ArticlePsychology of sexual orientation and gender diversity2020
Exploring the Q in LGBTQ: Demographic characteristic and sexuality of Queer people in a U.S. representative sample of sexual minorities.
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- XYGO: proposing a new holistic measure of gender identity and sexual orientation.Nature reviews. Urology · 2025Review
- Mental and behavioral health care access and satisfaction among older sexual minority women.Academia mental health & well-being · 2025Article
- Minority stress and psychological well-being in queer populations.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Measurement opportunities for studying sexual and gender diverse partnerships in population-based surveys.Journal of marriage and the family · 2024Article
- Does intergenerational educational mobility vary by sexual identity? A comparative analysis of five OECD countries.European sociological review · 2024Article
- Disparities in Mental Health Symptoms Among Sexual and Gender Diverse Subgroups in a National Sample of College Students.Psychology of sexual orientation and gender diversity · 2024Article
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- Responses to Sexual and Gender Identity Measures in Population-Level Data by Birth Cohort: A Research Note.Demography · 2024Article
- Demographic factors associated with healthcare avoidance and delay in the transgender population: Findings from a systematic review.Dialogues in health · 2023Review
- "I Was Always Trying to Figure It Out… on My Own Terms": Structural Barriers, the Internet, and Sexual Identity Development among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer People of Different Generations.Journal of homosexuality · 2023Article
- Expanding Notions of LGBTQ.Annual review of sociology · 2023Article
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- Parent-Adult Child Estrangement in the United States by Gender, Race/ethnicity, and Sexuality.Journal of marriage and the family · 2023Article
- Critical action to redress systemic oppression: a person-centered approach.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Subcultural Identification, Penetration Practices, Masculinity, and Gender Labels within a Nationally Representative Sample of Three Cohorts of American Black, White, and Latina/o LGBQ People.Archives of sexual behavior · 2022Article
- Partnership Status and Mental Health in a Nationally Representative Sample of Sexual Minorities.Psychology of sexual orientation and gender diversity · 2022Article
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Abstract
Although queer identity has been used among sexual minorities for decades, little is known about the population of queer-identified people in the U.S. We compared people who identify as queer (unweighted n = 88; weighted % = 5.8%) with those who identify as lesbian/gay (n = 833; 46.9%), bisexual (n = 493; 40.6%) or other sexual minority identities (n = 93; 6.7%), in order to describe queer-identified people as a distinct sexual minority group. The study is the first to estimate demographic characteristics and sexuality of queer-identified people using a U.S. nationally representative sample. We found that queer people are overwhelmingly cisgender women and genderqueer/ nonbinary (GQNB), younger, and more highly educated than other groups. After stratifying by gender identity (cisgender women; cisgender men; GQNB), survey-weighted descriptive differences in attraction, sexual partnering, and relationship patterns show that queer individuals are more likely to report attraction to, and sexual relationships with, transgender and GQNB people, though differences by respondent gender identity were noted: The majority of queer women are attracted to and partnered with both women and men, and were more likely than other groups to be attracted to and partnered with cisgender and transgender people. In contrast, queer men are split in their attractions-about half were attracted exclusively to men, and half to men and women-but the majority partnered with men only. Of all groups, queer men are the most likely to partner with transgender men, but none had partnered with transgender women. GQNB people are more likely than cisgender people to identify as queer (25.9%) and are attracted to both cisgender and transgender women and men, yet predominantly partnered with cisgender people. The results provide support for queer as a distinct sexual identity.
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