Sympathetic Nervous Reactivity in Sexual Minority Health Disparities
Words: 2247 Pages: 7 5037Despite increasing levels of societal acceptance towards same-sex partnerships, sexual minority (SM) individuals (lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals) experience excessive personal and institutional discrimination across a variety of contexts. A 2017 national survey found that more than half of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) respondents reported that they or an LGBTQ friend or family member had been threatened or non-sexually harassed (57%), sexually harassed (51%), or experienced violence (51%) based on their gender identity or sexual orientation. A […]