A significant challenge for LGBT personnel is maintaining healthy romantic and/or platonic relationships while navigating societal and organizational barriers. These barriers can include...
How Same-Sex Partners Provide Emotional Support to Each Other During Service
Same-sex partners can provide each other with emotional support during service through various means. One way is to...
Intimate relationships are an essential aspect of human life that has been shown to have profound effects on physical, mental, emotional, and social wellbeing. This is particularly true for members...
Mechanisms that Allow LGBT Personnel to Sustain Relational Satisfaction
The mechanisms that allow LGBT personnel to sustain relational satisfaction can be broken down into three main categories:...
Soldiers have been known to experience challenges when it comes to balancing their personal desires with cultural and institutional expectations around sexuality.
While some cultures may view...
How does internalized stigma affect emotional regulation and interpersonal sensitivity among sexual minority soldiers?
In order to understand how internalized stigma can affect emotional...
The question of how lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) service members manage their personal relationships in the face of an unstable environment can be quite difficult to answer, but it has...
The term "queer" is used to describe people who do not identify themselves as heterosexual, cisgender, or gender-conforming. These individuals may be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary,...
Strategies for LGBT Individuals to Reclaim Spiritual and Social Agency in Restrictive Religious Contexts
LGBT people can feel alienated from their communities and families due to societal stigma...
What is Spiritual Mentorship for LGBT Individuals Facing Discrimination?
Spiritual mentorship can be defined as guidance from an individual who helps another person develop their spiritual life...