Guido Giovanardi, PhD, Alexandro Fortunato, PhD, Bianca Di Giannantonio, MSA, Filippo Nimbi, PhD, Nicola Carone, PhD, Vittorio Lingiardi, MD
{"title":"Closing circles: Family-of-origin reconciliations following the transition to parenthood in lesbian and gay parents through assisted reproduction","authors":"Guido Giovanardi, PhD, Alexandro Fortunato, PhD, Bianca Di Giannantonio, MSA, Filippo Nimbi, PhD, Nicola Carone, PhD, Vittorio Lingiardi, MD","doi":"10.1080/19359705.2024.2310234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19359705.2024.2310234","url":null,"abstract":"Research on lesbian and gay parent families has mostly focused on parenting quality and child development, yet little attention has been given to the transformations in families of origin’s dynamic...","PeriodicalId":46675,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health","volume":"308 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139766931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of the updated Transgender Awareness Webinar","authors":"Lauren Mizock, PhD, Jessica Salmonsen, MA, MS, Ruben Hopwood, MDiv, PhD, LP, Gregory Dilts, MA, Allen Cornelius, PhD","doi":"10.1080/19359705.2024.2304168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19359705.2024.2304168","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: The Transgender Awareness Webinar was designed to educate the general public about transgender individuals and reduce stigmatizing attitudes toward transgender and gender diverse peop...","PeriodicalId":46675,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139766936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zheng Hui Mah, Daniel Le, Avin Tan, Adrian Tyler, Calvin Tan, Chronos Kwok, Sumita Banerjee,, Daniel Weng Siong Ho,, Mee Lian Wong, Rayner Kay Jin Tan
{"title":"Body image dissatisfaction and its association with homophobia, outness, depression severity, and suicide among young gay, bisexual, queer, and transgender men in Singapore: A cross-sectional study","authors":"Zheng Hui Mah, Daniel Le, Avin Tan, Adrian Tyler, Calvin Tan, Chronos Kwok, Sumita Banerjee,, Daniel Weng Siong Ho,, Mee Lian Wong, Rayner Kay Jin Tan","doi":"10.1080/19359705.2023.2298511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19359705.2023.2298511","url":null,"abstract":"The criminalization of sexual relations between men has stifled the development of social spaces and placed emphasis on sexual capital for gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (GBTQ) men in Singap...","PeriodicalId":46675,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health","volume":"251 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139509044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Passing the torch","authors":"Christopher A. McIntosh","doi":"10.1080/19359705.2023.2286789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19359705.2023.2286789","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health (Vol. 28, No. 1, 2024)","PeriodicalId":46675,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139517073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elisabeth Counselman Carpenter, Kevin Lally, Alex Redcay, Wade Luquet
{"title":"The impact of fluid attraction and fluid identity on stress, anxiety, and depression","authors":"Elisabeth Counselman Carpenter, Kevin Lally, Alex Redcay, Wade Luquet","doi":"10.1080/19359705.2023.2265314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19359705.2023.2265314","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractIntroduction This study sought to determine whether gender, fluid identity, and fluid attraction groups differed significantly in stress, depression, and anxiety among LGBTQA + sexual minorities compared to non–sexual minorities.Methods Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), this study conducted two-way analyses of variance to determine whether male or female sexual minorities had significantly different levels of stress, depression, and anxiety when compared to non–sexual minorities. Individuals were also placed in one of eight groups based on sexual orientation, fluid identity, and fluid attraction to determine whether fluidity played a unique role in contributing to mental health.Results Results showed that both gender and fluidity accounted for 3.7% to 9.7% of the variance in stress (R2 = 4.1%), depression (R2 = 3.7%), and anxiety (R2 = 9.7%). Non–sexual minorities who reported both fluid attraction and fluid identity also reported the highest rate of stress, anxiety, and depression, revealing that fluidity had a unique impact on mental health apart from sexual orientation. This consistent pattern did not occur among sexual minorities. Sexual minorities had varying degrees of stress, depression, and anxiety, depending on the combination of static or fluid attraction or identity.Conclusion Fluid attraction, fluid identity, and gender significantly impacted stress, depression, and anxiety regardless of sexual orientation.Keywords: LGBTQfluid identitystressanxietydepression Ethics statementRutgers University Institutional Review Board (IRB) and Bloomsburg University IRB granted exempt IRB reviews for this study.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Data availability statementThe data supporting these results were derived from the following resources in the public domain: https://addhealth.cpc.unc.edu/data/#public-use.Additional informationFundingThe author(s) reported there is no funding associated with the work featured in this article.","PeriodicalId":46675,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health","volume":"125 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135679948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LGBTQ+ cultural competency of Irish mental health professional students","authors":"Dearbhla Moroney, Sarah Jay","doi":"10.1080/19359705.2023.2262944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19359705.2023.2262944","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction The LGBTQ+ community is often discriminated against and stigmatized resulting in greater psychological and emotional stress compared to heterosexual and cisgender people. Consequently, poorer mental health is often observed in this community. To alleviate these disparities, mental health professionals need to be culturally competent. Therefore, LGBTQ+ cultural competency was explored in a sample of Irish mental health professional students.","PeriodicalId":46675,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136033595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reciprocal associations between sexual orientation concealment and mental health among LGBQ college students","authors":"Colleen A. Kase, Jonathan J. Mohr","doi":"10.1080/19359705.2023.2258819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19359705.2023.2258819","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractIntroduction Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) individuals confront ongoing decisions about whether to reveal their sexual orientation to others. In some situations, LGBQ individuals opt for a strategy of concealment (i.e., an active effort to hide one’s sexual minority identity). A robust body of research has linked concealment to mental health challenges. However, most previous studies have been cross-sectional, limiting their ability to draw conclusions about the directionality of these associations.Method The present study used data collected at two times points four months apart to examine the reciprocal association of concealment with depressive symptoms and life satisfaction in a sample of 91 LGBQ college students. Data were analyzed using cross-lagged panel models.Results Results revealed that depressive symptoms and life satisfaction predicted concealment four months later. Concealment predicted lower levels of later life satisfaction—but not depressive symptoms—four months later. Experiences of heterosexist discrimination did not confound the associations between concealment and mental health.Conclusion Findings highlight the value of longitudinal study designs for research on LGBQ identity and have implications for the theory of identity management. In particular, general mental health variables may have a greater impact on the LGBQ identity management process than previously thought.Keywords: Sexual minorityidentity managementconcealmentmental healthLGBQ Ethics statementThis study was approved by the Human Subjects Research Board at George Mason University (Protocol #4728).Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Data availability statementThe data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, Colleen A. Kase, upon reasonable request.Additional informationFundingThe author(s) reported there is no funding associated with the work featured in this article.","PeriodicalId":46675,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135590407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experiences with sexual orientation microaggression in mental health services in Israel","authors":"Hadas Breski, Maya Lavie-Ajayi","doi":"10.1080/19359705.2023.2258822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19359705.2023.2258822","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractIntroduction Little is known about the experiences of LGBTQ+ identifying professionals working in mental health services.Method This study analyzed 14 in-depth interviews conducted with LGB identifying professionals working in mental health services in Israel.Results Analysis of the interviews identified six unique forms of sexual orientation microaggressions: (1) Pathologizing LGBTQ+ identities; (2) Messages of concealment; (3) Lack of recognition; (4) Organizational positioning as experts of “gayness”; (5) Heteronormative compliments; and (6) Invasiveness.Conclusion We argue that actions should be taken by mental health services to reduce the unique sexual orientation microaggressions identified in this study.Keywords: Microaggressionmental health servicesself-disclosure Ethics statementThis study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Department of Social Work at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev.Disclosure statementThe authors declare that they have no competing interests.Data availability statementDue to the nature of this research, participants of this study did not agree for their data to be shared publicly, so supporting data is not available.Table 1. Details of research participants.Download CSVDisplay TableAdditional informationFundingThe author(s) reported there is no funding associated with the work featured in this article.","PeriodicalId":46675,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135828880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Change is in the air","authors":"Christopher A. Mcintosh","doi":"10.1080/19359705.2023.2253661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19359705.2023.2253661","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46675,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135830035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An interview with Gerald Perlman, PhD","authors":"Jack Drescher","doi":"10.1080/19359705.2023.2260659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19359705.2023.2260659","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Another literary interaction Jack and I had involved an article I wrote in 2002 entitled Strange Bedfellows which was a review of his book Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man.2 Editor’s Note: See Sbordone (Citation2003).3 Editors Note: See Merlino (Citation2001).4 Editor’s Note: See Blechner (Citation2005).5 Editor’s Note: See Bayer (Citation1987).6 Editor’s Note: See Rosario (Citation2003).7 Editor’s Note: See Silverstein (Citation1991).","PeriodicalId":46675,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135420756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}