Navigating ethics in HIV data and biomaterial management within Black, African, and Caribbean communities in Canada by Rusty Souleymanov, Bolaji Akinyele-Akanbi, Chinyere Njeze, Patricia Ukoli, Paula Migliardi, Linda Larcombe, Gayle Restall, Laurie Ringaert, Michael Payne, John Kim, Wangari Tharao, Ayn Wilcox

“…A diverse sample was recruited through community agencies, social media, and flyers, with considerations for variations in age, gender, sexual orientation, and geographical location. The study employed iterative inductive thematic data analysis. …”
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Barriers facilitators and needs of female sex workers in Arak to access sexual health services a qualitative study by Iman Navidi, Elham Shakibazadeh, Firoozeh Raisi, Samaneh Akbarpour

“…Educational needs encompassed skills in negotiation and communication, understanding sexual health, positive body image and accepting sexual orientation, and preventing and managing STIs. The participants believed that peer education offers several benefits, including building credibility and trust among peers, fostering positive interactions within peer groups, enhancing support through shared experiences, improving access to educational resources and empowerment through peer education. …”
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Assessing the Experiences of Sexual and Gender Minority Applicants to Orthopaedic Surgery Residency by Douglas J. Weaver, MD, Tanios Dagher, BS, Ngoc Duong, MS, Sara Winfrey, MD, Alexander Koo, MD, Tessa Balach, MD, FAOA

“…Data were stratified by sexual orientation, and univariate analysis was conducted using chi-squared tests. …”
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Exploring parenthood intentions and perceptions of infertility and assisted reproductive technology among 2SLGBTQIA + young adults in Ontario, Canada: a mixed methods study by Caitlin I. T. Ennis, Nurasha G. Fernando, Karen P. Phillips

“…ART was acceptable in the event of future infertility, with two major themes used to describe perceived barriers to ART: (i) treatment is expensive; and (ii) I may face discrimination due to my gender identity/sexual orientation. Trans men were significantly more worried about healthcare access to have a biological child (86.7%; χ2(3):16.805 p < .001) than other genders. …”
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Preferences and access to community-based HIV testing sites among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Côte d’Ivoire by Christine Danel, Joseph Larmarange, Lazare Sika, Maxime Inghels, Arsène Kra Kouassi, Serge Niangoran, Anne Bekelynck, Séverine Carilon, Mariatou Koné, Annabel Degrées du Loû

“…Both knowing of and ever visiting an MSM-CBTS were significantly associated with a higher number of HIV tests performed in the past 12 months and having disclosed sexual orientation to one family member.In terms of preferences, 37% of respondents said they preferred undifferentiated HIV testing sites (ie, ‘all patients’ HIV testing sites), 34% preferred MSM-CBTS and 29% had no preference.Those who reported being sexually attracted to women, being bisexual and those who did not know an MSM non-governmental organisation were less likely to prefer MSM-CBTS. …”
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Implications of hormonal carcinogenesis for transgender and gender-diverse people undergoing gender-affirming hormone therapy: an up-to-date review by Matteo Lambertini, Filippo Pietrantonio, Dario Trapani, Francesco Perrone, Rossana Berardi, Saverio Cinieri, Chiara Cassani, Amelia Barcellini, Filippo Ghelardi, Alberto Giovanni Leone, Stefania Bonadonna, Marianna Sirico, Barbara Tagliaferri, Stefano Maccarone, Davide Dalu, Lorenzo Ruggieri, Simone Nardin, Nicla La Verde

“…Unfortunately, the scarcity of epidemiological data on cancer incidence in the TGD population persists due to the absence of sexual orientation and gender identity data collection in cancer centres. …”
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Immunogenicity of the 9-valent human papillomavirus vaccine: Post hoc analysis from five phase 3 studies by Anna R. Giuliano, Joel M. Palefsky, Stephen E. Goldstone, Jacob Bornstein, Ilse De Coster, Ana María Guevara, Ole Mogensen, Andrea Schilling, Pierre Van Damme, Corinne Vandermeulen, Misoo C. Ellison, Susan Kaplan, Jianxin Lin, Rachael Bonawitz, Alain Luxembourg

“…Covariates considered were age, gender, sexual orientation, region of residence, and race. GMTs among 2599 males/females aged 9–15 years (studies 002 and 010 [NCT01984697]) were assessed 6 months after one, two, and three 9vHPV vaccine doses. 9vHPV vaccine immunogenicity was robust across populations. …”
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From Closet Talk to PC Terminology : Gay Speech and the Politics of Visibility by Pascale Smorag

“…This paper examines the extraordinary complexity of sexual orientations and subcultures as expressed by “gay speech,” an idiom the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community has developed for itself. …”
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Amitiés particulières au Maghreb : sociabilités et discours homosexuels by Valérie Beaumont

“…Finally, this article reveals the means used to objectify identities and sexual orientations, particularly through migration, associations and the Internet, in a context where social and ideological currents, whether local or external, are structuring new patterns of life that lead to both openness and withdrawal back to conservative moral and religious values.…”
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Gender and Sexuality in Mathematics Education: Queer High School Students’ Experiences in the United States by Weverton Ataide Pinheiro

“…In this study, the experiences of groups historically targeted for the oppression of gender and/or sexual orientations are analyzed and discussed in the context of mathematics teaching and learning. …”
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Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership: Perceptions of the LGBTQ in Turkiye by Fatoş Gökşen, Murat Ergin

“…The fourth dimension, public morality, a vision of moral values shaping public life and political discourse, explains the particularity of the views toward non-straight sexual orientations as the specific alignment of a moral worldview with exclusionary cultural membership. …”
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Gendered Cartographies in Melissa Scott’s Science Fiction: Queering Shadow Man (1995) by Beatriz Hermida Ramos

“…In the text, Scott presents both a seemly all-inclusive place where different gender identities, sexual orientations and sex differences are recognized and accepted, as well as a second national space where the gender binary and heteronormativity are not only heavily endorsed but also seen as a prerequisite to belong and be recognized as human. …”
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The Conditions of Public Opinion Action in Soviet Lithuania by Valdemaras Klumbys

“…Personal information, like diseases, love affairs, sexual orientations, crimes, and mistakes in the past was used also. …”
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Gender-Inclusive Language in Public-Facing Labor and Delivery Web Pages in the New York Tristate Area: Cross-Sectional Study by Sarah Mohsen Isaac, Mark Dawes, Emily Ruth Howell, Antonia Francis Oladipo

“…“Fully inclusive” websites explicitly acknowledged lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual plus other gender- and sexual-oriented (LGBTQIA+) parents, “inclusive” websites did not use gendered terminology for parents, and “noninclusive” websites used gendered terms at least once in the text reviewed. …”
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KGB Struggle with Antisoviet Manifestation in Lithuania and Abroad: People's Discreditation by Kristina Burinskaitė

“…Personal information, like diseases, love affairs, sexual orientations, crimes, and mistakes in the past was used also. …”
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