Picture Coutesy- Q Graphy Mental Health is essential for everyone- however, the present social structures and institutions make certain sections of the society, like the queer community, more vulnerable to mental health problems. The kind of marginalization and stigmatization that the society subjects the LGBTQ+ community exposes them to conditions that inflict mental stress and trauma. Th e discussions surrounding the queer community have been fraught with misunderstandings, particularly regarding their mental health. Nathaniel M. Lewis in his article- “Mental health in sexual minorities: Recent indicators, trends, and their relationships to place in North America and Europe” mentions, This gap may be attributable to the fraught past relationship between the psychiatry community and sexual minorities, characterized by the pathologizing and subsequent depathologizing of homosexuality, studies in mostly medicalized settings, and the (mis)application of v