Sexual and gender minority health vulnerabilities during the COVID‐19 health crisis.

Authors

Gibb, J.K., DuBois, L.Z., Williams, S., McKerracher, L., Juster, R. & Fields, J.

Type
Journal Article
Year published
2020
Journal
American Journal of Human Biology
Attachments
Document
46_Gibb_2020.pdf (1.02 MB)
Title

Sexual and gender minority health vulnerabilities during the COVID‐19 health crisis.

Volume and issue

35, 5

Source

46_Gibb_2020.pdf

Abstract

Coronavirus 19 (COVID-19), the infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is both transforming and ending lives. In only 7 months (December 2019-July 2020), at least 11 million people have contracted the virus and over 500 000 have died (WHO, 2020). Though its impact is wide, COVID-19's illness and death tolls are felt most acutely by communities experiencing multiple and intersecting (Crenshaw, 1989, 1990; see also Cho, Crenshaw, & McCall, 2013; Collins, 2015) vulnerabilities—including, but not only, those that are socioeconomic, health, and structural (Brennan, Card, Collict, Jollimore, & Lachowsky, 2020; Perez-Brumer & Silva-Santisteban, 2020; Poteat, Millett, Nelson, & Beyrer, 2020). Among those experiencing a compounding of vulnerabilities are sexual and gender minority (SGM) people, which collectively includes Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Two-Spirit, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual (LGBT2SQIA+) people.