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  1. Introduction
  2. Understanding LGBTI Mental Health
  3. What is minority stress?
  4. Intersectionality
  5. Inequality = Seeking support from the community
  6. Reducing stigma and discrimination
  7. Supporting Someone with Their Mental Health
  8. Recovery-based approaches to supporting each other
  9. The art of listening
  10. From the community, for community leaders and those who wish to support others…
  11. Looking After Others by Looking After Yourself
  12. The effects of supporting people: burnout and compassion fatigue
  13. The importance of boundaries
  14. Self-Care
  15. Trauma Informed Approaches and Suicide Prevention
  16. Trauma-inform your thinking
  17. Suicide prevention
  18. Mental Health Resources
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  1. Introduction
  2. Understanding LGBTI Mental Health
  3. What is minority stress?
  4. Intersectionality
  5. Inequality = Seeking support from the community
  6. Reducing stigma and discrimination
  7. Supporting Someone with Their Mental Health
  8. Recovery-based approaches to supporting each other
  9. The art of listening
  10. From the community, for community leaders and those who wish to support others…
  11. Looking After Others by Looking After Yourself
  12. The effects of supporting people: burnout and compassion fatigue
  13. The importance of boundaries
  14. Self-Care
  15. Trauma Informed Approaches and Suicide Prevention
  16. Trauma-inform your thinking
  17. Suicide prevention
  18. Mental Health Resources

Supporting People

Intersectionality

The LGBTI community is not a homogenous group. We are diverse and have varying intersectional characteristics.

Intersectionality is a term used to explain how the specific experiences of people who face multiple marginalisation differ from those experiencing just one. For example, a gay, Black, disabled woman will face homophobia, ableism, racism, and sexism. These different types of discrimination overlap and reinforce each other. As a result, her experiences will be different to someone with only one of these marginalised identities.[15]

People can suffer minority stress due to multiple aspects of who they are. This means that those facing more than one type of discrimination are often more excluded from social and community spaces.

[Image of interconnected characteristics: (Dis)Ability, Sexual Orientation, Culture, Gender, Ethnicity, Age, Education, Income, Geography, Sex, Race, Religion]

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How can we all make our social events and community groups more inclusive of everyone?

Footnotes

  1. Bowleg, 2008 (PDF); Purdie-Vaughns & Eibach, 2008 (PDF); Williams & Fredrick, 2015 in McConnell. E.A., Janulis. P., Phillips. G., R., Birkett. M. (2018) ‘Multiple Minority Stress and LGBT Community Resilience among Sexual Minority Men’. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. 2018 Mar; 5(1): 1–12. doi: 10.1037/ sgd0000265 (Return to reference [15])

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