LGBTQ+ and Mental Health:

LGBTQ+ and mental health: The LGBTQ+ community has mental health challenges due to unrelenting discrimination and unequal treatment of individuals, groups, and organizations in nearly all aspects of life, affecting financial, mental, and physical wellbeing. LGBTQ+ individuals may not fit the dominant culture’s expectations, causing a greater degree of stigma, trauma, and stress (minority stress). Society tends to assume heterosexuality and cisgender identities or, at the least, accepts notions of binary gender and sexual identity, denying a broader spectrum of experience beyond man or woman, gay or straight. Also see Sexual Identity, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression