As a physician treatg or preparg to treat lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr patients, you may wonr whether you’re sayg or dog the right thgs. Physicians answer qutns om peers.
Contents:
- COMMTEE ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER MATTERS
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
COMMTEE ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER MATTERS
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Fund projects curriculum velopment or productn of rearch that addrs lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr health dispari. GLMA - Health Profsnals Advancg LGBTQ Equaly (prevly known as the Gay & Lbian Medil Associatn) is the world's largt and olst associatn of LGBTQ healthre profsnals. As a physician treatg or preparg to treat lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) patients, you may wonr whether you’re sayg the right thgs or whether your practice environment is welg to patients of all sexual orientatns.
Panelists remend that physicians nsult the Fenway Gui to Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Health, which addrs important issu facg patients and physicians, cludg rg for LGBT patients of different age groups, rmatn on the velopment of genr inty children, sexual health and HIV preventn. “[Patients] who grew up a time when beg gay uld get them fired, or they grew up a time when they uld go to jail or they uld be beaten, ” Acquaviva said, “may not ever feel fortable g out to you.
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
The missn of Mosaic Medil Center for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer+ Health and Wellns is to provi a welg, clive, and safe healthre environment where people who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer+ n accs the hight qualy and most affirmg healthre. Primary Lbian, Gay, Bi Specific Healthre. LGBTIQ+ health refers to the physil, mental, and emotnal well-beg of people who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex or queer (LGBTIQ+).
People who are lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr (LGBT) are members of every muny. People who are lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr have a variety of health needs. Where homosexual activy or viance om tablished genr rol/drs was banned by law or tradnal ctom, such nmnatn might be munited through sensatnal public trials, exile, medil warngs, and language om the pulp.
The paths of persecutn entrenched homophobia for centuri—but also alerted entire populatns to the existence of difference.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
By the 20th century, a movement regnn of gays and lbians was unrway, abetted by the social climate of femism and new anthropologi of difference. However, throughout 150 years of homosexual social movements (roughly om the 1870s to today), lears and anizers stggled to addrs the very different ncerns and inty issu of gay men, women intifyg as lbians, and others intifyg as genr variant or nonbary.
Whe, male, and Wtern activists whose groups and theori gaed leverage agast homophobia did not necsarily reprent the range of racial, class, and natnal inti plitg a broar LGBT agenda. Most historians agree that there is evince of homosexual activy and same-sex love, whether such relatnships were accepted or persecuted, every documented culture.
We know that homosexualy existed ancient Israel simply bee is prohibed the Bible, whereas flourished between both men and women Ancient Greece. Such eyewns acunts the era before other media were of urse riddled wh the bias of the (often) Wtern or Whe observer, and add to beliefs that homosexual practic were other, foreign, savage, a medil issue, or evince of a lower racial hierarchy. The European powers enforced their own crimal s agast what was lled sodomy the New World: the first known se of homosexual activy receivg a ath sentence North Ameri occurred 1566, when the Spanish executed a Frenchman Florida.