About the Editors Lee Beckstead (he/him), PhD, is a psychologist in private practice in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is White-Peruvian, gay, cisgender, currently nondisabled, and spiritual with a Latter-day Saints upbringing. Jacks Cheng, PhD, EdM, [tā [他他], he, they] is a licensed psychologist in public service in New York City. Tā is a queer migrant of Taiwanese heritage to Canada and the U.S. Dr. Sulaimon Giwa (he/him/his) is an associate professor and interim dean of social work at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada. Sulaimon is a scholar-activist who self-identifies as Black, Muslim, and gay. Mark Yarhouse, PsyD, is the Dr. Arthur P. Rech and Mrs. Jean May Rech Professor of Psychology at Wheaton College, where he directs the Sexual & Gender Identity Institute. Iva Žegura (she, her) clin. psych., mag. psych. is a pioneer in establishing LGBTAIQ+ affirmative and sensitive practices in Croatia and the Balkans, and also the first open LGBTAIQ+ clinical psychologist in Croatia. She is an associate collaborator of the Department of Psychology at the University of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb and Rijeka, an associate professor of the Department of Psychology University of Split, Graduate Study in Nursing at Medical Scholl University of Zagreb, IGW Zagreb, Bernays. Currently, she holds the position of EPATH president-elect. She is a white, European cisgender woman. Contributors R.A., Lee Beckstead, Jenna Brownfield, Pichit Buspavanich, Nate Cannon, Marty A. Cooper, Edward (Ward) B. Davis, Janet B. Dean, Jeannie DiClementi, Weston V. Donaldson, Samuel Eshleman Latimer, Alejandro Gepp Torres, Sulaimon Giwa, Debra Harley, Heather Hoffmann, Helen Harris, Tekulvē Jackson-Vann, Jeanna Jacobsen, Tyler Lefevor, S.N.M., Candice Metzler, Elizabeth Morgan, Matthew Nielson, Annelise Parkes Murphy, Jeff Paulez, Eduardo Peres, Kristina Pham, Neo Samas, Katina Sawyer, Zabir D. Shaekhov, Steve Stratton, Dr. Alex Toft, Lauren Wadsworth
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