Intersectional Stigma and Sexual Health Among Sexual and Gender Minority Women

Purpose of Review The purpose of the current review is to provide a summary of the recent research published on the relationships between intersectional stigma and sexual minority women's experiences of sexual health. Given the emerging stage of this body of work, we employed a narrative review to both elicit this summary as well as identify gaps in the current work. Recent Findings We found that intersectional stigma affects sexual and gender minority women's sexual health across multiple domains of health, including intersectional social determinants of health, sexual healthcare experiences and barriers to care, STI/HIV testing and prevention, cancer screening, and sexual violence. We also found that intersectional research remains the minority of sexual health research currently produced and that sexual health researchers operationalize intersectionality and intersectional research design in varied ways. Intersectionality remains a critical framework for eliciting more representative sexual health data among multiply minoritized populations among sexual and gender minority women.