Trend Analysis of Medical Publications About LGBT Persons: 1950–2007

LGBT Health Research: Introduction to the Special Issue

“…Stereotypes about disease and contagion abounded even in the scientific literature. By the 1970s, around the time that homosexuality was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Drescher, 2012), a few articles began to appear about providing compassionate care to sexual minority individuals, especially adolescents, and articles that proposed homosexuality as deviance or advocated for cures declined (Snyder, 2011). Psychology led the way, though, and many more articles about mental health (depression and suicide in particular) and counseling of lesbians and gay men were published than articles about any physical health concerns, at least until the mid-1980s, with the explosion of research on HIV/AIDS.…”

Sexual Minority Health: A Bibliography and Preliminary Study of the Book Literature

“…Parenting and aging are important concerns of LGBT persons, yet, there is little discussion of these topics to date." 11 These are areas in which publishers and authors could fill gaps. There is also a need for books for teachers about LGBT students in their classrooms, for education administrators on LGBT-friendly policies for schools, and on including education about LGBT students and issues in teacher preparation programs.…”

“…2,10,11 This has an influence on the volume and quality of publication in the scholarly literature on this topic and on the practice of evidence-based health LGBTtargeted communications were the exception rather than the norm." 12 McKay published a more current selected list of 12 websites related to LGBT health.…”

“…11 He encountered difficulties with searching comprehensively for articles on LGBT health due to database structures and the limitations of subject headings and keyword fields. Others have noted challenges in identifying published resources on LGBT health include the multiplicity of terms that are related and the ongoing evolution of the terminology.…”

“…Others have noted challenges in identifying published resources on LGBT health include the multiplicity of terms that are related and the ongoing evolution of the terminology. 11,16,17,18,19,20 Daley and Mulé studied gender and sexual identity terminology in the first four editions of the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), which "has grown into a powerful mechanism that has the means of controlling sexual behavior and defining normative gender concepts and labeling anything that falls outside of this restricted purview as pathologically a mental disorder." 16 Ciszek commented that efforts to improve access to information through thesauri, catalogs, and indexes were somewhat successful only for the topics of "gay men" and "lesbians."…”