Raising Pride Flag is ‘just the beginning’ in addressing LGBTQ+ healthcare disparities in West...
WYOMING, MI – Displaying a Pride Flag, collecting data and holding a mammography clinic are some of the efforts confronting gaps in healthcare for the LGBTQ+ population in West Michigan.Unfair treatment,...
Spectrum Health to offer breast cancer screenings June 12 with emphasis on LGBTQ community...
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Spectrum Health’s Betty Ford Breast Care Services will be hosting a mobile mammography clinic at Baxter Community Center on Saturday, June 12. The clinic will include staff...
Exclusive: Grindr expands LGBTQ health care access for employees – Axios
Grindr is adding a new benefit for its LGBTQ+ employees through the concierge service Included Health, Axios has learned.Why it matters: One of the disproportionate health care challenges faced by LGBTQ+...
Bridging the LGBTQI Gap in Care: Why Psychiatrists Need To Do More To Treat...
In 1970, a group of gay and lesbian activists made history when they disrupted the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in San Francisco. Outside the convention center, they...
Indian court calls for sweeping reforms to respect LGBT rights – Reuters India
A participant waves a flag during Queer Azadi Pride, an event promoting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights, in Mumbai, India, February 1, 2020. REUTERS/Francis MascarenhasA court in India ordered state...
Supporting the LGBTQ+ patient – Contemporary Pediatrics
Sexual minority and gender-diverse (SMGD) youth experience significant health and psychosocial disparities compared with their heterosexual and cisgender peers. Risk for poor health and social outcomes is incrementally higher among SMGD...
Tel Aviv Pride march to return June 25 – FRANCE 24
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Jerusalem (AFP) Tel Aviv's annual Pride...
LGBTQ small businesses confident about post-pandemic future but don’t have succession plans in place...
MoMo Productions | Stone | Getty ImagesLGBTQ small business owners are confident about their post-pandemic recovery, but more than 78% don't have a succession plan in place, according to a new...
‘Celebrating the beautiful spectrum of your souls’: Hundreds march for pride in Salt Lake...
SALT LAKE CITY — The state Capitol transformed into a sea of rainbow on Sunday as hundreds gathered to march, celebrate and commemorate Pride Month.The event — organized by the Utah...
Opinion: The VA has illegally denied health care to thousands of veterans – The...
An estimated 400,000 former service members are at risk of wrongly being denied VA health care and other benefits, according to a 2020 study by OutVets, a group of LGBTQ+...
My path to freedom: a gay Catholic man’s story – The Catholic Weekly
Reading Time: 5 minutesSteven (name changed to protect identity) felt ashamed and isolated by his same-sex attraction. Then he discovered the Catholic faith. Photo: 123RF
I’m 19-years old and first realised...
Dana Montalto: VA must stop denying health care to thousands of veterans – TribLIVE
A veteran with a fever and hacking cough that suggest a possible coronavirus infection tries to make a doctor’s appointment, only to be turned away by a receptionist who personally ...
More LGBT judges on Colorado appeals court than initially thought – Colorado Newsline
BRIEFA photo of the Colorado Supreme Court on July 2, 2020. (Quentin Young/Colorado Newsline) When Gov. Jared Polis announced the appointment of W. Eric Kuhn to the Colorado Court of Appeals,...
Forty years after first documented AIDS cases, survivors reckon with ‘dichotomy of feelings’ –...
For Eric Sawyer, the 40th anniversary of the first scientific report that described AIDS as a new disease brings up “a dichotomy of feelings.”When Sawyer, who was living in New York,...
It’s been 40 years since the first cases of AIDS. A local archive shows...
Editor's Note: This story by Patti Singer was originally published in 2016. We republish it to acknowledge the 40th anniversary of the first cases that would be linked to HIV/AIDS in a...
HIV at 40: Amazing Advances but Challenges Remain – POZ
On June 5, 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Report (MMWR) published the first report of AIDS, describing five cases of unusual Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) among...
LGBTQ bills advance in California Legislature – Bay Area Reporter, America’s highest circulation LGBT...
While two bills regarding health care for transgender and intersex individuals were tabled this year in light of limited support, a bevy of LGBTQ legislation is advancing in the California Legislature....
Survivors of the Denver AIDS Epidemic Reflect on Its Impact – 5280 | The...
Activists with GMHC, a New York-based organization working to end the AIDS epidemic. Courtesy of GMHC HealthIn honor of HIV Long-Term Survivor Awareness Day, five survivors of the Denver AIDS...
Marysville to host first Pride Fest Saturday to support local LGBTQ community – The...
Back in April, 14-year-old Kloe Spain, who is non-binary, was playing with a few friends at Eljer Park in Marysville when a group of teenage girls approached them and began spewing anti-gay...
Photos show Tom Hanks in a movie, not after a health diagnosis – PolitiFact
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What You Need to Know About IUD Strings and Sex, According to an Ob-Gyn...
If you just got an IUD for the first time, you might be wondering if the device can be felt at all during sex. To answer that question, we spoke to...
Thousands of veterans are being denied the health care they are entitled to –...
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Naomi Osaka, mental health awareness, Memorial Day and other top columns – USA TODAY
In today's fast-paced news environment, it can be hard to keep up. For your weekend reading, we've started in-case-you-missed-it compilations of some of the week's top USA TODAY Opinion pieces. As always, thanks for reading,...
A Q&A With HIV/AIDS Pioneer Dr Michael Gottlieb – AJMC.com Managed Markets Network
In June of 1981, Michael Gottlieb, MD, was an assistant professor of medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine, when he and a team from the school, along with investigators from...
A Q&A With HIV/AIDS Pioneer Dr Michael Gottlieb – AJMC.com Managed Markets Network –...
In June of 1981, Michael Gottlieb, MD, was an assistant professor of medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine, when he and a team from the school, along with investigators from...
Illinois data highlights need for diversity, ‘difficult conversations’ in mental health – The State...
Editor’s note: This story is the third of three this week exploring mental health and highlighting some of the local efforts taking place to improve the community’s overall mental wellness.There was a point...
LGBT activists slam DeSantis veto of funds for Pulse survivors before 5-year anniversary: ‘It’s...
Joél Morales, the Center Orlando’s director of operations, said that earlier this year, the center took over a counseling services program offered to Pulse survivors and the families of those killed....
Catholic bishops oppose Chilean president’s move to legalize gay marriage – Crux Now
ROME – Chile’s president surprised friends and foes on Wednesday, when during his last remarks to Congress before his coalition government ends in March 2022, he asked legislators to treat with...
Are LGBT high school students more likely to use illicit substances? – FIU News
It’s not easy being a teenager. Teens have to cope with the often chaotic onset of physical, psychological and emotional changes. For teens in high school, there’s the added pressure to...
VUSD administrator tells Olympian that school board ‘draws the line’ at advocating for LGBT...
Two-time Olympian Brooke Crain was set to speak to Visalia Unified students about suicide prevention and healthy lifestyle choices — at least that's what she thought.But when a Visalia administrator censored what she could...
Where health care stands at the Virginia primaries – State of Reform – State...
Nicole Pasia | Jun 3, 2021 Share this: As Virginia gears up for its primary elections on June 8, several candidates have health care reform lined up in their...
Gay West retires from the Chilton Extension Office – The Clanton Advertiser – Clanton...
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After 30 years of service at the Chilton County Extension Office, Gay West officially retired on June 1.
West has served a total of 38 years in Extension, and...
Fauci recalls the terrifying early days of the AIDS epidemic – National Geographic
The rush hour traffic was tightening up, but Anthony Fauci, making the short commute from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to his home in Northwest Washington, D.C., wasn’t thinking about...
Savannah medical practice helping LGBTQ community – WTOC
“We see a wide range of clients, most of it from the Savannah area but we have people as far away as South Carolina, Florida, and even Alabama who come to...
USF supports the LGBTQ+ community with programs and services – University of South Florida
USF hosts several year-long programs and services to nurture the LGBTQ+ community. Many of the programs are centered around education to help create cultural awareness. The goal is to encourage an...