Sexual and gender minority health vulnerabilities during the COVID‐19 health crisis.
Type
Year published
Journal
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.