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Participants resisted discursive power within their maps via the following tactics: (1) (re)appropriating discourses and (2) imagining new information worlds.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study captures the perspectives of an understudied population\u2013LGBTQIA+ persons from the American South\u2013about a critical topic\u2013their health\u2013and frames these perspectives and topics within an informational context. 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