Focus Area

Bae, D., Leventhal, A. M., Harlow, A. F., Han, D. H., Krueger, E. A., Barrington-Trimis, J. L., … Cho, J. (2025). Associations of Sexual Identity and Gender Identity with Substance Use and Mental Health in Young Adulthood. Substance Use & Misuse, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2025.2569792 

Closson, K., Nemutambwe, T., Osborne, Z., Lee, G. Y., Hangle, C., Thompson, S., Raj, A., & Kaida, A. (2025). Recommendations for Measuring Intimate Partner Violence and Relationship Equity Among Queer and Trans Young Women and Non-Binary Youth in British Columbia Canada. Journal of Homosexuality, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2025.2500987 

Estevez, R., Alvarez-Hernandez, L. R., Olansky, E. J., Parker, B. M., Singh, A., Bockting, W., & LeBlanc, A. (2025). Transforming through switch points: Latinx nonbinary individuals’ experiences of moving from internalized cisnormativity to liberated consciousness. Journal of Latinx Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/lat0000304 

Estevez, R., Singh, A., Delgado-Romero, E., Pace, S., Ozuna, C., Hamilton, J., Bockting, W., & LeBlanc, A. (2025). “Seeing the balance in the two worlds in which I exist”: Latinx trans and nonbinary individuals’ experiences of within-culture gender minority stress and resilience. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 72(2), 158–171. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000787 

Lozano, A., Morales, V., Weinstein, E. R., Harkness, A., Ocasio, M. A., Perrino, T., Brincks, A. M., & Prado, G. (2025). Face Validity of Measures of Sexual Orientation and Family Functioning Among Hispanic Sexual Minority Youth. Sexes, 6(2), 22. https://doi.org/10.3390/sexes6020022 

Ogarrio, K., Durbin-Matrone, R., De Leon, B., Wright, L. A., Restar, A., Singh, A. A., & Stojanovski, K. (2025). Forms of transphobia and their influence on health outcomes among transgender, nonbinary, and gender diverse individuals: a global systematic review. International Journal of Transgender Health, 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/26895269.2025.2553739 

Singh, A., Vance, T.A., Estevez, R.I., Truszczynski, N., Knott, P.D., Seth, R. (2025). Foundational Knowledge for Providing Affirmative Care to Trans and Gender Diverse Patients. In: Seth, R., Knott, P.D. (eds) Gender Affirming Surgery of the Face and Neck. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-82884-3_1 

Van Gerwen, O. T., Muzny, C. A., Turan, B., Siwakoti, K., & Batey, D. S. (2025). “Society isn’t designed for us to win”: Trauma and sexual healthcare experiences among transgender women in the Southeastern United States. Advanced Biology, 9. https://doi.org/10.1002/adbi.202400200 

Van Gerwen, O., Day, K. S., Aaron, K. J., Lindl, H., Miller, G. H., Batey, D. S., Siwakoti, K., Wall, J., Patterson, B., Turan, B., & Muzny, C. (2025). From trauma to trust: The initial psychometric evaluation of a survey instrument measuring trauma among transgender women in the US Deep South. Frontiers in Public Health, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1632285 

Vilda, D., Agénor, M., Wallace, M. E., Lian, I. B., Charlton, B. M., Reynolds, C. A., & Harville, E. W. (2025). Adverse obstetric and perinatal outcomes among birthing people in same-sex and different-sex relationships in Louisiana. LGBT Health, 12(1), 61–70. https://doi.org/10.1089/lgbt.2023.0377 

Closson, K., Boyce, S. C., Johns, N., Inwards-Breland, D. J., Edwin Elizabeth Thomas, & Raj, A. (2024). Physical, Sexual, and Intimate Partner Violence Among Transgender and Gender-Diverse Individuals. JAMA Network Open, 7(6). https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.19137 

Closson, K., Lee, G. Y., Osborne, Z., Hangle, C., Nemutambwe, T., Raj, A., Leonce, I., & Kaida, A. (2024). “Nobody has written the book about what non-binary people should put forward in relationships”: Exploring gender equity in relationships of queer, trans, and non-monogamous young women and non-binary youth in British Columbia, Canada. Social Science & Medicine, 347, 116759. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116759 

Farley, J. E., Beuchamp, G., Bergman, A. J., Hughes, J. P., Batey, D. S., del Rio, C., Raifman, J., Lowensen, K., Gamble, T., Remien, R. H., & Beyrer, C. (2024). The impact of stigma and sexual identity on PrEP awareness and use among at-risk men who have sex with men in four U.S. cities (HPTN 078). Stigma and Health, 9(3), 400–410. https://doi.org/10.1037/sah0000413 

Johnson, K. C., LeBlanc, A. J., Dolezal, C., Singh, A. A., & Bockting, W. O. (2024). Invalidation and mental health among nonbinary individuals. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 11(3), 413–424. https://doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000621 

Kerney, M. A., Singh, A., Vigil, K., Hargons, C. N., & Malone, N. (2024). Pronouns and experiences of misgendering among nonbinary Black womxn. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. https://doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000735 

Krueger, E. A., Bishop, M. D., Mallory, A. B., Srivastava, A., & Russell, S. T. (2024). Sexual identity continuity and change in a U.S. national probability sample of sexual minority adults: Associations with mental health and problematic substance use. American Journal of Psychiatry, 181(8). https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.20230458 

Lozano, A., Ocasio, M. A., Brincks, A. M., Harkness, A., Perrino, T., & Prado, G. (2024). Factor structure of the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid among Latina/o/x Adolescents. International Journal of LGBTQ+ Youth Studies, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/19361653.2024.2368528 

Ocasio, M. A., & Isabel Fernández, M. (2024). The association between gender identity fluidity and health outcomes in transgender and gender diverse people in New Orleans and Los Angeles, USA. Preventive medicine reports, 42, 102735. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2024.102735 

Ocasio, M. A., Brincks, A. M., & Fernandez, M. I. (2024). Examining the Performance of the Sexual Minority Adolescent Stress Inventory with Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth and Sexual Minority Emerging Adults: A Methodological Study. LGBT health, 11(8), 639–644. https://doi.org/10.1089/lgbt.2023.0253 

Ocasio, M. A., Fernandez, M. I., Ward, D. H. S., Lightfoot, M., Swendeman, D., & Harper, G. W. (2024). Fluidity in Reporting Gender Identity Labels in a Sample of Transgender and Gender Diverse Adolescents and Young Adults, Los Angeles, California, and New Orleans, Louisiana, 2017-2019. Public health reports, 139(4), 494–500. https://doi.org/10.1177/00333549231223922 

Cordoba, E., Garofalo, R., Kuhns, L. M., Pearson, C. R., Batey, D. S., Bruce, J., Radix, A., Belkind, U., Hidalgo, M. A., Hirshfield, S., & Schnall, R. (2023). A cross-sectional study of perceived stress and racial discrimination among a national sample of young men who have sex with men. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 34(3), 226–237. https://doi.org/10.1097/JNC.0000000000000407 

Srivastava, A., Hall, W. J., Krueger, E. A., & Goldbach, J. T. (2023). Sexual identity fluidity and depressive symptoms: Findings from a national longitudinal study of sexual minority adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health, 73(5), 873–879. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2023.06.008 

Srivastava, A., Hall, W. J., Krueger, E. A., & Goldbach, J. T. (2023). Sexual identity fluidity, identity management stress, and depression among sexual minority adolescents. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1075815. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1075815 

Gordián-Arroyo, A., Schnall, R., Garofalo, R., Kuhns, L. M., Pearson, C., Bruce, J., … Hidalgo, M. A. (2022). Homonegative Victimization and Perceived Stress among Adolescent Sexual Minority Males: The Attenuating Role of Peer and Family Support. International Journal of Sexual Health, 34(4), 691–701. https://doi.org/10.1080/19317611.2022.2124341 

Valente, P. K., Dworkin, J. D., Dolezal, C., Singh, A. A., LeBlanc, A. J., & Bockting, W. O. (2022). Prospective relationships between stigma, mental health, and resilience in a multi-city cohort of transgender and nonbinary individuals in the United States, 2016–2019. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 57, 1445–1456. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-022-02270-6 

Wilson, B. D. M., Krueger, E. A., Pollitt, A. M., & Bostwick, W. B. (2022). Partnership status and mental health in a nationally representative sample of sexual minorities. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 9(2), 190–200. https://doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000516 

Cordoba, E., Garofalo, R., Kuhns, L. M., Pearson, C., Bruce, J., Batey, D. S., Radix, A., Belkind, U., Hidalgo, M. A., Hirshfield, S., Garibay Rodriguez, R., & Schnall, R. (2021). Risk-taking behaviors in adolescent men who have sex with men (MSM): An association between homophobic victimization and alcohol consumption. PLoS ONE, 16(12), e0260083. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260083 

Krueger, E. A., Barrington-Trimis, J. L., Unger, J. B., & Leventhal, A. M. (2021). Sexual and gender minority young adult coping disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Adolescent Health, 69(5), 746–753. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2021.07.021 

Krueger, E. A., Westmoreland, D. A., Choi, S. K., Harper, G. W., Lightfoot, M., Hammack, P. L., & Meyer, I. H. (2021). Mental health among Black and Latinx sexual minority adults leading up to and following the 2016 U.S. presidential election: Results from a natural experiment. LGBT Health, 8(2), 97–105. https://doi.org/10.1089/lgbt.2020.0454 

Fish, J. N., & Krueger, E. A. (2020). Reconsidering approaches to estimating health disparities across multiple measures of sexual orientation. LGBT Health. https://doi.org/10.1089/lgbt.2019.0182 

Krueger, E. A., & Upchurch, D. M. (2020). Sexual orientation, social support, and mental health resilience in a U.S. national sample of adults. Behavioral Medicine, 48(3), 207–215. https://doi.org/10.1080/08964289.2020.1825922 

Krueger, E. A., Fish, J. N., & Upchurch, D. M. (2020). Sexual orientation disparities in substance use: Investigating social stress mechanisms in a national sample. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 58(1), 59–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2019.08.034 

Krueger, E. A., Fish, J. N., Hammack, P. L., et al. (2020). Comparing national probability and community-based samples of sexual minority adults: Implications and recommendations for sampling and measurement. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 49(5), 1463–1475. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-020-01724-9 

Rothblum, E. D., Krueger, E. A., Kittle, K. R., et al. (2020). Asexual and non-asexual respondents from a U.S. population-based study of sexual minorities. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 49(3), 757–767. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-019-01485-0 

Valente, P. K., Schrimshaw, E. W., Dolezal, C., LeBlanc, A. J., Singh, A. A., & Bockting, W. O. (2020). Stigmatization, resilience, and mental health among a diverse community sample of transgender and gender nonbinary individuals in the U.S. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 49(7), 2649-2660. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-020-01761-4 

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