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First UK study to look at body weight and sexual orientation reveals health disparities in sexual minorities.
Bigender, gender fluid, cisgender? Emerging gender categorizations are important -- for your health.
Psychologists don't know much about why people have age-based sexual attractions – such as pedophilia – or how best to help people not act on sexual interests in children.
The current push towards AI categorisation of people is in danger of embedding a binary view of society.
Until we safeguard every child from all forms of violence, opposition to genital cutting will not be an Australian value.
Many people use religion and culture as explanations for their homophobic attitudes.
The massacre at an Orlando gay club is a savage reminder that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people still face harsh prejudice in America and lack full equal protections under the law.
Research shows that teachers either overlook bullying behaviors or even endorse them.
No one is only their sex or only their race or only their sexual orientation. Social psychologists are starting to investigate how people of multiple minority groups are perceived.
LGBTI students at South Africa's universities are living double lives to protect themselves from heterosexual students who ridicule and attack them.
Current conversion therapies can't effectively switch someone's sexual orientation. But there could be a time down the road when neuroscience can do what they can't. Where does that leave gay rights?
Sexual preferences are not set in stone and can change over time, often depending on the immediate situation the individual is in. This has been described as sexual fluidity. For example, if someone identifies…
Recent reports have suggested that Section 28-style bans on the promotion of homosexuality are on the rise in UK schools, causing concern among teachers’ unions. Based on research by the British Humanist…
Pupil dilation reveal a person’s sexual orientation. Pupils were found to widen most when study participants watched erotic…
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