among
historically disadvantaged populations. Yet, few studies have examined the range of health …

Background Recent studies have identified substantial health disparities between lesbian,
gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals compared to heterosexuals. However, possible …

Despite the robust, graded association between socioeconomic status (SES) and health,
SES has largely been ignored in the field of psychology and in lesbian, gay, and bisexual …

Despite the prominence of poverty in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, two-spirit,
and other sexual and gender minorities (LGBTQ2S+) in Canada, studies that centre the …

For many lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals, stigma may represent a psychosocial
stressor that can disrupt sleep and impair health. The present study tested a stigma model of …

We used logistic regression on nationally representative data (General Social Survey, N=
10,668 and N= 6680) to examine how sexual minority status related to happiness. We …

The authors build on previous stress theories by drawing attention to the concept of
anticipatory couple-level minority stressors (ie, stressors expected to occur in the future that …

Two key components of end-of-life planning are (1) informal discussions about future care
and other end-of-life preferences and (2) formal planning via living wills and other legal …