Intersectional stigma subgroup differences in unhealthy drinking and disordered marijuana use among Black and Latino cisgender sexual minority young men

Examining the impact of daily discrimination on alcohol use among racially diverse, trauma-exposed sexually minoritized adults: A pilot study.

“…Research has also shown that SM individuals’ risk for substance use increases multiplicatively among those who report discrimination due to gender, race, and sexual orientation (vs. any one of these alone; McCabe et al, 2010). Moreover, among adults who are both SM and BIPOC, exposure to intersectional (i.e., race- and SM-based) minority stress is a more robust predictor of severe, problematic alcohol use behaviors than exposure to racial or homophobic discrimination alone (Cerezo & Ramirez, 2021; English et al, 2018; Layland et al, 2022). Unfortunately, however, much of this work relies on retrospective, cross-sectional measures that assess the average relationship between past discrimination exposure and alcohol use, rendering it difficult to establish a causal effect of discrimination exposure on drinking risk.…”