Marginality and Global LGBT Communities

1. Front Matter

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2. Objectives and Significance of the Volume

   • Sheri R. Notaro

   Pages 1-22

3. Legal Status and Challenges to Homosexuality

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   Pages 23-51

4. Access to Health Care

   • Sheri R. Notaro

   Pages 53-74

5. HIV/AIDS

   • Sheri R. Notaro

   Pages 75-110

6. Substance Use and Abuse

   • Sheri R. Notaro

   Pages 111-137

7. Mental Health

   • Sheri R. Notaro

   Pages 139-164

8. Violence

   • Sheri R. Notaro

   Pages 165-184

9. A Framework for the Future

   • Sheri R. Notaro

   Pages 185-195

10. Back Matter

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This book examines the interconnectedness of LGBT civil and political rights, bias, discrimination, homophobia, and LGBT health disparities both in the United States and globally. According to Notaro, the failure to extend equitable civil and political rights to LGBT individuals—combined with recent reversal of past gains—will continue to be associated with bias, stigma and discrimination toward the LGBT community. In turn, this sustained bias and stigma fosters a host of LGBT health disparities, including access to culturally competent health care, HIV/AIDS, substance use, homelessness, suicide, and violence. Thus, the bias and discrimination levied at the LGBT community is discussed as a major explanatory factor in life-threatening health disparities experienced by the community, particularly in urban areas worldwide. The volume provides a framework for considering future research that must identify ways to prevent these health disparities, being mindful of and harnessing the protective factors and supports that exist within the diverse LGBT community.

• Urban Marginality
• Urban Studies
• Urban Sociology
• LGBT Community
• Discrimination
• Health Disparities
• HIV/AIDs
• Mental Health
• Suicide
• Underserved Populations
• LGBT Policy
• Civil Rights
• Political Rights
• Homelessness
• Homophobia
• gender and sexuality
• urban geography and urbanism

• Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA

  Sheri R. Notaro

Sheri R. Notaro, PhD, is a former Associate Dean and current member of the affiliated faculty of the Center for Urban Research and Public Policy and the Interdisciplinary Program in Urban Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. She is also the editor of Health Disparities Among Under-Served Populations: Implications for Research, Policy and Praxis (2012) and a co-author of Poverty and Place: Cancer Prevention among Low-Income Women of Color (2018).

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