Perceived Stigma, Discrimination, and Disclosure of Sexual Orientation Among a Sample of Lesbian Veterans Receiving Care in the Department of Veterans Affairs

Mattocks, Kristin M.; Sullivan, Jill; Bertrand, Christina; Kinney, Rebecca L.; Sherman, Michelle D.; Gustason, Carolyn

doi:10.1089/lgbt.2014.0131

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“…The moment of disclosure. Twenty studies commented on patients' beliefs of the relevance of SO to health care as both a barrier and facilitator to disclosure; people who thought it was relevant were more likely to disclose, [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] whereas those who thought it was irrelevant were less likely to reveal their identity. 21,[23][24][25][27][28][29][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39] One participant felt the need to disclose to enable their healthcare professional to provide 'more focused advice' 24 and another thought their 'gayness to be highly relevant to [their] health needs'.…”

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“…Twenty studies commented on patients' beliefs of the relevance of SO to health care as both a barrier and facilitator to disclosure; people who thought it was relevant were more likely to disclose, [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] whereas those who thought it was irrelevant were less likely to reveal their identity. 21,[23][24][25][27][28][29][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39] One participant felt the need to disclose to enable their healthcare professional to provide 'more focused advice' 24 and another thought their 'gayness to be highly relevant to [their] health needs'. 21 36 Communication factors, such as using inclusive language 30,34,36,[39][40][41] and open, welcoming body language, 23,34,36,[41][42][43] were seen as facilitators to disclosure whereas the opposites -closed-off or unfriendly body language 41 and heteronormative language, 26,…”

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Sexual orientation disclosure in health care: a systematic review

Brooks¹,

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The facilitators and barriers to SO disclosure by LGBT individuals are widespread but most were modifiable and could therefore be targeted to improve healthcare professionals' awareness of their patients' SO. Healthcare professionals should be aware of the broad range of factors that influence SO disclosure and the potential disadvantageous effects of non-disclosure on care. The environment in which patients are seen should be welcoming of different SOs as well as ensuring that healthcare professionals' communication skills, both verbal and non-verbal, are accepting and inclusive.

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Sexual orientation disclosure in health care: a systematic review

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“…For many of these consequences, social stigma is considered one of the central mechanisms (for an overview, see Brand 2015). The social stigma literature, in contrast, rarely addresses the stigma of unemployment, instead focussing on the stigma of mental or physical illness (Baumann 2007;Scambler 2009), race (Mosley and Rosenberg 2007;Sigelman and Tuch 1997), ethnicity (Binggeli et al 2014), sexual orientation (Herek 2010;Mattocks et al 2015), etc. If at all, unemployment is only addressed as a potential consequence of other social stigmas such as mental illness or history of incarceration (cf., Link and Phelan 2001;LeBel 2008;Karren and Sherman 2012).…”

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The social stigma of unemployment: consequences of stigma consciousness on job search attitudes, behaviour and success

Krug

Drasch

Jungbauer-Gans

2019

J Labour Market Res

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Studies show that the unemployed face serious disadvantages in the labour market and that the social stigma of unemployment is one explanation. In this paper, we focus on the unemployed's expectations of being stigmatized (stigma consciousness) and the consequences of such negative expectations on job search attitudes and behaviour. Using data from the panel study "Labour Market and Social Security" (PASS), we find that the unemployed with high stigma consciousness suffer from reduced well-being and health. Regarding job search, the stigmatized unemployed are more likely to expect that their chances of re-employment are low, but in contrast, they are more likely to place a high value on becoming re-employed. Instead of becoming discouraged and passive, we find that stigmatized unemployed individuals increase their job search effort compared to other unemployed individuals. However, despite their higher job search effort, the stigma-conscious unemployed do not have better re-employment chances.

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“…I found no studies that examined the sexual orientation of formerly incarcerated individuals. The literature on veterans and sexual orientation existed primarily in psychology and counseling journals, and largely focused on the mental and physical health of LGBT veterans (see Blosnich, Mays, and Cochran 2014;Johnson and Federman 2013;Kauth et al 2014;Mattocks et al 2015;Sherman et al 2014). While it is difficult to quantify the number of veterans who identify as LGBT as the VA does not maintain records on this information, many…”

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Limited Intersectional Approaches to Veteran and Former Prisoner Reintegration: Examining Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation

Dernberger¹

2017

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This paper is published in Sociological Imagination. Citation: Dernberger, Brittany. 2017. “Limited Intersectional Approaches to Veteran and Former Prisoner Reintegration: Examining Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation.” Sociological Imagination 53(1): 100-131. Recent legal and policy changes within two prominent institutions, the military and criminal justice system, have profoundly altered the visibility – and subsequent rights – of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) service members and those currently incarcerated. Comparing these two institutions side-by-side illustrates how LGBT inequality mechanisms operate at both an individual and systemic level. Both the military and criminal justice system are total, hypermasculine institutions, both are socially concentrated experiences, both end with a changed relationship with the state, and both veterans and those formerly incarcerated have comparable challenges to reintegration upon returning to their communities. Intersectional analysis provides an apt tool to critically examine how reintegration processes differ for those identifying as LGBT. I examine ways in which existing literature is intersectional and highlight the lack of analyses about systems of power that amplify or moderate former prisoner re-entry and veteran transition for those identifying as LGBT. Finally, I discuss why there may be a lack of attention to intersectionality, and specifically to LGBT individuals, in the literature and address how an intersectional framework would contribute to both public policy and to expanding the existing literature on social inequality and stratification.

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Perceived Stigma, Discrimination, and Disclosure of Sexual Orientation Among a Sample of Lesbian Veterans Receiving Care in the Department of Veterans Affairs

Cited by 51 publications

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Sexual orientation disclosure in health care: a systematic review

Sexual orientation disclosure in health care: a systematic review

The social stigma of unemployment: consequences of stigma consciousness on job search attitudes, behaviour and success

Limited Intersectional Approaches to Veteran and Former Prisoner Reintegration: Examining Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation

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