Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) concerns continue to be underrepresented in the counseling literature, although progress was made in the 1990s in the content and quantity of literature dealing with these issues. Despite progress in several areas, the scholarship on specific marginalized groups within the LGB community is particularly sparse:LGB people of color, bisexual women and men, lesbian women, LGB people with disabilities, and transgendered individuals. In this reaction, the author raises some questions about these absences and suggests alternative paradigms and research approaches that may help to address the complexities and fill in the gaps in the coming decade.
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