Research, practice, and advocacy in the movement to end gender and sexual minority violence: No room for complacency

As the preceding chapters detail, violence against LGBTQ+ individuals is a serious and critical issue that must be addressed at all levels-individual, community, and policy. The pervasive marginalization and victimization of LGBTQ+ people span nations, cultures, race, ages, genders, gender identities, sexual orientations, and a myriad of other communities and demographic variables. It is a deep and far-reaching issue with complex cultural, religious, medical, and social and historical roots, and yet its consequences are often profoundly personal, harmful, and even deadly. This final chapter details several considerations in the theory, study, and practice of understanding, treating, and ultimately ending violence against LGBTQ+ people as well as some strategies for continuing to advance this difficult but critical mission.