This is the first concise handbook on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) health in the past few years. It breaks the myths, breaks the silence, and breaks new ground on this subject. This resource offers a multidimensional picture of LGBT health across clinical and social disciplines to give readers a full and nuanced understanding of these diverse populations. It contains real-world matters of definition and self-definition, meticulous analyses of stressor and health outcomes, a extensive coverage of research methodology concerns, and critical insights into the sociopolitical context of LGBT individuals health and lives.

Shifting sands or solid foundation? Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender identity information.- Development of same-sex attracted youth.- Developmental issues in lesbian and gay adulthood.- Biology and sexual minority status.- The importance of being perverse: Troubling law, identities, health and rights in search of global justice.- Ethical, legal, social and political implications of scientific research on sexual orientation.- Targeting the state: Risks, benefits, and strategic dilemmas of recent LGBT health advocacy.- Sexual stigma: Putting sexual minority health issues in context.- Globalization, structural violence, and LGBT health: A cross-cultural perspective.- Minority stress and mental health in LGB populations.- Historical, structural, interpersonal, and cultural determinants of health among gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and two-spirit American Indians and Alaska Natives.- "I don''t fit anywhere": How race and sexuality shape Latino gay and bisexual men''s health.- Black LGB health and well-being.- Defining and measuring sexual orientation for research.- Samplings in surveys of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people.- Researching gay men''s health: The promise of qualitative methodology.- From science fiction to computer-generated technology: Sampling lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals.- Using community-based participatory research to understand and eliminate social disparities in health for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender populations.- Transgender health concerns.- Health concerns of lesbian and bisexual women.- Cancer and sexual minority women.- HIV/AIDS prevention research among Black men who have sex with men: Current progress and future directions.- LGBT tobacco and alcohol disparities.- Methaphetamine use and its relation to HIV risk: Data from Latino gay men in San Francisco.- Improving access to health care among African-American, Asian & Pacific Islanders, and Latino lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations.- Public health and trans-people: Barriers to care and strategies to improve treatment.- HIV prevention and care for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youths: "best practices" from existing programs and policies.- Fenway Community Health''s model of integrated community-based LGBT care, education and research