Expectations of prejudice and discrimination can lead LGBTQ+ patients to avoid seeking health care. Nadzeya Haroshka/iStock via Getty Images Even among medical providers who practice some form of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Heteronormativity assumes that heterosexuality is the only “normal” or “natural” sexual orientation. According to this school of thought, which is plaguing society, a couple is necessarily made up of ...

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 ...

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 ...

William Robertson receives funding from The Wenner-Gren Foundation. Even among medical providers who practice some form of cultural competency – an awareness of and respect for differences across ...