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Report
Does an Improved Social Environment for Sexual and Gender Minorities Have Implications for a New Minority Stress Research Agenda?
May 2016
This article calls for social scientists to adapt their research agenda to explore changes in stigma and prejudice toward sexual and gender minorities. It was published in Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity in May 2016.
Highlights
Studies suggest sexual and gender minorities no longer identify primarily as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.
Researchers need to document how are the lives of LGBT people are changing with the shifting social environment
Studies need to assess stress exposure, disease outcomes, and whether stress is the mediating factor between LGBT status and health outcomes.