New course aims to improve care for the LGBTQ+ community – Scope – Scope
Researchers at Stanford Medicine launched a new online course that aims to address a gap in medical education when it comes to LGBTQ+ health, which has historically focused on HIV and...
Trans Kids Have Long Sought Health Care | Pittwire | University of Pittsburgh –...
This article was written by associate professor of English and gender, sexuality, and women's studies Jules Gill-Peterson for The Conversation. Faculty members and researchers who want to learn more about publishing in The...
A Proclamation on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Pride Month, 2021 – The...
The uprising at the Stonewall Inn in June, 1969, sparked a liberation movement — a call to action that continues to inspire us to live up to our Nation’s promise of...
LGBT Veterans describe VA care, provide advice for others – VAntage Point – VAntage...
This is part one in a two-part series about VA care for Veterans with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) and Related Identities. Part two will run June 8, 2021.
Navy Veteran...
FACT SHEET: The Biden-Harris Administration Champions LGBTQ+ Equality and Marks Pride Month – Whitehouse.gov
Today, President Biden issued a proclamation affirming June 2021 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) Pride Month, marking a time a time of hope, progress, and promise for LGBTQ+...
Iowa’s LGBT groups balance community and COVID for Pride month plans – Iowa Capital...
Cedar Rapids celebrates Pride month in 2019. (Photo courtesy of Corey Jacobson) Ginger Snaps must wait a few more months before she dons her wig, tights, and “rhinestones and rhinestones and...
Companies healthcare benefits offerings are failing LGBTQ employees – Employee Benefit News
For most, scheduling and attending a doctor’s appointment is nothing short of a chore — easy, if not boring. But for thousands of queer Americans, something as seemingly painless as a...
How a Supreme Court decision last year is reshaping the legal battle over LGBTQ...
WASHINGTON – A year after the Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision barring workplace discrimination against LGBTQ employees, gay rights advocates continue to benefit from the aftershocks as they simultaneously brace for a...
What the Public Thinks About Major Supreme Court Cases This Term – The New...
The arrival this term of Justice Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald J. Trump's third appointee, has transformed a Supreme Court with a slight conservative...
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Today, President Biden issued a proclamation affirming June 2021 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) Pride Month, marking a time a time of hope, progress, and promise for LGBTQ+...
Tracking the Major Supreme Court Decisions This Term – The New York Times
The arrival this term of Justice Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald J. Trump's third appointee, has transformed a Supreme Court with a slight conservative...
ABC7 Chicago Honors Pride Month | Resources and information – WLS-TV
June's Pride Month is a time to honor and celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and their allies. ABC7 Eyewitness News will have a series of reports on the LGBTQ+ community throughout...
Here are the events planned for Pride Month in Sacramento – KCRA Sacramento
Although the Sacramento Pride March and Festival will not take place in its traditional format this year, there are several events planned this month to celebrate the city's LGBTQ community."The...
Water Cooler: Pride month reads include ‘Maurice’ and ‘The Color Purple’ – The Spokesman-Review
June 1 is the first day of Pride month, a commemoration of visibility, affirmation and equality for the LGBTQ+ community. Pride takes place during June as a way to remember the...
YouTube icon Dan Howell explains how coming out as gay transformed his mental health...
Daniel Howell. (YouTube) YouTube star Dan Howell has described how coming out as gay transformed his mental health after his “toxic masculine” upbringing.
Howell, a comedian and one of world’s most popular...
The Surprising Honolulu Origins of the National Fight Over Same-Sex Marriage – POLITICO
After explaining his plan, Woods led his six charges down Beretania Street to the health department. There were registered license agents scattered across Hawaii, including government officials and even employees of...
Op-Ed: How the VA has illegally denied healthcare to thousands of veterans – Los...
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...
To beat HIV, the stigma must end in Black communities as well as LGBT...
PrEP is a pill taken by those who are HIV-negative to stop the virus from taking hold in the body if it enters their system (Picture: Getty Images)I was born...
Water Cooler: Pride month reads – The Spokesman-Review
Today is the first day of Pride month, a commemoration of visibility, affirmation and equality for the LGBTQ community. Pride takes place during June as a way to remember the Stonewall...
How common are mental health conditions among bisexual people? – Medical News Today
Mental health conditions are prevalent in the bisexual population. This is typically due to the stigmatization, oppression, and discrimination that they and others in LGBTQIA+ communities face. These factors can all...
Rutland City will celebrate Pride for the first time – vtdigger.org
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Nicolais: Anti-transgender activists should take a lesson from Colorado – The Colorado Sun
Just over a week ago, to comparatively little fanfare, Gov. Jared Polis signed into law a bill that will make discrimination against anyone based on gender identity expression unlawful.In particular, the...
ABC7 Honors Pride Month | Resources and information – KABC-TV
June's Pride Month is a time to honor and celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and their allies. ABC7 Eyewitness News will have a series of reports on the LGBTQ+ community throughout...
Gay circuit party impresario Jeffrey Sanker dies at 65 – Washington Blade
WEST HOLLYWOOD – In its third annual survey released late last week, The Trevor Project found that well over two-thirds of the 35,000 LGBTQ youth ages 13–24 across the United States...
Transgender Patient Care a Priority in MD, PA, and PA Online Curricula – Yale...
A woman, who was assigned male at birth, is diagnosed with prostate cancer. This was a recent clinical training exercise from Yale’s Physician Assistant Online (PA Online) Program involving standardized patients...
Top psych stories of May: Prescription psilocybin, effectiveness of ketamine and more – Healio
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Looking at public health through an LTGBTQ+ lens – Harvard Gazette
This is one in a series of profiles showcasing some of Harvard’s stellar graduates.
Austin Marshall, M.P.H. ’21, wants to be a physician-advocate for the LGBTQ+ community and care for patients as...
Nurse practitioner who started Spektrum Health in 2018 opens LGBTQ medical clinic in Melbourne...
Support local journalism. An unlimited digital subscription to floridatoday.com is just $1 for 6 months. Click here and subscribe today.Joseph Knoll began his work with the LGBTQ community at his dining room...
The Negative Impact of Current Legislation on Gender Diverse Adolescents – Psychiatric Times
CASE VIGNETTE“Jessica,” a 13-year-old transgender girl, lives in a rural community where no other individuals identify as transgender. She has a supportive family and was able to safely come out to...
Hines VA to host PRIDE events in June, honor Special Emphasis Program’s 10th year...
The Edward Hines, Jr. VA will be hosting a series of virtual and in-person PRIDE events in June to mark ten years of its LGBT/A (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Allies) Special...
Conservative Delta County erupts over an effort to teach sexual education – The Colorado...
DELTA — Sex.Couple that with education. Link it to anything other than heterosexual unions. Bring the Bible into it. And, in Delta County, expect a volatile civic tempest.The latest controversy over...
Kentucky ties to Baptist kids agency at risk over gay rights and a Pa....
An upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision in a Pennsylvania case could be decisive in the Kentucky clash. By Bruce Shreiner/The Associated Press May 28, 2021 | 5:10 AM (Louisville, Ky.) —...
It’s time to end the AIDS epidemic | Columnist – ECM Publishers
Paige Kieffer June is right around the corner, and it’s a time when...
Sexuality and depression: Where to find support – Medical News Today
Social stigma, lack of access to mental health support, bullying, discrimination, and shame may compound the effects of depression among people who are gay. Estimates of depression among members of LGB+...
Worcester Board of Health votes to endorse call for police review board – Worcester...
WORCESTER — The Board of Health Monday voted to support calls for a police civilian review board, with member David Fort castigating city and department leaders over the topic. “I’m tired of...