Black LGBT Health in the United States

The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation

Contributions by Roberto L. Abreu, Siobhan Brooks, Dante' D. Bryant, Lawrence O. Bryant, Candice Crowell, Sannisha K. Dale, Lourdes Dolores Follins, Rahwa Haile, Angelique Harris Boston University School, Tfawa T. Haynes, Lashaune P. Johnson, Jonathan Mathias Lassiter, Jane A. McElroy, Della V. Mosley, Kasim Oritz, Mark B. Padilla, Edith A. Parker, Kenneth Maurice Pass, Tonia C. Poteat, Amorie Robinson, Devon Tyrone Wade, H. Sharif "Herukhuti" Williams Edited by Lourdes Dolores Follins, Jonathan Mathias Lassiter

Publication date:

13 December 2016

Length of book:

242 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

Dimensions:

237x159mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781498535762

Black LGBT Health in the United States: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation focuses on the mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of health, and considers both risk and resiliency factors for the Black LGBT population. Contributors to this collection intimately understand the associations between health and intersectional anti-Black racism, heterosexism, homonegativity, biphobia, transphobia, and social class. This collection fills a gap in current scholarship by providing information about an array of health issues like cancer, juvenile incarceration, and depression that affect all subpopulations of Black LGBT people, especially Black bisexual-identified women, Black bisexual-identified men, and Black transgender men. This book is recommended for readers interested in psychology, health, gender studies, race studies, social work, and sociology.

Preface
Introduction: For Us, By Us: A Manifesto of Black SGL and Trans Health
Jonathan Mathias Lassiter
Chapter 1 The Forgotten Intersection: Black LGBTQ/GNC Youth in Juvenile Detention in the United States
Amorie Robinson
Chapter 2 Black Bisexual Women’s Health in the United States: A Systematic Literature Review
Jonathan Mathias Lassiter
Chapter 3 Uses of the Interstitial as Power: Black, Bisexual Men Building Maroon Health
H. Sharif “Herukhuti” Williams
Chapter 4 Resistance as Resilience: How the Black Bisexual Community Keeps One Another Healthy
Della V. Mosley, Roberto L. Abreu, and Candice Crowell
Chapter 5 Narratives of Health among Black Trans Men: An Exploratory Intersectional Analysis
Tonia C Poteat and Lourdes Dolores Follins
Chapter 6 Balancing Act: Identity Management and Mental Health in Black LBT Women
Siobhan Brooks
Chapter 7 Rainbows or Ribbons? Queer Black Women Searching For a Place in the Cancer Sisterhood
LaShaune P. Johnson and Jane A. McElroy
Chapter 8 Status-Quo: Intersectionality Theory, Afro-Centric Paradigms, and Meeting the Healthcare Needs of Gay and Bisexual African American Men
Dante’ D. Bryant
Chapter 9 Identity, Sexual Identity Disclosure, and HIV Risk in Black Sexual Minority Men: A Conceptual Overview
Rahwa Haile, Mark B. Padilla, and Edith A. Parker
Chapter 10 Shades of Black: A Psychotherapy Group for Black Men Who Have Sex with Men
Tfawa T. Haynes and Sannisha K. Dale
Chapter 11 Effective Strategies Used by African American Same Gender Loving Men in Promoting Health and Wellbeing
Lawrence O. Bryant
Chapter 12 Perceptions of Health: Self-Rated Health among Black LGB People
Kasim Ortiz, Angelique Harris, Kenneth Maurice Pass, and Devon Tyrone Wade

Lourdes Dolores Follins and Jonathan Mathias Lassiter offer us a long overdue treatment of Black LGBT health in the United States, one that doesn’t shy away from our rich, varied, and intersectional tapestry by equally highlighting all constituents of the LGBT acronym. This offering honors all aspects of us through narratives, literature reviews, autoethnography, and both qualitative and quantitative methodologies that affirm our resilience as sexually and gender diverse descendants of the African diaspora. The words and recommendations provide us with considerations that highlight systems and affirmation, not just individual behaviors and pathology. The contributors to this collection paint a portrait of us, our communities, and our families as solutions instead of statistics. This book exalts our glorious resilience as Black LGBT and gender non-conforming peoples, and in doing so, provides us with a road map on how we can more effectively prioritize and celebrate our collective and individual health.