Sexual and Gender Minority Health

Sexual and gender minorities include but are not limited to people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, transgender, Two-Spirit, queer, intersex and non-binary. Research on this area focuses on the physiological consequences of social stressors, sexual health, substance use, risk for communicable disease across the life course, and social and political determinants of health.

Related Faculty

Dr. Stacey Griner
Dr. Malinee Neelamegam
Dr. Teresa Wagner

Faculty Publications:

• Cassidy Faught III, Carol Howe, Amy Raines-Milenkov & Teresa Wagner. (2022). What About Mom? Teen: Usability of a Postpartum App for Teen Mothers, Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet, 26:3, 283-292. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15398285.2022.2109096
• Wagner, T., Thompson, E., Gadson, A., Stark, M., Bush, K. & Raines-Milenkov, A. Postpartum Education and Health Literacy: New Mom’s Perspectives. (2020). Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet. 24(4), 346-35. https://doi.org/10.1080/15398285.2020.1810964
• Wagner, T., Stark, M. & Raines-Milenkov, A. (2020). What About Mom? Health Literacy and Maternal Mortality. Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet, 24(1), 50-61. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15398285.2019.1710980
• Griner, S.B., Yockey, R.A., & Forschner, C.N. (2022). Oral healthcare visits among sexual minority adolescents ages 14-18, 2019, USA. Journal of Public Health Dentistry. doi.org/10.1111/jphd.12546
• Kline, N.S., Webb, N.J., Johnson, K.C., Brunner, H.C., Griner, S.B., & Brunell, D.J. (2023). Mapping transgender policies in the US 2017-2021: The role of geography and implications for health equity. Health and Place, 80. doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.102985
• Kline, N.S., Griner, S.B., Neelamegam, M., Webb, N.J., Morales, J.J., & Rhodes, S.D. (2022). Responding to “Don’t Say Gay” laws in the US: Research priorities and considerations for health equity. Sexuality Research and Social Policy. doi.org/10.1007/s13178-022-00773-0
• Griner, S.B., Spears, E.C., & Maskey, S. (2021). Advancing cultural competency toward sexual and gender minorities: Innovation in maternal and child health pedagogy. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 26(1), 42-48. org/10.1007/s10995-021-03309-x
• Griner, S.B., Kline, N., Monroy, E., & Thompson, E.L. (2021). Sexual consent communication among sexual and gender minority college students. Journal of Sex Research, 58(4), 462-468. org/10.1080/00224499.2021.1882929
• Griner, S.B., Vamos, C.A., Thompson, E.L., Logan, R., Vázquez-Otero, C., & Daley, E.M. (2017). The intersection of gender identity and violence: Victimization experienced by transgender college students. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. org/10.1177/0886260517723743
• Kline, N. (2020). Syndemic statuses: Intersectionality and mobilizing for LGBTQ+ Latinx health equity after the Pulse shooting. Social Science & Medicine. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113260
• Kline, N. S. (2020). Rethinking COVID-19 vulnerability: a call for LGBTQ+ Im/migrant health equity in the United States during and after a pandemic. Health Equity, 4(1), 239-242. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1089/heq.2020.0012
• Kline, N., & Cuevas, C. (2018). Resisting identity erasure after pulse: Intersectional LGBTQ+ Latinx Activism in Orlando, FL. Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures, 2(2), 68-71.
• Mantey DS, Yockey RA, Lee JGL. Sexual Minority Status and Marijuana Initiation during Adulthood: A Longitudinal Study Using Nationally Representative Data. Subst Use Misuse. 2021;56(7):1054-1061. doi: 10.1080/10826084.2021.1906704.
• Yockey RA. Past-Year Ketamine Use: Evidence from a United States Population, 2015-2019. J Psychoactive Drugs. 2022 Mar 29:1-7. doi: 10.1080/02791072.2022.2058896.
• Yockey, R. A., Yang, J., Lee, J. G., & Griner, S. (2022). Older sexual minority adults and driving under the influence, 2015–2019, USA. Safety Science, 147, 105588. Doi: 10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105588