Navigating healthcare infrastructures is particularly challenging for queer-identifying individuals, with significant barriers emerging around stigma and practitioner ignorance. Further intersecting, historically marginalised identities such as one’s race, age or ability exacerbate such engagement with healthcare, particularly the access to and use of reliable and appropriate health information. We explore the salience of one’s queer identity relative to other embodied identities when navigating health information and care for themselves and their communities. Thirty semi-structured interviews with queer community leaders from South Carolina inform our discussion of the role one’s queer visibility plays relational to the visibility of other identities. We find that leaders and their communities navigate these intersectional visibilities through unique and iterative approaches to health information seeking, sharing and use predicated upon anti-queer, racist, ableist and misogynistic sentiments. Findings can inform queer-inclusive, intersectionally informed interventions by health and information professionals such as non-profit advocacy organisations and medical librarians.

导航医疗保健基础设施对于识别酷儿的个人尤其具有挑战性，围绕耻辱和从业者的无知出现了重大障碍。进一步交叉的、历史上边缘化的身份，例如一个人的种族、年龄或能力，加剧了这种对医疗保健的参与，尤其是对可靠和适当的健康信息的访问和使用。在浏览健康信息和照顾自己和社区时，我们探索了一个人的酷儿身份相对于其他具体身份的显着性。对来自南卡罗来纳州的酷儿社区领袖的 30 次半结构化访谈为我们讨论一个人的酷儿可见度与其他身份的可见度之间的关系提供了信息。我们发现，领导者及其社区通过基于反酷儿、种族主义、残疾和厌恶女性情绪的独特和迭代的健康信息搜索、共享和使用方法来驾驭这些交叉可见性。调查结果可以为非盈利倡导组织和医学图书馆员等健康和信息专业人员的酷儿包容性、交叉知情干预提供信息。