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discrimination, and harassment have persisted. The 2013 GLSEN survey (Kosciw, Greytak, Palmer, & Boesen, 2014) of 7,898 LGBT students between ages

discrimination, victimization, and violence across the life span from childhood to old age (Hollenbach

discrimination-related trauma on health (Fields et al., 2013). Other research conducted with a sample of predominantly racial/ethnic minority young MSM (YMSM) aged

discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, and disability, and the rule

age-matched heterosexual men (McCabe et al., 2009; Yarns et al., 2016). Data for urban MSM also showed frequent engagement in multiple drug use (Stall et al., 2001). There was a greater risk for MSM being involved in illicit drug use and having related problems (Green & Feinstein

discrimination (e.g., Rivera, Forquer, & Rangel, 2010; Sue et al., 2008; Sue, Bucceri, Lin, Nadal, & Torino, 2010), without inquiring directly about how participants’ genders, sexual orientations, ages

age among populations that have downstream effects on both healthcare need and utilization. Meanwhile, the “residual direct effect”—a mathematical socioeconomic disparity measure—focuses on race and ethnicity coefficients in a multivariate regression model after adjusting for all other factors available to the investigator, including socioeconomic status

age, and LGBT people, 33–35 Older sexual minorities: mental health disparities for, 182–83; physical health disparities for, 185–86; and substance use, 154–55 Opioid analgesics, and sexual minority, 161–62 Orange Is the New Black, 48 Overt discrimination

Discrimination and mental health among lesbian, gay and bisexual adults in the United States. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 84(1), 35–45. Bränström, R., Hatzenbuehler, M. L., Pachankis, J. E., & Link, B. G. (2016). Sexual orientation disparities in preventable disease: A fundamental cause perspective. American Journal

age, my experience as an impoverished Mexican American served as an inspiration to help my community heal. My early trajectory was not pointed toward college. The school system I attended was underfunded, which meant that the scant resources available were allocated to students considered