"Population-specific hotlines increase help-seeking by providing culturally sensitive care. LGBTQ+ individuals continue to face pervasive and dangerous threats to health and wellbeing. The 988 “Press 3” option, established to support LGBTQ+ youth in crisis, has been discontinued. Providers, researchers, and advocates must continue to show up in meaningful ways for LGBTQ+ youth in crisis."
"In the United States, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) history is a tangled web of civil rights battles, mental health challenges, and political warfare. Psychoanalysts and other early- and mid-20th-century students of the mind considered queerness a disease or something to be fixed. Homosexuality was classified as an illness in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) until 1973."
"Less frequently discussed is that language pathologizing queerness remained explicit (e.g., “ego dystonic homosexuality” or “marked distress about one’s sexual orientation”) until the publication of the DSM-5 in 2013 (McHenry, 2022), and the pathologization of queer identities has still not disappeared entirely, with gender dysphoria remaining a diagnosable condition to this day."
"Nevertheless, resiliency flourished in the LGBTQ+ community, with the creation of organizations like PFLAG (originally Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), the Human Rights Campaign, and the Trevor Project. These organizations recognized the need for community support and resources to address the physical, mental, and social challenges that queer individuals,"
Population-specific hotlines can increase help-seeking by offering culturally sensitive care. LGBTQ+ individuals continue to face pervasive and dangerous threats to health and wellbeing, shaped by long histories of stigma and policy harm. Queerness has been pathologized in mental health systems for decades, including classifications that treated homosexuality as an illness and later language that still framed distress about sexual orientation as a disorder. Despite these pressures, LGBTQ+ communities built resilience through organizations that provided community support and resources. The 988 “Press 3” option was created to support LGBTQ+ youth in crisis, but it has been discontinued. Providers, researchers, and advocates must continue showing up in meaningful ways for LGBTQ+ youth in crisis.
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