Sexual minorities : discrimination, challenges and development in America

M. Sullivan

Sexual Minorities: Discrimination, Challenges, and Development in America examines the stumbling blocks that prevent gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and trangenders from living wholesome, healthy lives. This book concentrates on the effects of outside influences on the homosexual psyche from adolescence to mid-life and programs and services that need to be developed to improve quality of life. While some outside influences can make positive changes - such as Internet-based outreach to educate men in chat rooms about HIV - sexual minority groups face negativity from society in the forms of homophobia and heterosexism.