A Developmental Model of the Sexual Minority Closet: Implications for Arab Immigrant Sexual Minorities and Parent-LGBTQ Child Sex Communication

Inclusion of the MENA Category in the U.S. Census: Will MENA Individuals and Their Health Disparities be Finally Visible?

“…Similarly, MENA LGBTQ+ people are also made invisible twice over. Their experiences are unique due to their multiple intersectional identities (sexual/ gender, ethnic/racial, religious, and immigrant identities) that create different forms of marginalization and invisibility and impact their overall health (Abboud and Flores 2023;Harfouch and German 2018). LGBTQ+ people are already understudied in public health, and when combined with a lack of MENA categorization, the health disparities of MENA LGBTQ+ (e.g., adverse mental health outcomes, HIV/STI risk behaviors) are impossible to account for and consequently to address and prevent.…”