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Sexual Stigma: Putting Sexual Minority Health Issues in Context

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The Health of Sexual Minorities

Abstract

In the United States today, lesbians, gay men, bisexual women, and bisexual men are stigmatized. They are subjected to explicit and subtle discrimination, marginalized or made virtually invisible by many of society’s institutions, and often vilified. To understand the health-related experiences and behaviors of sexual minorities, it is necessary to examine this stigma and prejudice, including its sources and dimensions, how it is enacted, and how it is experienced. Such an examination is the goal of the present chapter.

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