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How Is Tobacco Used in the LGBT Community?June 8, 2022
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According to recent research, approximately 3.8 percent of the US population is openly LGBT. While more societies publicly accept LGBT people, they continue to confront numerous challenges.
The high smoking rate is one of the difficulties they face. According to studies, LGBT people smoke at considerably greater rates than straight adults. They are roughly twice as likely to engage in tobacco-related activities such as vaping.
To delve deeper into the topic, we will discuss why and how tobacco businesses abuse the LGBT community and other difficulties that…
Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity
Answers to Your Questions About Same-Sex Marriage
Legal recognition of a committed relationship through marriage provides economic, social, and health benefits to gay and lesbian couples. This legal recognition can also benefit gay and lesbian family members, friends of the couple, children who gay or lesbian parents might adopt in the future, and society at large.
Are heterosexual and same-sex marriages different?
Many lesbians, gays, and bisexuals desire lifelong partnerships. They form committed relationships, and many have been together ten or more years—an amount of time that is …
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
April 15, 2022
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Just the Facts about Sexual Orientation and Youth
Sexual Orientation: How is it Developed?
Sexual orientation refers to an individual’s emotional and sexual attraction to other individuals. While this attraction may extend along a continuum, it is most frequently discussed as falling into three categories: heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bisexuality. Like many human behaviors, sexual orientation is influenced by various biological and psychosocial factors, such as evolutionary predispositions and early experiences, but it is generally not determined by any one factor. The timing of its emergence in everyone varies.
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Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
March 22, 2022
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Sexual Orientation and Homosexuality
The American Psychological Association recommends that psychologists help reduce the stigma of mental illness through the education of others about how long-held beliefs and fears about sexual orientation have led to prejudice and discrimination against lesbian, gay and bisexual people.
What is sexual orientation?
Sexual orientation is the personal sense of identity and attraction that a person feels toward the same and/or opposite sex members. Recent studies have shown sexual orientation to be fluid (not fixed), with the strength of attractions …
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
March 6, 2022
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Transgender People, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression
What is transgender?
Transgender is an umbrella term for people whose gender identity, expression, or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth. The American Psychological Association’s Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity are undertaking a systematic review of its use along with other terms related to transgender. In this document, “transgender” is used to replace the outdated term “transsexual.”
The terms “transgender” and “trans…
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
February 24, 2022
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