What role can activism play in queer care?

This case study explores how LGBTQ+ health activism shapes access to and experiences of queer care for marginalised communities.

LGBTQ+ health activism, while a broad field, faces several specific challenges and an increasingly hostile environment. Working with community partner The Love Tank, we will undertake action research, grounded in medical sociology and participatory methods, to identify what LGBTQ+ health activism looks like today and what the challenges might be to providing community-driven queer care.

Questions we're exploring

What are the possibilities for queer care in an environment hostile to LGBTQ+ communities and what role does community activism play in shaping this care?

How, if at all, can LGBTQ+ voices be listened to and how might LGBTQ+ community expertise be recognized by those providing queer care within medicine?

People

Dr Ingrid Young

Reader, Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society

Dr Ingrid Young is a Reader in the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, based in Edinburgh Medical School. She is a sociologist with a background in medical humanities, as well as arts-led and community-engaged research practices. Her research interests include HIV, sexual and reproductive health, LGBTQ+ health, chronic illness and disability.

The Love Tank

Dr Will Nutland and The Love Tank are co-leading this case study. Dr Will Nutland is co-founder and director of The Love Tank and project co-investigator.

Dr Kylo Thomas (he/they) is a health justice researcher at The Love Tank and full-time postdoctoral researcher on Medicine without Doctors.

Dr Ben Weil will contribute to this project in his role as head of research and community knowledge generation at the Love Tank.