poorer health outcomes in part because of stigma, discrimination, victimization, and resulting
trauma and stress. Stigma-related stress can lead to hypervigilance, or a chronic and
pervasive state of alertness and readiness to respond to potential threats in the environment.
The current study is one of the first to explore LGBTQ-identified individuals' lived
experiences of hypervigilance. In a brief online format, participants (N= 245) completed …