Resources
Having access to information is important for our health and well-being. On this page, you will find LGBTQ health resources produced by our team, our collaborators, and/or our partners.
We have organized these resources by topic and population/community, although many of these topics and populations intersect and overlap.
Please contact us for more information about the resources produced by our team, and if you have resources (articles, events, news, groups, organizations, etc.) in your community that are relevant to our research, please share them with us: lgbtq_health@camh.net.
General LGBTQ Health
Mulé, N.J., Ross, L.E., Deeprose, B., Jackson, B., Daley, A., Travers, A., & Moore, D. (2009). Promoting LGBT health and wellbeing through inclusive policy development. International Journal for Equity in Health, 8(18), doi: 10.1186/1475-9276-8-18.
Jackson, B. and the Ontario Rainbow Health Partnership Project Social Determinants of Health Committee (Daley, A., Moore, D., Mulé, N., Ross, L.E., & Travers, A.). (2006). Whose public health? An intersectional approach to sexual orientation, gender identity, and the development of public health goals for Canada. A Discussion Paper of the Ontario Rainbow Health Partnership Project (Rainbow Health Network/Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ontario).
Tate, J. & Ross, L.E. (2003). Addressing the Needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, Queer, and Questioning Clients within University Psychiatric Services: Reflections and Recommendations. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, 22(2), 59-68.
Ross, L.E., Doctor, F., Dimito, A., Kuehl, D. & Armstrong, M. (2008). Can Talking About Oppression Reduce Depression? – Modified CBT Group Treatment for LGBT People with Depression. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services, 19(1), 1-15, doi: 10.1300/J041v19n01_01. © Routledge
Newman, P.A., Bogo, M., & Daley, A. (2009). Breaking the Silence: Sexual Orientation in Social Work Field Education. Journal of Social Work Education, 45(1), 7-28, doi: 10.5175/JSWE.2009.200600093.
Daley, A. (2010). Being Recognized, Accepted, and Affirmed: Self-Disclosure of Lesbian/Queer Sexuality Within Psychiatric and Mental Health Service Settings. Social Work in Mental Health, 8(4), 336-355, doi:10.1080/15332980903158202. © Routledge
Rainbow Health Ontario Resource Database
Asking the Right Questions 2: Talking with clients about sexual orientation and gender identity in mental health, counseling and addiction settings. Centre for Addiction & Mental Health.
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
Women-specific Resources
Steele, L.S., Ross, L.E., Dobinson, C., Veldhuizen, S., & Tinmouth, J. (2009). Women’s Sexual Orientation and Health: Results from a Canadian Population-Based Survey. Women & Health, 49(5), 353-367. © Routledge
Ross, L.E. & Steele, L. (2006). Chapter 14: Special groups – Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and transsexual women. In A literature review on depression among women: Focusing on Ontario. Report for the Ontario Women’s Health Council, Toronto, Canada, edited by N. Diaz-Granados & D.E. Stewart (pp. 137-147). (1)
Ross, L.E. (2005). Perinatal Mental Health in Lesbian Mothers: A Review of Potential Risk and Protective Factors. Women & Health, 41(3), 113-128, doi: 10.1300/J013v41n03_07. © Routledge
Ross, L.E., Steele, L., Goldfinger, C. & Strike, C. (2007). Perinatal depressive symptomatology among lesbian and bisexual women. Archives of Women’s Mental Health, 10(2), 53-59. © Springer (2)
Steele, L.S., Ross, L.E., Epstein, R., Strike, C., & Goldfinger, C. (2008). Correlates of mental health service use among lesbian, gay, and bisexual mothers and prospective mothers. Women & Health, 47(3), 95-112. © Routledge (2)
Steele, L.S., Tinmouth, J.M., & Lu, A. (2006). Regular health care use by lesbians: a path analysis of predictive factors. Family Practice, 23, 631-636. © Oxford University Press
Daley, A. (2003). Lesbian Health and the Assumption of Heterosexuality: An Organizational Perspective. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, 22(2), 105-121.
Daley, A. (2010). Being Recognized, Accepted, and Affirmed: Self-Disclosure of Lesbian/Queer Sexuality Within Psychiatric and Mental Health Service Settings. Social Work in Mental Health, 8(4), 336-355. doi:10.1080/15332980903158202. © Routledge
Bauer, G.R. & Jairam, J.A. (2008). Are lesbians really women who have sex with women (WSW)? Methodological concerns in health research on sexual minority women. Women & Health, 48(4), 383-408. © Routledge
Bauer, G.R. & Welles, S.L. (2001). Beyond assumptions of negligible risk: Sexually transmitted diseases and women who have sex with women. American Journal of Public Health, 91(8), 1282-1286. © American Public Health Association
Boehmer, U., Bowen, D.J., & Bauer, G.R. (2007). Overweight and obesity in sexual minority women: Evidence from population-based data. American Journal of Public Health, 97(6), 1134-1140. © American Public Health Association
Bisexual-specific Resources
CAMH study shows mental health services don’t meet the needs of bisexual people (3)
Ross, L.E., Dobinson, C., & Eady, A. (2010). Perceived determinants of mental health for bisexual people: A qualitative examination. American Journal of Public Health, 100(3), 496-502, doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.156307. © American Public Health Association (3)
Eady, A., Dobinson C., & Ross, L.E. (2010). Bisexual peoples’ experiences with mental health services: A qualitative investigation. Community Mental Health Journal, doi: 10.1007/s10597-010-9329-x. © Springer (3)
Bisexual Invisibility: Impacts and Recommendations. San Francisco Human Rights Commission
The Fence: A zine for bisexual women created by Cheryl Dobinson
Dobinson, C. (2010). References - Ten Things Bisexual People Should Discuss With Their Health Care Providers
Top Ten Bisexual Health Issues
RHO Fact Sheet: Bisexual Health
Men-specific Resources
Brennan, D.J., Ross, L.E., Dobinson, C., Veldhuizen, S., & Steele, L.S. (2010). Men’s sexual orientation and health in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 101(3), 255-258. © Canadian Public Health Association
Ross, M.W., Simon Rosser, B.R., Bauer, G.R., Bockting, W.O., Robinson, B.E., Rugg, D.L., & Coleman, E. (2001). Drug Use, Unsafe Sexual Behavior, and Internalized Homonegativity in Men Who Have Sex With Men. AIDS and Behavior, 5(1), 97-103, doi: 10.1023/A:1009567707294. © Springer
Hart, T.A. & Schwartz, D.R. (2010). Cognitive behavioral erectile dysfunction treatment for gay and bisexual men. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 17, 66-76, doi: 10.1016/j.cbpra.2009.04.009.
Please see our Gay Community page to learn more about some of the work being done in Ontario on gay and bisexual men and HIV.
Trans-specific Resources
The Trans PULSE Project is a community-based mixed-methods project that explores the ways in which social exclusion, cisnormativity (the belief that trans identities or bodies are less authentic or “normal”), and transphobia shape health and health care for trans people. From April 2009 to May 2010, 433 trans people from across Ontario completed a 87-page survey. This data is now being analyzed and shared through a variety of means, including E-Bulletins.
Who are Trans People in Ontario?
Gapka, S. et al. (2003). Trans Health Project. Ontario Public Health Association.
Bauer, G.R., Hammond, R., Travers, R., Kaay, M., Hohenadel, K.M., & Boyce, M. (2009). “I Don’t Think This Is Theoretical; This Is Our Lives”: How Erasure Impacts Health Care for Transgender People. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 20(5), 348-361. © Elsevier
Khobzi, N. (2010). The Health of Ontario’s Transgender Communities: Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Depression, “Do-It-Yourself” Transitions, and Health Effects of Cross-Sex Hormones and Surgeries. Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. Paper 41.
Canadian Professional Association for Transgender Health
Trans Programs at The 519 (Toronto).
TRANS FACT SHEET – simple
language. Prepared by Trans Programs at the 519 Church Street Community Centre.
Guidelines and Protocols for Comprehensive Primary Health Care for Trans Clients
Transsexual Transgender (ts/tg) Parenting Brochure
M. Potter, M. (2011). Tips for providing paps to trans men. LGBT Family Health Team, Sherbourne Health Centre.
LGBTQ Families
Adoption
Queer Parenting Info Brochure Series: LGBTQ Adoption (4)
Ross, L.E., Epstein, R., Goldfinger, C., & Yager, C. (2009). Policy and Practice Regarding Adoption by Sexual and Gender Minority People in Ontario. Canadian Public Policy, 35(4), 451-467. © University of Toronto Press (4)
Ross, L.E., Epstein, R., Anderson, S., & Eady, A. (2009). Policy, Practice, and Personal Narratives: Experiences of LGBTQ People with Adoption in Ontario, Canada. Adoption Quarterly, 12(3), 272-293, doi: 10.1080/10926750903313302. © Routledge (4)
Eady, A., Ross, L.E., Anderson, S. & Epstein, R. (2009). To bi or not to bi: Bisexuality and disclosure in the adoption system. In Who’s your daddy? And other writings on queer parenting, edited by Rachel Epstein (pp. 124-132). Toronto: Sumach Press. (4)
Ross, L.E., Epstein, R., Goldfinger, C., Steele, L.E., Anderson, S., & Strike, C. (2008). Lesbian and queer mothers navigating the adoption systems: impacts on mental health. Health Sociology Review, 17(3), 254-266. © eContent Management Pty Ltd (5)
McKay, K., Ross, L.E., & Goldberg, A.E. (2010). Adaptation to Parenthood During the Post-Adoption Period: A Review of the Literature. Adoption Quarterly, 13(2), 125-144. © Routledge. Full article available via Dr. Abbie Goldberg’s website (6)
McKay, K. & Ross, L.E. (2011). Current Practices and Barriers to the Provision of Post-Placement Support: A Pilot Study from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. British Journal of Social Work, 41(1), 57-73. © Oxford University Press (6)
McKay, K. & Ross, L.E. (2010). The transition to adoptive parenthood: A pilot study of parents adopting in Ontario, Canada. Children and Youth Services Review, 32(4), 604-610, doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2009.12.007. © Elsevier (6)
Assisted Human Reproduction
Yager, C., Brennan, D., Steele, L.S., Epstein, R., & Ross, L.E. (2010). Challenges and Mental Health Experiences of Lesbian and Bisexual Women Who Are Trying to Conceive. Health & Social Work, 35(3), 191-200. © National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Press
Ross, L.E., Steele, L.S., & Epstein, R. (2006). Service use and gaps in services for lesbian and bisexual women during donor insemination, pregnancy, and the postpartum period. Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology Canada, 505-511. (7) Permission to post this article on this website has been provided courtesy of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
Ross, L.E., Steele, L. & Sapiro, B. (2005). Perceptions of Predisposing and Protective Factors for Perinatal Depression in Same-Sex Parents. The Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health, 50, e65-e70, doi: 10.1016/j.jmwh.2005.08.002. © Elsevier (7)
Ross, L.E., Steele, L.S., & Epstein, R. (2006). Lesbian and bisexual women’s recommendations for improving the provision of assisted reproductive technology services. Fertility & Sterility, 86(3), 735-738. © Elsevier (7)
To read about more research in the area of LGBTQ families, visit Dr. Abbie Goldberg’s website.
LGBTQ Parenting Connection Resource Database
Accessibility Information
Sexual orientation and gender identity are not the only social determinants of health that affect the lives of LGBTQ people. For instance, some LGBTQ people’s identities and thus health are affected by their physical or cognitive/developmental capabilities; some LGBTQ people live with disabilities. Below are some things our team is committed to doing so that LGBTQ people with disabilities can collaborate with us and participate in our projects.
Wheelchair Access
Our office is located in a building with an automatic door opening button and an elevator. All of our advisory committee meetings are held at wheelchair accessible locations. If you use a wheelchair and would like to participate in an interview for a project you may come to our office or the interviewer can come to your home.
ASL Interpretation
ASL interpretation is available to our interview participants. Please let the interviewer know if you require ASL interpretation.
TTY Services
We are prepared to use Teletypewriter (TTY), Telecommunication Device for the Deaf (TTD) or Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) so that LGBTQ people with hearing or speech difficulties can participate in our studies.
Scent-free Environment
Our office is a scent-free environment. Some people have allergies to scents. Please do not wear any scents, perfumes or colognes if you are coming to our office.
Notes:
1. Results from Literature review of women and depression, funded by the Ontario Women’s Health Council
2. Some results from Mothering on the Margins. Please see our Projects page for more information about this study.
3. Results from Understanding the context of bisexual mental health. Please see our Projects page for more information about this study.
4. Results from Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, and two-spirit adoption in Ontario: Policy, practice and personal narratives. Please see our Projects page for more information about this study.
5. Results from Mental health in LGBTTT mothers: Issues for adoptive parents, funded by the Lesbian Health Fund of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (US).
6. These three articles are not LGBTQ-specific.
7. Results from Mental health in lesbian biological mothers and co-parents: A pilot study, supported by the Community One Foundation, formerly the Lesbian and Gay Community Appeal. Please see our Projects page to learn about our most recent study on LGBTQ people’s experiences with assisted human reproduction services in Ontario.
* We have done our best to adhere to publication / open access agreements as well as acknowledge research funders. Please inform us if we have not done so (correctly) and we will edit and/or remove the citation or link posted on our website as soon as possible: lgbtq_health@camh.net. Thank you.
