Dear Colleagues,

Understanding the social and psychological factors accounting for LGBTQ people’s health and well-being in contexts characterized by social inequalities is an area of research that has been expanding greatly in recent years. Despite the amount of studies produced, some areas of research need more investigation. For example, the relationship between some components of minority stress and inequalities in health and well-being as well as the role played by social safety or structural-level stigma influencing LGBTQ people’s health and well-being should be better considered. It might also be relevant to confirm whether stigma, discrimination, and/or violence affect, not only health and well-being, but also LGBTQ people's vulnerability to experiencing continued episodes of violence at different times in their lives. Furthermore, the intersection of different factors involved in the emergence of inequalities for LGBTQ people need more investigation as well.

This special issue aims to collect recent empirical studies, reviews, meta-analyses or meta-syntheses, exploring LGBTQ people’s health, well-being and/or inequalities. The special issue intends also to built a reflection on these themes in the perspective of changing social and policy contexts. The Special Issue is open to papers from a variety of psychological and social sciences perspectives. We welcome original studies using quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods.

Dr. Silvia Di Battista and Prof. Daniele Paolini

Guest Editors