Black LGBT Health in the United States: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation - Paperback

by Roberto L. Abreu (Contribution by), Siobhan Brooks (Contribution by), Dante' D. Bryant (Contribution by)

Black LGBT Health in the United States: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation focuses on the mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of health, and considers both risk and resiliency factors for the Black LGBT population. Contributors to this collection intimately understand the associations between health and intersectional anti-Black racism, heterosexism, homonegativity, biphobia, transphobia, and social class. This collection fills a gap in current scholarship by providing information about an array of health issues like cancer, juvenile incarceration, and depression that affect all subpopulations of Black LGBT people, especially Black bisexual-identified women, Black bisexual-identified men, and Black transgender men. This book is recommended for readers interested in psychology, health, gender studies, race studies, social work, and sociology.

Author Biography

Lourdes Dolores Follins is associate professor at the City University of New York.

Jonathan Mathias Lassiter is assistant professor of psychology at Muhlenberg College.