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Special Section on LGBT Resilience Across Cultures: Introduction

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American Journal of Community Psychology

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This special section addresses a gap area of resilience and LGBT well-being. Although comprehensive global diversity regarding LGBT resilience was challenging to find, the special section includes representation from outside the US (Israel and Hong Kong), ethnic/racially diverse domestic populations, immigration, and one population for which LGBT identities might be considered marginalized—Christians in the US. The full range of LGBT identities are represented in the issue along with persons identifying as queer or questioning, although transgendered people were less well represented than lesbian, gay or bisexual identities.

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  1. Washington College, Chestertown, MD, USA

    Christopher R. Beasley

  2. Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Richard A. Jenkins

  3. Education Development Center, Waltham, MA, USA

    Maria Valenti

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Correspondence to Richard A. Jenkins.

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Beasley, C.R., Jenkins, R.A. & Valenti, M. Special Section on LGBT Resilience Across Cultures: Introduction. Am J Community Psychol 55, 164–166 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10464-015-9701-7

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