My dual book review of The Health of Sexual Minorities and Sexual Inequalities and Social Justice has been published in the journal, Culture, Health, and Sexuality! You can find it here if you have access to journal articles. If not, here are some choice quotes -- translated wonderfully into British English:

Perhaps the collection's most forward-thinking section, titled 'LGBT Health and the State', includes a series of essays on activism, social justice and legal issues facing sexual minorities. In 'The Importance of Being Perverse: Troubling Law, Identities, Health and Rights, in Search of Global Justice', legal scholars Stefano Fabeni and Alice M. Miller argue that 'policy makers and practitioners concerned with sexual health or with the health of persons of diverse sexualities can and should be part of a global struggle for justice and rights' (p. 93). Rather than rallying for social change under the banner of 'freedom' or 'equality', social justice movements globally are increasingly turning to health within an international human rights framework to organise their arguments. This is in part due to a realisation that foundations and government agencies are much more likely to be interested in funding HIVprevention programs than, say, a campaign to end homophobia (although the two may have similar ends). As such, this section's essays are timely and useful for understanding this shift in organising.

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Ironically, numerous articles throughout The Health of Sexual Minorities are focused on the very negative outcomes that Savin-Williams describes for LGBT youth. A cursory read of the book's included articlesmight leave an unfamiliar reader thinking that lesbians have high rates of breast cancer; Latino gay men are addicted to methamphetamine; LGBT people are alcoholics and heavy smokers; and of course, many men who have sex with men are having unprotected sex and contracting HIV (particularly men of colour). This is not to say that any of these things is particularly inaccurate, per se. Rather, it seems that getting public health research funded and published requires reporting the worst evidence possible from minority populations. Public health officials and scholars are continually allowed to denigrate and scold minority groups for their bad habits, while rarely (if ever) reporting on any of the positive potential health outcomes from being gay (or, for that matter, the negative health outcomes from being heterosexual). The same could be said for public health scholarship on race and/or gender. This perspective has unfortunately been buttressed by some scholars of 'queer theory' who have insisted on painting 'gay' and 'lesbian' identities as dangerous and backwards.ave

Enjoy!