Who's missing? Awareness of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people with intellectual disability

Sexuality and Disability

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 175-180

  Noonan, A ^a   Gomez, M Taylor ^b  

^a Queensland Association for Healthy Communities   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Bisexual; Gay; Intellectual disability; Intergender; Lesbian; LGBT; Queer; Sexuality; Transgender

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; BISEXUALITY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABLED PERSON; GENDER IDENTITY; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOPHOBIA; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTIMACY; LESBIAN; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRIVACY; REVIEW; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SUPPORT GROUP; TRAINING; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 79960240745     PISSN: 01461044     EISSN: 15736717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11195-010-9175-3     Document Type: Review

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