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African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Le Cui
Kazakh-American University
2
Adam O. Hill
La Trobe University
3
Tobe Levin von Gleichen
Harvard University Press
4
Pablo Expósito-Campos
University of the Basque Country
5
Shamayeta Bhattacharya
Point Park University
6
Canton Winer
Northern Illinois University
7
Michael Liu
Grady Memorial Hospital
8
Rowland Chukwuemeka Amaefula
University of Graz
9
Jason L. Ferguson
University of California, Los Angeles
10
Ying-Chao Kao
Virginia Commonwealth University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Health Equity Adjustment and Hospital Performance in the Medicare Value-Based Purchasing Program
JAMA|2024
23 cit.
2
Health Care Discrimination and Care Avoidance Due to Patient-Clinician Identity Discordance Among Sexual and Gender Minority Adults
The Annals of Family Medicine|2024
23 cit.
3
Splitting Attraction: Differentiating Romantic and Sexual Orientations Among Asexual Individuals
Social Currents|2024
17 cit.
4
Queer migration, heteronormativity and the ‘ethnic closet’: Chinese queer international students' intersectional experience in New Zealand
European Journal of Education|2024
12 cit.
5
A qualitative metasummary of detransition experiences with recommendations for psychological support
International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology|2024
12 cit.
6
Institutional Heteronormativity, Hegemonic Masculinity, and Soft Resistance: Gay Academics’ Experiences in Chinese Academia
Sexuality & Culture|2025
8 cit.
7
“I Don’t Expect the University to Support Queers”: Identity Management and Ambivalence toward Institutional Support for Queer University Students in China
International Journal of Sociology|2024
7 cit.
8
Health Care beyond Clinic Walls — Sustaining and Scaling Up Street Medicine
New England Journal of Medicine|2024
6 cit.
9
‘We are celebrated but not included’: heteronormativity and cisnormativity in Aotearoa New Zealand workplaces
Kōtuitui New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online|2024
6 cit.
10
Does Everyone Have a Gender? Compulsory Gender, Gender Detachment, and Asexuality
Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World|2025
5 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Alex S. Keuroghlian
MaineHealth
2
Madeline B. Deutsch
University of California, San Francisco
3
Juno Obedin‐Maliver
Stanford Medicine
4
Lauren B. Beach
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
5
Roy Pérez‐Salazar
Universidad Nacional
6
Thomas Lewis
Cumbria Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
7
Asa Radix
New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
8
Erica Watson
University of Michigan
9
Alison L. Bain
York University
10
Emmett Harsin Drager
University of Southern California

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Access to gender-affirming hormones during adolescence and mental health outcomes among transgender adults
PLoS ONE|2022
167 cit.
2
Sex Assigned at Birth Ratio Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Adolescents in the United States
PEDIATRICS|2022
97 cit.
3
Do Ask, Tell, and Show: Contextual Factors Affecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Disclosure for Sexual and Gender Minority People
LGBT Health|2022
56 cit.
4
Sexual and gender minority content in undergraduate medical education in the United States and Canada: current state and changes since 2011
BMC Medical Education|2024
49 cit.
5
Prevalence of 12 Common Health Conditions in Sexual and Gender Minority Participants in the All of Us Research Program
JAMA Network Open|2023
47 cit.
6
Sexual and/or gender minority disparities in obstetrical and birth outcomes
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology|2022
42 cit.
7
Harvard Medical School’s Sexual and Gender Minority Health Equity Initiative: Curricular and Climate Innovations in Undergraduate Medical Education
Academic Medicine|2022
39 cit.
8
Age of Realization and Disclosure of Gender Identity Among Transgender Adults
Journal of Adolescent Health|2023
39 cit.
9
Pediatric sexual orientation and gender identity data collection in the electronic health record
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association|2022
37 cit.
10
The Importance of Non-Probability Samples in Minority Health Research: Lessons Learned from Studies of Transgender and Gender Diverse Mental Health
Transgender Health|2022
33 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Jon Arcelus
University of Nottingham
2
Michael Warner
Imperial College London
3
Ilan H. Meyer
University of California, Los Angeles
4
John P. Capitanio
University of California, Davis
5
Stephen T. Russell
Arizona State University
6
Gill Valentine
University of Sheffield
7
Elizabeth Wilson
University of Nottingham
8
Saskia E. Wieringa
University of Amsterdam
9
Stefan Baral
Johns Hopkins University
10
Robert Morrell
University of Cape Town

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Minority Stress and Mental Health in Gay Men
Journal of Health and Social Behavior|1995
4.2k cit.
2
Publics and Counterpublics
Public Culture|2002
3.7k cit.
3
Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, Version 8
International Journal of Transgender Health|2022
2.5k cit.
4
Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1994
2.5k cit.
5
Sex in Public
Critical Inquiry|1998
2k cit.
6
Living with difference: reflections on geographies of encounter
Progress in Human Geography|2008
1.2k cit.
7
Theorizing and Researching Intersectionality: A Challenge for Feminist Geography*
The Professional Geographer|2007
1.1k cit.
8
Resilience in the study of minority stress and health of sexual and gender minorities.
Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity|2015
1.1k cit.
9
Adolescent Sexual Orientation and Suicide Risk: Evidence From a National Study
American Journal of Public Health|2001
933 cit.
10
Prejudice, social stress, and mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations: Conceptual issues and research evidence.
Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity|2013
886 cit.

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