Human Rights Campaign, September 17, 2015 HRC’s research brief published today underscores a dangerous but largely hidden crisis – the striking physical, mental and sexual health disparities bisexual people face. The Health Disparities Among Bisexual People report, based on the most recent and reliable data available on bisexual health and released in partnership with the Bisexual...
app.com, 6:56 p.m. EDT June 16, 2015
For years, academic research has shown that lesbian and bisexual women abuse alcohol at higher rates than their heterosexual counterparts.
Why?
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ACON, 18 March 2015
A world leading study shows that lesbian, bisexual and queer women experience a range of poor health outcomes including high rates of mental health issues, and rates of smoking and risky alcohol use much higher than those of women in the general population.
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Reuters, Tue Feb 10, 2015 7:27pm EST
Lesbians may be at higher risk of cervical cancer because they get fewer screenings than heterosexual women, due partly to doctors’ sometimes incorrect assumptions about their sexual history, University of Washington researchers said on Tuesday.
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Eureka Alerts, 13-Jan-2015
Bisexual women are more likely to experience poor mental health and mental distress than lesbians, according to new research published in the Journal of Public Health.
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The 2012 Sydney Women and Sexual Health (SWASH) survey report is a critical piece of health research for Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer (LBQ) women in Australia. Over its lifetime, SWASH has become a comprehensive survey of sexual health and wellbeing, violence, mental health and levels of psychological distress, and a number of other important health issues relevant to LBQ women in Sydney, such as...