Harry Barbee
Biographic Data
| ID | 252125 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harry Barbee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harry |
| FAMILY NAME | Barbee |
| SIGNATURE | BARBEE H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5000-0442 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Structural stigma in public discourse
Variation in Subjective Cognitive Decline Among Older Adults in the US South based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Older LGBTQ adults face elevated risk for subjective cognitive decline (SCD), yet variation by sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) remains underexplored. Guided by minority stress theory, we analyzed Wave 1 data from the LGBTQ Social Networks, Aging, and Policy Study (QSNAPS), a nonprobability panel of 1,255 LGBTQ adults aged 50–76 years in four Southern states. SCD was assessed using a 15-item index capturing any, mild, and severe cogn…
Forced to adapt
TGD individuals face healthcare trade-offs due to systemic barriers. • Trade-offs include sacrificing geographic convenience, preferred care, affordability, and high-quality care pathways. • Structural constraints, not individual choices, drive healthcare trade-offs among TDG patients. • Findings call for policy reforms in insurance, training, and telehealth access. • Study reframes trade-offs as outcomes of structural neglect, not resilience
Minority stress, community involvement, and cognitive decline in rural SGM older adults
Sexual and gender minority (SGM) older adults in rural areas face elevated cognitive health risks shaped by structural stigma, yet the pathways underlying these inequities are poorly understood. This study investigated how lifetime rural exposure, minority stress exposure, and community involvement influenced cognitive outcomes among SGM older adults in the U.S. South. Using data from a three-wave longitudinal panel of 1259 participants, we appli…
A Harm Reduction Response to Bans on Gender-Affirming Care
This Viewpoint discusses the unsafe health environment that bans on gender-affirming care creates and the importance of harm reduction, especially alongside policy change
Beyond Prevention
Health Disparities Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Older Adults
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) older adults experience significant health disparities. Examining these disparities has become an international research priority, but gaps remain. In this review article, we summarize major contributions of and ongoing gaps in health disparities research among LGBTQ+ older adults, while focusing on four major content areas: (a) social determinants of health disparities, (b) mental, cognitiv…
Do supportive work environments matter for minority aging? Work stress and subjective cognitive impairment among middle-age and older lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer adults
Research has documented how people's experiences at work affect their cognitive health outcomes, but how these processes unfold for minority groups, particularly lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) populations, is unclear. This study builds on the nascent literature by employing generalized structural equation models to test how experiencing major problems at work and working with LGBTQ+ supportive coworkers affect subjective …
Transgender Youths and Sanctuaries for Gender-Affirming Care
This Viewpoint suggests ways state and local governments can support transgender youths seeking gender-affirming care amid continued passage of antitransgender legislation
Harnessing progress
Un/gendering Social Selves
Based on in‐depth interviews, we explore how people who do not identify exclusively or consistently as either women or men (i.e., nonbinary people) navigate a culture that bifurcates people into women or men. Using an interactionist approach, we first analyze how interviewees employ discourse (e.g., names, identity labels, and pronouns) and the body (e.g., expressions, decoration, and transformation) to present themselves as nonbinary, which we c…
Selling slumber
Sleeplessness is an ancient and cross‐cultural phenomenon that is socially structured and restructured against a backdrop of ideology and inequality. In an effort to make sense of sleeplessness, some scholars have invoked the medicalization framework, which highlights consumerism, managed care, biotechnology, and physicians as key “engines” that foster the transformation of this formerly “normal” condition to one that people view as a medical pro…
This Incredible Monster Was Always in the Way”
This article elaborates a symbolic interactionist approach to the scientific study of sexual sin. We draw on archival materials from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), and explore recurring themes within the archival materials that signify and outline stages of a sexual sinners’ moral career. Our findings demonstrate how LDS leaders constructed a sinner’s moral career as characterized by (1) seeking out sinful temptation; (2) …
Exploring the Experiences of Heterosexual and Asexual Transgender People
This article explores two cases at the intersection of emerging studies of transgender experience: heterosexualities and asexualities. Drawing on data from a mixed-methodological survey, we analyze the ways 57 asexual transgender people and 42 heterosexual transgender people occupying varied gender, race, class, age, and religious identities (1) make sense of gender and (2) experience coming out as transgender. Our analyses reveal some ways cisno…
Un/gendering Social Selves
Based on in‐depth interviews, we explore how people who do not identify exclusively or consistently as either women or men (i.e., nonbinary people) navigate a culture that bifurcates people into women or men. Using an interactionist approach, we first analyze how interviewees employ discourse (e.g., names, identity labels, and pronouns) and the body (e.g., expressions, decoration, and transformation) to present themselves as nonbinary, which we c…
Selling slumber
Sleeplessness is an ancient and cross‐cultural phenomenon that is socially structured and restructured against a backdrop of ideology and inequality. In an effort to make sense of sleeplessness, some scholars have invoked the medicalization framework, which highlights consumerism, managed care, biotechnology, and physicians as key “engines” that foster the transformation of this formerly “normal” condition to one that people view as a medical pro…
Exploring the Experiences of Heterosexual and Asexual Transgender People
This article explores two cases at the intersection of emerging studies of transgender experience: heterosexualities and asexualities. Drawing on data from a mixed-methodological survey, we analyze the ways 57 asexual transgender people and 42 heterosexual transgender people occupying varied gender, race, class, age, and religious identities (1) make sense of gender and (2) experience coming out as transgender. Our analyses reveal some ways cisno…
Harnessing progress
This Incredible Monster Was Always in the Way”
This article elaborates a symbolic interactionist approach to the scientific study of sexual sin. We draw on archival materials from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), and explore recurring themes within the archival materials that signify and outline stages of a sexual sinners’ moral career. Our findings demonstrate how LDS leaders constructed a sinner’s moral career as characterized by (1) seeking out sinful temptation; (2) …
Selling slumber
Sleeplessness is an ancient and cross‐cultural phenomenon that is socially structured and restructured against a backdrop of ideology and inequality. In an effort to make sense of sleeplessness, some scholars have invoked the medicalization framework, which highlights consumerism, managed care, biotechnology, and physicians as key “engines” that foster the transformation of this formerly “normal” condition to one that people view as a medical pro…
This Incredible Monster Was Always in the Way”
This article elaborates a symbolic interactionist approach to the scientific study of sexual sin. We draw on archival materials from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), and explore recurring themes within the archival materials that signify and outline stages of a sexual sinners’ moral career. Our findings demonstrate how LDS leaders constructed a sinner’s moral career as characterized by (1) seeking out sinful temptation; (2) …
Exploring the Experiences of Heterosexual and Asexual Transgender People
This article explores two cases at the intersection of emerging studies of transgender experience: heterosexualities and asexualities. Drawing on data from a mixed-methodological survey, we analyze the ways 57 asexual transgender people and 42 heterosexual transgender people occupying varied gender, race, class, age, and religious identities (1) make sense of gender and (2) experience coming out as transgender. Our analyses reveal some ways cisno…
Un/gendering Social Selves
Based on in‐depth interviews, we explore how people who do not identify exclusively or consistently as either women or men (i.e., nonbinary people) navigate a culture that bifurcates people into women or men. Using an interactionist approach, we first analyze how interviewees employ discourse (e.g., names, identity labels, and pronouns) and the body (e.g., expressions, decoration, and transformation) to present themselves as nonbinary, which we c…
Harnessing progress
Do supportive work environments matter for minority aging? Work stress and subjective cognitive impairment among middle-age and older lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer adults
Research has documented how people's experiences at work affect their cognitive health outcomes, but how these processes unfold for minority groups, particularly lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) populations, is unclear. This study builds on the nascent literature by employing generalized structural equation models to test how experiencing major problems at work and working with LGBTQ+ supportive coworkers affect subjective …
Transgender Youths and Sanctuaries for Gender-Affirming Care
This Viewpoint suggests ways state and local governments can support transgender youths seeking gender-affirming care amid continued passage of antitransgender legislation
Health Disparities Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Older Adults
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) older adults experience significant health disparities. Examining these disparities has become an international research priority, but gaps remain. In this review article, we summarize major contributions of and ongoing gaps in health disparities research among LGBTQ+ older adults, while focusing on four major content areas: (a) social determinants of health disparities, (b) mental, cognitiv…
A Harm Reduction Response to Bans on Gender-Affirming Care
This Viewpoint discusses the unsafe health environment that bans on gender-affirming care creates and the importance of harm reduction, especially alongside policy change
Beyond Prevention
Structural stigma in public discourse
Variation in Subjective Cognitive Decline Among Older Adults in the US South based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Older LGBTQ adults face elevated risk for subjective cognitive decline (SCD), yet variation by sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) remains underexplored. Guided by minority stress theory, we analyzed Wave 1 data from the LGBTQ Social Networks, Aging, and Policy Study (QSNAPS), a nonprobability panel of 1,255 LGBTQ adults aged 50–76 years in four Southern states. SCD was assessed using a 15-item index capturing any, mild, and severe cogn…
Forced to adapt
TGD individuals face healthcare trade-offs due to systemic barriers. • Trade-offs include sacrificing geographic convenience, preferred care, affordability, and high-quality care pathways. • Structural constraints, not individual choices, drive healthcare trade-offs among TDG patients. • Findings call for policy reforms in insurance, training, and telehealth access. • Study reframes trade-offs as outcomes of structural neglect, not resilience
Minority stress, community involvement, and cognitive decline in rural SGM older adults
Sexual and gender minority (SGM) older adults in rural areas face elevated cognitive health risks shaped by structural stigma, yet the pathways underlying these inequities are poorly understood. This study investigated how lifetime rural exposure, minority stress exposure, and community involvement influenced cognitive outcomes among SGM older adults in the U.S. South. Using data from a three-wave longitudinal panel of 1259 participants, we appli…
LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Transgender (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (4 works)