TEXT: “…An examination of the health status of LGBT people in the context of racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and geographic diversity will provide a more complete understanding” (p. 7)

INDEX: “Intersectionality: A theory used to analyze how social and cultural categories intertwine” (Knudsen, 2006 as cited in IOM, 2011, p. 318)

Focusing primarily on social identities/positions “runs the risk of continuing to reinforce the intractability of inequity, albeit in a more detailed or nuanced way” (Bauer, 2015, p. 12) Greta Bauer, Ph.D., MPH,

Professor, Epidemiology & BiostatisticsWestern University , London, ON

Sumi ChoProfessor of Law, DePaul University

Kimberlé CrenshawProfessor of Law, UCLA & Columbia

Leslie McCallProfessor of Sociology & Political Science, Northwestern

Intracategorical (Within & Between) Intercategorical (Between Groups)