LibGuides: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) in Medicine: LGBTQ+ & Medicine

LGBTQ+ Topics in Medicine

Welcome to the LGBTQ+ portion of the DEIA guide. From here, users can explore what resources the library has available to support research on LGBTQ+ topics, review some specific health related issues pertaining to the community, and discover books from our DEI collection that speak to the important experiences of the LGBTQ community.

Recommended Resources and Learning Materials

Healthy People 2030: LGBT Data
Healthy People 2030 aims to collect population data that can track whether certain issues within the LGBT community are improving, worsening, or remaining the same over time.
Center of Excellence LGBTQ+ Behavioral Health Equity
This resource contains hundreds of webinars that provide practitioners with foundational and advanced knowledge on behavioral health needs within the LGBTQ+ community. (Account creation is required and free)
How does implicit bias by physicians affect patients' health care?
Monitor on Psychology March 2019, Vol 50, No. 3 page 22

Enhancing Clinical Skills in Caring for LGBTQ+ Clients in a Hospital Setting
See the above article for a comprehensive break down of LGBT terms, important issues related to health, and suggestions for creating a more inclusive care setting for this community.
Health Care Equality Index 2022: Medical Decision-Making
"In its 15th year, the Healthcare Equality Index (HEI) is the national LGBTQ+ benchmarking tool that evaluates healthcare facilities' policies and practices related to the equity and inclusion of their LGBTQ+ patients, visitors and employees. The HEI 2022 evaluates more than 2,200 healthcare facilities nationwide."-provided by publisher
Addressing Health Care Disparities Among Sexual Minorities
Obstet Gynecol Clin North Am. 2017 Mar;44(1):71-80. doi: 10.1016/j.ogc.2016.11.003.
Access to health services by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons: systematic literature review
BMC Int Health Hum Rights. 2016 Jan 14:16:2. doi: 10.1186/s12914-015-0072-9.

Supporting sexual and gender minority health-care workers
Nature Reviews Nephrology volume 18, pages339–340 (2022)

2022 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health
"The Trevor Project’s 2022 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health demonstrates that rates of suicidal thoughts have trended upward among LGBTQ young people over the last three years, making our life-saving work all the more important."-provided by publisher
Emerging trends in eating disorders among sexual and gender minorities
Curr Opin Psychiatry. 2020 Nov;33(6):562-567. doi: 10.1097/YCO.0000000000000645.
Unpacking body image concerns and disordered eating for transgender women: The roles of sexual objectification and minority stress
J Couns Psychol. 2019 Mar;66(2):131-142. doi: 10.1037/cou0000333. Epub 2019 Jan 31.

Library Resources

The library subscribes to many journals related to LGBTQ+ topics. Visit a few of them below as a jumping off point for further research.

Culture, health & sexuality (Online)
"Culture, Health & Sexuality publishes international, cutting-edge research together with scholarly reviews of contemporary issues and concerns." -provided by publisher
International Journal of Transgender Health
"International Journal of Transgender Health, together with its partner organization the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), offers an international, multidisciplinary scholarly forum for publication in the field of transgender health in its broadest sense for academics, practitioners, policy makers, and the general population." -provided by publisher
Journal of gender studies (Online)
"The Journal of Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary journal which publishes articles relating to gender and sex from a feminist perspective covering a wide range of subject areas including the Social, Natural and Health Sciences, the Arts, Humanities, Literature and Popular Culture." -provided by publisher
Journal of the history of sexuality (Online)
"Journal of the History of Sexuality (JHS) illuminates the history of sexuality in all its expressions, recognizing various differences of class, culture, gender, race, and sexual orientation. Spanning geographic and temporal boundaries, JHS provides a much-needed forum for historical, critical, and theoretical research in this field. Its cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary character brings together original articles and critical reviews from historians, social scientists, and humanities scholars worldwide." -provided by publisher
Studies in gender and sexuality (Online)
"Studies in Gender and Sexuality is one of the leading journals in the transdisciplinary field of gender and sexuality studies. Situated at the interface of psychoanalysis and social/cultural theory, it aims to further our understanding of how we live, theorize and transform genders and sexualities." -provided by publisher

Featured Titles at the Library

Check out a few of the library's books on LGBTQ+ topics within our DEI collection.

See the library's full DEI collection here

Pride by Matthew Todd
Call Number: HQ 76.8.U6 T635p 2020
"Pride documents the milestones in the fight for LGBTQ equality, from the victories of early activists to the passing of legislation barring discrimination, and the gradual acceptance of the LGBTQ community in politics, sports, culture, and the media."--Page 4 of cover.
Queer and Trans Voices by Julia Feliz Brueck (Editor); Zoie McNeill (Editor)
Call Number: LD 4349.A86 B889q 2020
"With a focus on building bridges between movements and dismantling hierarchies between oppressed groups through consistent anti-oppression, Queer and Trans Voices: Achieving Liberation Through Consistent Anti-Oppression follows the concise and to-the-point style of resource activist and author Julia Feliz Brueck."--Amazon.com
All the Things We Don't Talk About by Amy Feltman
Call Number: WS 462.5P3 F325a 2022
Morgan Flowers just wants to hide. Raised by their neurodivergent father, Morgan has grown up haunted by the absence of their mysterious mother Zoe, especially now, as they navigate their gender identity and the turmoil of first love. Their father Julian has raised Morgan with care, but he can’t quite fill the gap left by the dazzling and destructive Zoe, who fled to Europe on Morgan’s first birthday. And when Zoe is dumped by her girlfriend Brigid, she suddenly comes crashing back into Morgan and Julian’s lives, poised to disrupt the fragile peace they have so carefully cultivated. A story of betrayal, addiction, and angst alongside queer love, joy, and acceptance, ALL THE THINGS WE DON'T TALK ABOUT is as a celebration of and a reckoning with the power and unintentional pain of a modern family"-- Provided by publisher.
Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon
Call Number: HQ 18.552 V128b 2020
"Pocket Change Collective is a series of small books with big ideas from today’s leading activists and artists. In this installment, Beyond the Gender Binary, Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the world to see gender not in black and white, but in full color. Taking from their own experiences as a gender-nonconforming artist, they show us that gender is a malleable and creative form of expression. The only limit is your imagination."-- Provided by publisher.