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Since the 1980s, there has been a growing attention to racial, gender, and sexual diversity. However, the existing psychoanalytic literature tends to treat patients’ race, gender, and sexuality separately. In contrast, an intersectional perspective, rooted in Black feminism and relational psychoanalysis, focuses on the interplay among patients’ race, gender, and sexuality. This intersectional approach aims to expand on the cultural sensitivity of psychoanalysis. In particular, by drawing on critical race theory, feminism, and queer studies, an intersectional psychoanalysis locates individual similarities and differences in the context of racism, sexism, and homophobia and examines the interpersonal relations that maintain gender, racial, and sexual stereotypes and inequities. The clinical vignette of a queer Latino man illustrates the intersections among the patient’s race, gender, and sexual identity.