Research in various populations has shown that, starting early in childhood, individuals often demonstrate resilience in the face of stress and adversity. Against the experience of minority stress, LGBT people mount coping responses and most survive and even thrive despite stress. But research on resilience in LGBT populations has lagged. In this commentary, I address 2 broad issues that I have found wanting of special exploration in LGBT research on resilience: First, I note that resilience, like coping, is inherently related to minority stress in that it is an element of the stress model. Understanding resilience as a partner in the stress to illness causal chain is essential for LGBT health research. Second, I explore individual- versus community-based resilience in the context of minority stress. Although individual and community resilience should be seen as part of a continuum of resilience, it is important to recognize the significance of community resilience in the context of minority stress.

In response to the experience of stress, LGBT people mount coping responses and most survive and even thrive despite stress. Resilience research has shown in various populations that, starting early in childhood, individuals mount significant, sometimes heroic, coping efforts in the face of stress and adversity. But research on resilience and, more generally, salutogenic, or health inducing processes in LGBT populations has lagged (Kwon, 2013). The present issue of Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity aims to fill this gap in the literature by offering a group of articles on various aspects of resilience in sexual and gender minority populations. But more than filling a gap, which any one issue can only begin to do, I hope that this special issue encourages researchers to incorporate resilience into their study of LGBT health.

In this commentary, I aim to briefly address two broad issues that, in my reading of the literature, I have found wanting of special exploration: First, I explore how resilience is related to minority stress: Is resilience antithetical to a stress focus? How is resilience different from coping? And, what is the role of resilience in the stress-to-illness causal chain? Second, I explore resilience in view...