Title: Sexuality and the Intersection of Disability and LGBTQ+ Identities

Authors: Julie Lynn Williams, PsyD and Virginia Ogletree, PsyD

Description: The community of people with disabilities who identify as LGBTQ+ is largely invisible. In fact, Williams, and Ogletree (2023) describe this population as ´Erased and absent from professional literature’ (p.259). A continuing education (CE) addressing sexuality and disability in and of itself is essential to counselors. This Continuing Professional Development resource is based on Chapter 16 from the Handbook for Human Sexuality Counseling: A Sex Positive Approach (ACA, 2023) and was authored from the voice of a dwarf, queer, hard-of-hearing, White and cisgender (Julie Lynn Williams) and of a nondisabled, lesbian, White and cisgender woman from a low socio-economic status background (Virginia Ogletree). This CE provides counselors with a rationale to: (1) understand sexuality and disability at the intersection of persons with disabilities and LGBTQ+ identities, (2) know how to support clients to embrace their disability and LGBTQ+ identities, (3) describe sex surrogacy as a healing and valid intervention for persons with disabilities who are LGBTQ+.