For over two decades, the minority stress model has guided research on the health of
sexually-diverse individuals (those who are not exclusively heterosexual) and gender …

Sexual fluidity research (ie, change over time in one or more sexual orientation dimensions)
has grown exponentially, with advancements in conceptual models, measurement, and …

Across the lifespan, most sexual minority individuals experience the closet—a typically
prolonged period in which no significant others know their sexual identity. This paper …

Sexual orientation is a core aspect of human experience and understanding its development
is fundamental to psychology as a scientific discipline. Biological perspectives have played …

The first national study of body image was reported four decades ago in the article The
Happy American Body (Berscheid et al., 1973). To provide a modern follow-up to this study …

Defining sexual minority status longitudinally over critical developmental periods is essential
for understanding the roots of health disparities. Theory supports multidimensional …

In September of 2019, the largest-ever (N= 477,522) genome-wide-association study of
same-gender sexuality was published in Science. The primary finding was that multiple …

Continued research with sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth is essential both to
understand health disparities and to develop interventions targeting those disparities, but …

BackgroundSexual minority individuals consistently report higher rates of mental disorder
than heterosexuals. However, much of the research has methodological limitations related …

CONTEXT Many sexual minority women, regardless of sexual identity, engage in
heterosexual behavior across the life course, which provides them opportunities to …