Current Issues in Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Health or Iron Maidens

Current Issues in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health

Author: Jay Harcourt

Learn what resources are needed for lesser-recognized LGBT health issues
Most literature that explores LGBT health issues concentrates on HIV/AIDS while leaving research studies on other vital issues lacking. Current Issues in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health addresses this inadequacy by presenting a broad range of LGBT health issues from an interdisciplinary and mixed-method perspective. Leading experts present both quantitative and qualitative descriptions of health issues among various population groups, focusing on those topics poorly represented in present-day literature. This book is a strong start to fill in the blanks about unrealized health issues of LGBT individuals and offers insights into the resources needed to address them.
Methods to assess sexual orientation and gender identity are not normally found in most population-based research. Because of the diversity within the relatively small LGBT population, research has been forced to generalize, making it less likely to effectively contribute to quality health issue data for these individuals. The research presented in Current Issues in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health takes particular care to specify how the orientation and sexual identity of study participants was measured. This book carefully mines previously unrevealed health disparities among LGBT populations across a broad spectrum of diseases— beyond the standard focus on HIV/AIDS. The most current and important studies are presented, including rare research on transgender health issues. The chapters are extensively referenced, and several include figures and tables to clarify and enhance understanding of theinformation.
The wide range of topics in Current Issues in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health include:
the inclusion of sexual orientation questions in research studies
comparison of mental health issues between women of different sexual orientations
mental health issues among men of different sexual orientations and HIV status in Australia
the impact of sexual identity distress and social support in GLBT youth issues
transgender youth health issues
female-to-male (FTM) transexuals' experiences accessing health care
research on LBT domestic violence survivors
health needs of male-to-female (MTF) transgenders of color
Current Issues in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health is crucial, thought-provoking reading for researchers working in LGBT health, public health professionals working in community health and LGBT health, policymakers, advocates, public health and community health faculty, and students interested in LGBT health issues.

"A FINE ADDITION to our knowledge of LGBT youth and adults. The chapter by Dr. Case and her colleagues gives us a wonderful study that supports the addition of sexual orientation to the demographic questions within research studies. Dr. Koh and Dr. Ross's work exploring mental health issues by sexual orientation is also very important." — Suzanne L. Dibble, RN, DNSc, Professor and Co-Director, Lesbian Health Research Center, University of California at San Francisco

"IMPORTANT . . . . Researchers, health care providers, program administrators, and policymakers will all find valuable information in this book, which should be part of everyone's library." — Randall Sell, ScD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

Current Issues in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Health: Introduction (Jay Harcourt)

Disclosure of Sexual Orientation and Behavior in the Nurses' Health Study II: Results from a Pilot Study (Patricia Case, S. Bryn Austin, David J. Hunter, Walter C. Willett, Susan Malspeis, JoAnn E. Manson, and Donna Spiegelman)

Mental Health Issues: A Comparison of Lesbian, Bisexual and Heterosexual Women (Audrey S. Koh and Leslie K. Ross)

Factors Associated with 'Feeling Suicidal': The Role of Sexual Identity (Jeanne Abelson, Sasho Lambevski, June Crawford, Michael Bartos, and Susan Kippax)

Sexual Identity Distress, Social Support, and the Health of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth (Eric R. Wright and Brea L. Perry)

Transgender Youth: Invisible and Vulnerable (Arnold H. Grossman and Anthony R. D'Augelli)

Slivers of the Journey: The Use of Photovoice and Storytelling to Examine Female to Male Transsexuals' Experience of Health Care Access (Wendy Hussey)

Understanding the Experiences of Lesbian, Bisexual, and Trans Survivors of Domestic Violence: A Qualitative Study (Danica R. Bornstein, Jake Fawcett, Marianne Sullivan, Kirsten D. Senturia, and Sharyne Shiu-Thornton)

Need for HIV/AIDS Education and Intervention for MTF Transgenders: Responding to the Challenge (Tooru Nemoto, Lydia A. Sausa, Don Operario, and JoAnne Keatley)

Contributors

Index

Reference Notes Included

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Iron Maidens: The Celebration of the Most Awesome Female Muscle in the World

Author: Kristin Kay

Kristin Kaye believed fate had delivered her to Broadway when, at age twenty-three and fresh from drama school, she was hired as the playwright and director of a one-night only extravaganza at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City. The show she'd been hired for? The Celebration of the Most Awesome Female Muscle in the World, a stage production featuring twenty-five of the world's most muscular women.

With the theories she'd learned in her Women's Studies classes still fresh in her mind, Kristin thought this was her chance to enter a whole new feminist arena, but in reality she was about to enter another world entirely. Her carefully orchestrated artistic interludes would be sandwiched between skits involving white lace thongs, smoke machines, and a bodybuilder spinning by her neck. Kristin tells the whole story in this hilarious book, alternating between an account of directing the show, which builds to the disastrous climax of opening night, and reportage on women's bodybuilding and the little-known sub-culture around it, including the use of steroids, the side business of strong women who wrestle men for money, and the judging controversy that threatens to split the sport in two.