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Given systemic marginalization, LGBTQIA+ populations face persistent health inequities. While religiosity and spirituality (RS)-factors commonly studied in relation to health-are often associated with improved mental health in general populations, their impact among LGBTQIA+ individuals is less clear. This preregistered systematic review synthesizes findings across 55 quantitative studies (N = 512,551) to examine associations between RS and psychological wellbeing among LGBTQIA+ adults. Guided by the Religious/Spiritual Stress and Resilience (RSSR) model-which conceptualizes RS as both a potential stressor and source of resilience-findings reveal RS to be a highly ambivalent force. RS is associated with distress when linked to internalized homo/bi/transphobia, identity conflict, and exclusion, but also with resilience through meaning-making, spiritual coping, and affirming communities. Spirituality is more consistently associated with positive outcomes, and internalized homo/bi/transphobia emerges as a key mediator of psychological distress. This review refines the RSSR model by centering internalized homo/bi/transphobia and ambivalence as core analytic constructs. Findings also have critical implications for clinical care, spiritual support, and theory development, underscoring the need for LGBTQIA+-affirming practices that address both the harms and healing potentials of RS in their lives.

Sexual minority women (SMW) may be at increased risk for certain types of disordered eating compared to their heterosexual peers. Negative emotional reactivity is associated with disordered eating in general samples of adults, and negative emotional reactivity to minority stress (NERMS) is associated with poorer psychological outcomes among racially/ethnically minoritized groups. However, NERMS has rarely been studied among sexual minority individuals. The purpose of the current study was to examine individual differences in NERMS as a predictor of disordered eating among SMW. One hundred and thirty-two adult cisgender SMW completed measures of disordered eating (i.e. cognitive restraint, uncontrolled eating, and emotional eating), an adapted measure of heterosexist discrimination experienced over the past 12 months, and a measure of NERMS (operationalized as the elevation in each participant's negative affect after watching a video-based minority stress induction). Results revealed that NERMS directly and positively predicted uncontrolled eating and emotional eating, but not cognitive restraint, over and above the effect of heterosexist discrimination. NERMS did not moderate the association between heterosexist discrimination and any of the disordered eating outcomes. NERMS mediated the association between discrimination and emotional eating. Researchers should continue to examine NERMS as a predictor of psychopathology among sexual minority individuals.

This study utilizes gendered social script theory to explore how same-sex love (SSL) women and men navigate cultural expectations, familial dynamics, and emotional processes after coming out. While prior research has addressed gendered heteronormative scripts, mainly in Western individualist cultures, less is known about their internalization and renegotiation within collectivist, family-centered contexts. We apply a tripartite framework, cultural, interpersonal, and intrapsychic scripts, to guide a directed content analysis of 49 in-depth interviews with Surinamese Hindustani SSL individuals living in the Netherlands and Suriname within a diasporic and collectivist context. Cultural scripts surrounding marriage, motherhood, fatherhood, palvár ke íjjat (family honor), and manai ka bole (what will people say?) shaped early socialization. After coming out, familial surveillance often decreased for SSL women, yet they faced internal struggles involving shame, guilt, and loyalty. SSL men, by contrast, continued to face strong interpersonal control, reinforcing intrapsychic tensions around masculinity and filial duty. Findings reveal gendered patterns in emotional processing: SSL women internalized responsibility for maintaining harmony, whereas SSL men viewed their same-sex love as a source of familial shame. Gendered scripts thus shape emotional navigation within collectivist family systems.

This paper presents an analysis of the creative possibilities offered to teachers when they openly discuss sexual and gender identity issues in their classrooms. The research is conducted through autoethnography, a branch of ethnography that uses personal narratives to create life stories, providing clear emotional and experiential involvement on behalf of the researcher. The methodology is a hybrid and qualitative approach, considering autoethnography as an initial premise and also incorporating Arts-Based Research. The study explores what possibilities arts training offers future primary school teachers, adopting an inclusive stance and addressing issues of sexual and gender diversity to understand and disseminate non-normative identities. The concept of visual dissidence is introduced through the overcoming of prejudices and taboos, taking into account the social, cultural, and political progress fostered by the struggle for LGBT rights. The analysis includes the work of international artists featured in the online museum Museari, showcasing pieces that explore dissident themes. The exhibition reviews some of the artist's works throughout his career and includes examples from other Museari artists. The artist's educational work is carefully considered, as he uses innovative themes such as the body, fear, death, violence, and the disobedient use of digital devices.

This article first offers a psychoanalytic reading of homosexuality as formalized in Sigmund Freud's Three Essays and in Jacques Lacan's rereading of Freud in his first Seminar. In contradistinction to a more commonplace and more limited and limiting reading of homosexuality as an identity category understood primarily (if not exclusively) in identitarian and communitarian terms, Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, as this article illustrates, conceptualizes homosexuality in mental (or psychic) terms. More specifically, instead of bespeaking the homogenizing and universalizing language of the group (i.e. "the homosexuals"), the more productive, and crucially ethical, rhetoric of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis bespeaks the particular and even singular speech of every homosexual subject. Freud's and Lacan's psychoanalytically oriented thinking on homosexuality will be distinguished from two early representative examples, namely, from Michel Foucault's parochial historicist perspective and from Guy Hocquenghem's theorization on homosexual desire. Further, we will present and elaborate a psychoanalytic perspective on homosexuality vis-à-vis perversity-albeit not as an aberration from a social norm or moral conduct, but according to its underlying unconscious mechanism of disavowal. Lastly, this article articulates and advances an ethics of homosexuality and, more inclusively, queerness by reading several representative examples of contemporary queer and psychoanalytic theory.

Research shows online homophobia is a significant concern for LGBTQ+ adolescents and youth globally, with bystanders being recognized as important in bullying situations. However, there is a lack of literature on the role of bystanders in preventing online homophobic bullying, especially among adolescents and youth. The current scoping review aims to review existing peer-reviewed articles and gray literature from January 2000 to June 2025 that focus on the role of bystanders and their responses in online homophobic bullying among adolescents and youth (aged 11 to 25 years). Nine Electronic databases were searched (i.e. Scopus, PubMed, Web of Science, PsycARTICLES, Academic Search Complete, ERIC, MEDLINE, & PsycINFO) to identify relevant articles. The findings from the review demonstrate that adolescents who witness online homophobic bullying often perceive these actions as potentially normal peer behavior. The findings stress the importance of developing new intervention strategies, revising outdated homophobic bullying measurement scales, and encouraging more qualitative, mixed-method, and intersectional studies on this topic. The review highlights the need for structured programs that promote constructive bystander responses dedicated to dealing with online homophobic bullying.

Digital, self-guided mental health programs have been shown to improve the mental health of LGBTQA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, asexual, plus other gender, sexual, and romantic minority identities) people. Extant literature demonstrates that tailoring these programs to LGBTQA+ experiences is important, but how to meaningfully achieve this given the heterogeneity of identities within LGBTQA+ communities is a challenge. This research aimed to understand LGBTQA+ individuals' perceptions toward digital, self-guided mental health programs, including their thoughts on tailoring. Semi-structured interviews were completed with 24 Australian LGBTQA+ individuals recruited from a larger randomized control trial evaluating a digital, self-guided mental health program. Participants were aged between 17 and 53 years and predominantly from metropolitan areas in Australia. Data were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis and yielded three themes. Theme 1 identified that there is no "perfect" way to design a digital, self-guided mental health program. Theme 2 described the impacts of meaningful verses non-meaningful tailoring to LGBTQA+ challenges and experiences, and that the individual need for an LGBTQA+ tailored program fluctuates. Theme 3 identified that participants felt this care modality was safe, but adequate risk-management procedures are necessary. These findings re-affirm the importance of co-creation with communities to guide meaningful program design.

In our review, we assess the intersection of LGBTQ+ identities with fashion, style, and dress, providing a comprehensive overview of current peer-reviewed research on the topic. Drawing from a scoping review approach, we analyzed studies published between 2000 and 2024 that address the relationship between LGBTQ+ identities and fashion-related practices. The research identifies key themes and trends, highlighting the evolving academic landscape of LGBTQ+ fashion studies. By examining studies from a range of academic databases, we categorize the literature by theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and geographic contexts. Overall, most articles focused on negotiating identity via clothing of a variety of identities within the LGBTQ+ communities, used qualitative methods, drew upon diverse theories, and focused on the United States context. Continued engagement with the wide array of identities already studied-and those yet to emerge-will enrich our understanding of how fashion operates as a dynamic site of identity construction, community formation, and cultural critique within LGBTQ+ lives.

Sexual minorities face multiple distinct stressors, including internalized stigma, felt stigma, and everyday discrimination. Prior research shows that these stressors are critical to their decisions to disclose their sexual orientation. However, many prior studies examined each stressor independently. It remains unclear how each minority stressor uniquely contributes to disclosure, and how they may relate to one another. This study addresses these gaps by analyzing a national probability dataset of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people in the United States (N = 944) that measured outness (i.e. how out you are) and disclosure behavior (i.e. told someone you're LGB). Using multilevel path analysis, we tested a linear model and three distinct mediation models that describe the process of how minority stressors affect outness and disclosure behavior. Results revealed that when all minority stressors are considered simultaneously, disclosure behavior is best predicted by everyday discrimination, whereas outness is best predicted by internalized stigma. In addition, the best-fitting model suggests that on average, everyday discrimination predicts internalized stigma and felt stigma, which in turn predict less outness, but more disclosure behavior. We also explored the results by three age cohorts. Together, this work deepens a theoretical understanding of how minority stress shapes disclosure.

The Harry Potter media franchise has recently come under fire because of author J. K. Rowling's transphobic commentary. LGBTQ+ fans have been particularly affected by Rowling's bigotry. To reconcile the dissonance surrounding a once beloved childhood text and the author's transphobic statements, LGBTQ+ fans likely engage in subversive fan behaviors (i.e. queer readings) to reclaim the wizarding world as their own. In the present study, we wanted to understand how subversive fan behaviors are related to identity cohesion and self-acceptance among LGBTQ+ Harry Potter/Marauders fans (i.e. fans of the Harry Potter media franchise and other extra-textual fandoms within). Based on the findings from a cross-sectional sample (N = 361) of fans, queer readings were negatively associated with both self-concept clarity and unconditional self-acceptance. Contact with other fans in the Harry Potter/Marauders community did not moderate either of the proposed relationships and was negatively correlated with self-concept clarity. Broadly, our results suggest that queer readings among LGBTQ+ Harry Potter/Marauders fans are associated with negative identity-related outcomes.