Green River LibGuides: ENGL 101 English Composition 1 (Theme: Mental Health): Mental Health &amp; LGBTQIA+ Communities

Understanding Mental Health Within LGBTQIA+ Communities

Featured Resources

Mental Health & LGBTQIA+ Communities

Featured Websites

The Trevor Project
National organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young people ages 13-24. Homelessness resoures are listed on the Community page.
2022 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health, 2022
"Capturing the experiences of nearly 34,000 LGBTQ youth ages 13 to 24 across the United States, with 45% of respondents being LGBTQ youth of color and 48% being transgender or nonbinary." From the Trevor Project.
APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Sexual Minority Persons
Identity and Cultural Dimensions -- National Alliance on Mental Illness
National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network
"The National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network (NQTTCN) is a healing justice organization committed to transforming mental health for queer and trans people of color (QTPoC). We work at the intersection of movements for social justice and the field of mental health to integrate healing justice into both of these spaces. Our overall goal is to increase access to healing justice resources for QTPoC."
Queering the Map
"Queering the Map is a community generated counter-mapping platform for digitally archiving LGBTQ2IA+ experience in relation to physical space."
Trans Lifeline
"Trans Lifeline is a grassroots hotline and microgrants 501(c)(3) non-profit organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community." Hotline: US (877) 565-8860
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"Trans Lifeline’s Hotline is a peer support phone service run by trans people for our trans and questioning peers. Call us if you need someone trans to talk to, even if you’re not in crisis or if you’re not sure you’re trans."
MyPronouns.org
A website aimed at helping you understand the meaning and use of different pronouns

Mental Health & LGBTQIA+ Communities

Featured Podcasts

Bottoming (podcast)
"Led by co-hosts Brendan Geoghegan and Matthew Riley, Bottoming is a podcast created for individuals within the LGBTQ+ community experiencing difficulties and mental health concerns. Each episode navigates difficult conversations."
Hidden Brain: America's Changing Attitudes Toward Gay People
A 7-minute listen - from NPR's Morning Edition with Hidden Brain's Shankar Vedantam
Homo Sapiens (podcast)
"The world from a queer perspective: conversations, stories, and a good old laugh with LGBTQ+ icons, allies, and of course, our lovely listeners."
Making Gay History Podcast
"Making Gay History is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that brings the largely hidden history of the LGBTQ civil rights movement to life through the voices of the people who lived it."
The Mental Illness Happy Hour
" With input from comedians, artists, friends and (some) doctors, Paul Gilmartin is on a mission to normalize what has for too long been stigmatized. He and his guests talk openly and honestly about the things that don’t get talked about in public, the struggles and pains and trauma of their own lives in order to bring to light the truth that the world is much more than black and white stories."
Radically Normal
A 52-minute episode from Hidden Brain (see "more" for episode description)
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"For generations, living openly as a gay person in the United States was difficult, and often dangerous. But there's been a dramatic change in public attitudes toward gay people. This week, we explore one of the most striking transformations of public attitude ever recorded. And we consider whether the strategies used by gay rights activists hold lessons for other groups seeking change."
Transgender and LGBTQIA+ Mental Health
An episode of the podcast "Inside Mental Health" from Psych Central
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"Are you familiar with the concept of “gender affirming care” in medical treatment? What about the unique mental health needs of this community? Do you know what all the letters in LGBTQIA+ stand for?

Join us as today’s guest, from the Sierra Tucson Treatment Center, explains these concepts and helps us better understand — and provide better mental health care to — members of the LGBTQIA+ population."
Transgender and LGBTQ Mental Health
A 37 minute episode of the Psychiatry Unbound podcast, featuring a "conversation between Drs Laura Roberts and Eric Yarbrough. Dr. Roberts then discusses with Dr. Lawrence McGlynn his experience working within the LGBTQ community."