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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Kinmen Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Executive Yuan, Kinmen, Taiwan

    Chih-Yun Hsu

  2. Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

    Chih-Yun Hsu

  3. Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    Cheng-Fang Yen

  4. Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, 100 Tzyou 1st Road, Kaohsiung, 807, Taiwan

    Cheng-Fang Yen

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Hsu, CY., Yen, CF. Taiwan: Pioneer of the Health and Well-Being of Sexual Minorities in Asia. Arch Sex Behav 46, 1577–1579 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-017-1036-z

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