Recent and Anticipated Actions to Reverse Trump Administration Section 1557 Non-Discrimination Rules – Kaiser...
The Biden Administration has started taking steps to reverse Trump Administration policy and regulations that significantly narrowed the implementation and administrative enforcement of Section 1557, the Affordable Care Act’s nondiscrimination provision,...
Pride Month 2021: Alabama’s LGBTQ community in vintage photos – AL.com
In his apartment in Birmingham’s Highland Avenue, Joe Hulse wrote poems in his diary about men he fondly remembered. Gordie. Alf. Duke.“If you were not away, these hills we know and...
Stony Brook Medicine launches survey to learn about LBGTQ healthcare needs – RiverheadLOCAL
Stony Brook Medicine has launched a survey to collect data on the healthcare needs of the LGBTQ community on Long Island to better inform their practice.
The survey is the first of...
Pride 2021: Progress in the war on HIV/AIDS in NYC – Spectrum News NY1
For nearly 50 years, Callen-Lorde Community Health Center in Chelsea has been a not-for-profit clinic providing quality health care to all, regardless of ability to pay, with an emphasis on LGBTQ...
Mayo Clinic Minute: Coming out as LGBTQ to your health care provider – Tyler...
LGBTQ Pride Month is celebrated each June to commemorate the impact that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or gender nonconforming people have had, and continue to have, on society. While...
University Health Services Celebrates Pride Month – Creating Community – UW–Madison – University of...
University Health Services honors Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ+) Pride Month along with the many contributions and achievements of the LGBTQ+ community at UW–Madison. Pride Month is celebrated in...
Advancing LGBTQ+-Inclusive Care: How Pharmacists Can Better Support Patients – Drug Topics
“Historically, the barriers to care for LGBTQ+ individuals are complex and encompass many determinants,” said Tam Phan, PharmD, AAHIVP, assistant professor of clinical pharmacy and clinical pharmacist at the Jeffrey Goodman...
‘Ex gays’ hold rally on Washington Monument grounds – Washington Blade
Squashed between friends on a plush couch at a shelter for homeless LGBTQ+ young people, Jada Doll talked about what happened after she began to express her identity as a transgender...
LGBT Veteran care evolves, continues to improve – VAntage Point – VAntage Point Blog
This is part two in a two-part series about VA care for Veterans with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) and Related Identities. To see part one, visit https://blogs.va.gov/VAntage/89324/lgbt-veterans-describe-va-care-provide-advice-others/.
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Guest Opinion: How the VA has illegally denied health care to thousands of veterans...
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 decides...
A U.N. Declaration on Ending AIDS Should Have Been Easy. It Wasn’t. – The...
On Tuesday, the United Nations is expected to adopt new targets for ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030, seemingly a goal most countries could easily have agreed to....
We need to celebrate LGBTQ joy this Pride Month. Lives depend on it. –...
Imagine your high school baseball team banning you from playing. Your local DMV barring you from changing the name on your driver's license. Your neighbors darting their eyes away from you in public.The transgender community faces...
I’m A Black, Gay Physician. I’m Here Today Because My Friends Saw Me —...
On my phone's lock screen is a photo I draw strength from daily. On the steps of the pantheonic building where I attended college and graduate school, I stand with over a dozen close friends....
Queer-Friendly Extracurriculars May Help Foster LGBTQ Youth Health – 5280 | The Denver Magazine
Photo courtesy of Getty Images Celebrating Denver Pride: Community, Resilience, and ChangeHow do you fix higher rates of substance abuse and mental health issues among queer young people? The Youth...
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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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...