About
Healthcare for the LGBTQ+ community has evolved dramatically from its early years, when being a member of that community was labeled as a mental illness and/or a danger to society.
As the gay rights movement gained traction, the AIDS crisis brought additional challenges, including inaction by the government and some healthcare providers. These challenges drove many advocacy groups and individuals to speak up for the human and civil rights of this population.
Despite these efforts, as well as increased acceptance of visibility of LGBTQ+ individuals and groups within society at large, discrimination remained in the form of intolerance, microaggressions and barriers to healthcare access. With recent politicization of LGBTQ+ issues, access to culturally competent healthcare continues to be a challenge.
This collection highlights some of Emory WHSC Library’s resources with titles including Affirmative Counseling for Transgender and Gender Diverse Clients, The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory & Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health and Queering Public Health and Public Policy in the Deep South.
In Print
Adult Transgender Care: An interdisciplinary approach for training mental health professionals by WHSC Library, WA 305 .AA1 A38 2018
Affirmative Counseling for Transgender and Gender Diverse Clients by In print at Woodruff Library HQ77.9 .D53 2023 and eBook
The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist by eBook, 2018 and in print at WHSC Library Z 100 B37 2018
Black LGBT Health in the United States: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation by Woodruff Library RA564.9.S49 B53 2017
Bodies in Doubt: An American history of intersex by In print at Woodruff Library RC883 .R45 2021
Born Gay: The psychobiology of sex orientation by Library Service Center QP81.6 .W55 2005
The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory & transformative approaches to LGBTQ+ health by Woodruff Library, RA564.9.S49 C37 2021 and Oxford Library 362.10866 C2712
The Case Against Conversion Therapy: evidence, ethics, and alternatives by Woodruff Library RC558 .C326 2022 and eBook
Clinicians Guide to LGBTQIA+ care: Cultural safety and social justice in primary, sexual, and reproductive healthcare by WHSC Library WA 300.1 C55 2022
LGBT Psychology and Mental Health: Emerging Research and Advances by WHSC Library WA 305.1 L48 2017 and eBook
The Handbook of LGBTQIA-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care by Publication Date: 2023-10-10Online and in print at WHSC Library, WB 310 A32 2017
LGBTQ Cultures: What health care professionals need to know about sexual and gender diversity by WHSC Library WA 300.1 L43 2018
Queering Health: Critical challenges to normative health and healthcare by Woodruff Library RA564.9.H65 Q84 2014
The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health Care by eBook and in print at WHSC Library WA 300 R44 2016 and Robert W. Woodruff Library RA564.9.H65 R44 2016
Rethinking MSM, Trans* and Other Categories in HIV Prevention by WHSC Library WC 503.6 R48 2018
Surgical Management of the Transgender Patient by WHSC Library WO 620 S87 2017 and eBook
Transformations in Queer, Trans, and Intersex Health and Aging by Woodruff Library RA564.9.S49 N69 2020
Transgender Health and Medicine: History, practice, research, and the future by Woodruff Library RA564.9.T73 B48 2019 and eBook
Trans Health: International perspectives on care for trans communities by Woodruff Library RA564.9.T73 T73 2022 and eBook
When AIDS Began: San Francisco and the Making of an Epidemic by WHSC Library WC 503.4 AC2 C661 2004
eBooks
Global LGBTQ Health: Research, policy, practice, and pathways by eBook and in print at Woodruff Library RA564.9.S49 G56 2024
LGBTQ+ Terminology Cataloging Enhancement Project
When a resource is added to the Emory University Library databases, catalogers choose subject headings to ensure that the material is correctly described and ultimately, findable.
Traditionally, the subject headings list most used comes from the Library of Congress. Since the list was established in 1897, there have been many shifts in terminology, language, and general concepts when it comes to discussing sexual and gender diversity, expression, identities, and differences.
To improve description of historically marginalized communities in the Emory library catalog, Emory catalogers have adopted the use of the Homosaurus, a specialized vocabulary for describing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) materials. The use of Homosaurus’s inclusive terminology can help to mitigate the harm caused by outdated, inaccurate, or offensive terms from other vocabularies and ensure that the vocabulary used in Emory’s cataloging is the current language of the LGBTQ+ community.
Examples of new subject headings includes the following:
- Health care for LGBTQ+ people
- HIV-undetectable people
- Indigenous intersex people
- Mental health care for LGBTQ+ people
- Reproductive health care for LGBTQ+ people
- Survivors of anti-LGBTQ+ violence
- Transgender health care bans