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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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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. 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.
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
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+).
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
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.
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.