Through artfully articulated, data-informed essays by twenty-six well-known and emerging queer activists, Bodies and Barriers illuminates the ubiquitous health challenges LGBT people experience throughout their lives. The book challenges conventional wisdom about health care delivery. It probes deeply into the roots of the health disparities and worsened health outcomes that the LGBT community face and empowers activists with crucial information to fight for health equity through clinical, behavioral, and policy changes. Provided by publisher.

Human Rights and Health for LGBT Youth -- Informed Consent for Intersex Children -- Navigating Pediatric Care for Transgender Youth -- Not Your Average Sex Talk -- Resiliency for Homeless Queer Youth -- Beyond Duct Tape: Binding for Transmasculine Youth -- Surviving Suicide -- Sex and Safety in the Digital Age -- Living Proudly, Living Longer: Advocating for Queer Spaces to be Tobacco Free -- Queer Family Planning: A Remedy to Depression -- Social Service Navigation for the LGBT Community -- That Ass Tho! Anal Health for the LGBT Community -- Addiction and Recover in the Queer Community -- Without Wincing or Clenching: Bisexual People's Experiences with Health Care Professionals -- Gender, Cancer, and Me -- "Laura is a Transgender. Didn't the Surgeons Do an Amazing Job?" -- Tobacco-Free Queers: Prime Time to Quit -- Challenging HIV Stigma -- Archiving AIDS: Intergenerational Education About an Epidemic -- Organizing against Social Isolation: Older Lesbians in Rural Communities -- Caregiving Concerns for LGBT Older Adults -- Housing and Health for LGBT Older Adults -- Grieving Together: LGBT Bereavement Support Groups.