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Overview

Around the world, people are under attack for who they are.

Living as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, gender diverse or intersex (LGBTI) person can be life-threatening in a number of countries across the globe. For those who do not live with a daily immediate risk to their life, discrimination on the basis of one’s sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression and sex characteristics, can have a devastating effect on physical, mental and emotional well-being for those forced to endure it.

Discrimination and violence against LGBTI people can arrive in many forms, from name-calling, bullying, harassment, and gender-based violence, to existence denied a job or appropriate healthcare. Protests to uphold the rights of LGBTI people also meet suppression across the globe. 

The range of unequal treatment faced is extensive and damaging and could be based on:

  • your sexual orientation (who you’re attracted to)
  • gender identity (how you self-identify, irrespective of the sex assigned at birth)
  • gender expression (how you express your gender, for example through your clothing, hair or mannerisms),
  • sex characteristics (for example, your genitals, chromosomes, reproductive

    LGBTQIA Resource Center Glossary

    GLOSSARY

    The terms and definitions below are always evolving, switching and often mean other things to different people. They are provided below as a starting indicate for discussion and sympathetic. This Glossary has been collectively built and created by the staff members of the LGBTQIA Resource Center since the preceding s.

    These are not universal definitions. This glossary is provided to help provide others a more thorough but not entirely comprehensive understanding of the significance of these terms. You may even consider asking someone what they signify when they use a term, especially when they use it to illustrate their identity. Ultimately it is most important that each individual define themselves for themselves and therefore also define a word for themselves.

     

    “If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.” -Audre Lorde

    This glossary contains terms, such as ableism and disability, that may not be considered directly related to identities of sexuality or gender. These terms are vital to acknowledge as part of our mission to challenge all forms of oppression

    1Introduction

    REPORT ORGANIZATION

    This report is organized into seven chapters. Chapter 2 provides context for understanding LGBT health status by defining sexual orientation and gender persona, highlighting historical events that are pertinent to LGBT health, providing a demographic overview of LGBT people in the United States, examining barriers to their care, and using the example of HIV/AIDS to illustrate some important themes. Chapter 3 addresses the topic of conducting analyze on the health of LGBT people. Specifically, it reviews the major challenges associated with the behavior of research with LGBT populations, presents some commonly used research methods, provides information about available information sources, and comments on best practices for conducting research on the health of LGBT people.

    As noted, in preparing this notify, the committee found it helpful to discuss health issues within a life-course framework. Chapters 4, 5, and 6 review, respectively, what is known about the current health status of LGBT populations through the life course, divided into childhood/adolescence, early/middle adulthood, and later adulthood. Each of these chapters addresses the fo

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