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How stigma impacts LGB health and wellbeing in Australia

  • Written by Francisco Perales, Senior Research Fellow (Institute for Social Science Research & Life Course Centre) and ARC DECRA Fellow, The University of Queensland
LGB people are overall happier and healthier in communities with fewer 'no' votes in last year's same-sex marriage referendum. Shutterstock

Research in Australia and internationally has documented poor health and wellbeing among LGBTQI people compared to heterosexual people. What’s less understood are the reasons why.

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