Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Expectations of prejudice and discrimination can lead LGBTQ+ patients to avoid seeking health care. Nadzeya Haroshka/iStock via ...

You may have seen the terms floating around on social media, but perhaps the best way to define cisnormative behaviors or heteronormativity is by example. Cisnormativity is the assumption that a ...

You've probably heard the term "heteronormativity" being thrown around in discussions of gender and sexuality, but do you actually know what heteronormativity is? Have you just been glossing over the ...

I sort of joke that I wrote myself into graduate school because halfway through working on my book, Raising LGBTQ Allies, I applied to grad school to become an LGBTQ-affirming therapist. At graduate ...

Here we are in the age of marriage equality, right? Or are there more things to consider? While I'm happy for the people who want to get married and couldn’t before June 27, 2015, we must keep asking ...

Alena Papayanis is a Professor of Arts and Humanities at Humber College in Toronto and a writer whose work focuses on queer issues, including coming out later in life. “What kind of birth control are ...

Heteronormativity refers to a cultural bias that presumes heterosexuality is the natural and normal default state of all people. Under this worldview, cisgender male and female bodies are treated as ...

Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community have long experienced prejudice in medical settings. This can range from microaggressions, such as comments that a patient ...