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Contents:

• GENEVA GAY
• GENEVA GAY: A LEGACY OF ELEVATG MULTICULTURAL TN TO PROMENCE
• HEALTH STAT, BEHAVR, AND RE UTILIZATN THE GENEVA GAY MEN'S HEALTH SURVEY
• HIGH PREVALENCE OF MENTAL DISORRS AND ORBIDY THE GENEVA GAY MEN’S HEALTH STUDY
• ASSSMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICE RINT PREPAREDNS TO CARE FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER/QUTNG PATIENTS

GENEVA GAY

Emer ProfsorGeneva Gay is Profsor of Edutn at the Universy of Washgton-Seattle where she teach multicultural tn and general curriculum theory. Gay's wrgs clu numero articl and book chapters, cludg A Synthis of Scholarship Multicultural Edutn; the -edorship of Exprsively Black: The Cultural Basis of Ethnic Inty (Praeger, 1987); thor of At the Essence of Learng: Multicultural Edutn (Kappa Delta Pi, 1994), and Culturally Rponsive Teachg: Theory, Practice, & Rearch (Teachers College Prs, 2000); and edor of Beg Multicultural Edutors: Personal Journey Toward Profsnal Agency (Jossey-Bass, 2003). When Profsor Geneva Gay began her reer as a high school social studi teacher more than four s ago, the ncept of multicultural tn was still s fancy.

This July, Gay will retire followg a 29-year reer at the Universy of Washgton College of Edutn which her ternatnally-regnized scholarship has advanced the field profound ways — while makg clear the sential role of multicultural tn an creasgly diverse and ternnected world. “When I first started teachg, I was a posn wh my own inty of tryg to overpensate for the notns that society had imposed on Ain-Amerins, ” Gay said. Yet Gay also felt tensn relatnships wh her Black stunts, notg that when she stepped to a “profsnal” role to give the school district le, stunts would ph back.

As Gay’s doctoral studi progrsed, she dug eper to why she had been more succsful bondg wh her Black stunts than other, more experienced teachers — even though wasn’t an tentnal strategy on her part. In 1987, Gay eded “Exprsively Black: The Cultural Basis of Ethnic Inty, ” a llectn of says explorg different aspects of the Black cultural experience, cludg chapters on Black style, kship and fay ti, munitn, learship, art, relign, physil exprsivens and cultural ntuatn. Gay’s first experience at the UW College of Edutn me the summer of 1989, thanks to a visg profsorship arranged by Profsor Emer Jam A.

GENEVA GAY: A LEGACY OF ELEVATG MULTICULTURAL TN TO PROMENCE

Followg her arrival at the UW, Gay would go on to wre or ed several foundatnal works multicultural tn and the term “culturally rponsive teachg” to fe an approach that emphasiz g the cultural knowledge, prr experienc, am of reference and performance styl of ethnilly diverse stunts to make learng enunters more relevant to and effective for them. In her book, Gay not the child is the meang-maker and that the teacher's rponsibily is to build stctur and create strategi that help all children gather meang om their surroundgs.

In “Culturally Rponsive Teachg: Theory, Rearch, and Practice, ” recipient of the Amerin Associatn of Colleg for Teacher Edutn’s 2001 Outstandg Wrg Award, Gay monstrat that all stunts will perform better on multiple measur of achievement when teachg is filtered through their own cultural experienc. As edor of the 2003 book “Beg Multicultural Edutors: Personal Journey Toward Profsnal Agency, ” Gay offers 14 pellg stori of teachers learng how to work wh stunts om a wi range of ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds.

Gay scrib herself as a teacher-scholar, wh an emphasis on her role as teacher helpg numero graduate stunts enter the field and make their own unique ntributns. Culturally rponsive teachg means g stunts’ ctoms, characteristics, experience, and perspectiv as tools for better classroom term was ed by rearcher Geneva Gay 2000, who wrote that “when amic knowledge and skills are suated wh the lived experienc and am of reference for stunts, they are more personally meangful, have higher tert appeal, and are learned more easily and thoroughly. Rights and reviews and studi suggt distctive health needs among gay rints the Geneva Gay Men's Health Survey (GGMHS, n = 477) were matched wh ntrols om the Swiss Health Survey (SHS, n = 477) along sex, age, natnaly, and regn of rince and pared along standard ditors of health stat, health behavrs, and health re utilizatn.

HEALTH STAT, BEHAVR, AND RE UTILIZATN THE GENEVA GAY MEN'S HEALTH SURVEY

Evince of greater morbidy among a muny sample of gay men along standard health ditors unrl the relevance of sexual orientatn as a soc-mographic ditor public health general and the health equali disurse particular. IntroductnThe foc of public health efforts among gay men the past 20 years has been domated by the HIV/AIDS epimic, yet recent reviews of health issu relevant to gay men, lbians, bisexual men and women, and transgenr people (GLBT) released on three ntents (Dean et al., 2000, Gay and Lbian Medil Associatn and LGBT health experts, 2001, Ryan and Cherv, 2001, Misterial Advisory Commtee on Gay and Lbian Health, 2002, Douglas Stt et al., 2004) suggt higher morbidy sexual health (e.

Yet while GLBT are gag regnn as a “muny” for targeted public health polici, the evince basis is poor (Sell and Becker, 2001, Boehmer, 2002), leadg the Amerin Public Health Associatn (APHA) to pass a rolutn llg for more rearch on the relatnship between disease and sexual orientatn (1999) Geneva Gay Men's Health Survey (GGMHS) was a prehensive health survey – i. In orr to explore the possible existence of distctive health needs, this paper prents a parison between a muny sample of gay men and matched general populatn ntrols along key health ditors.

Sectn snippetsSampleThe Geneva Gay Men's Health Survey (GGMHS) was a cross-sectnal venue-based probabily survey g time-space samplg veloped by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn (CDC) (MacKellar et al., 1996, Stueve et al., 2001). E., gay anizatn events, bars/f, clubs, sex clubs, bathho, parks/public toilets, and chatrooms – were enumerated for viss over a 1-week perd, providg the basisSoc-mographic factorsThe GGMHS sample nsisted largely of a young and mid-life populatn wh an average age of 35 years (SD = 10. Although there were twice as many DiscsnAlthough the gay male sample prented a healthier profile for attentn to food choic and body mass x, all other health ditors were eher equivol or suggted greater morbidy than the general male populatn, even after ntrollg for differenc soc-mographic characteristics and health behavrs.

HIGH PREVALENCE OF MENTAL DISORRS AND ORBIDY THE GENEVA GAY MEN’S HEALTH STUDY

While the fdgs unrsre greater morbidy (Dean et al., 2000, Ryan and Cherv, 2001, Stall et al., 2003, Douglas Stt et al., 2004), this study is among the first toConclnsAlthough poor ditors for chronic ndns the SHS make difficult to tablish higher disease morbidy this gay male sample wh certaty, gay men were more likely to have suffered om morate/severe symptoms the past 4 weeks and have reported short-term disabily.

Furthermore, gay men were more likely to report high cholterol, high blood prsure, high gluse, and smokg which are all major risk factors for ser chronic diseas. Fally, greater health reAcknowledgmentsThe thors wish to thank project assistant Vcent Job and the many volunteers and experts who have ntributed to the Geneva Gay Men's Health Project. Data llectn for the Geneva Gay Men's Health Survey was fanced by the Swiss Natnal Rearch Foundatn grant 3326-062448 and the Swiss Feral Office of Public Health.

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ASSSMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICE RINT PREPAREDNS TO CARE FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER/QUTNG PATIENTS

Health issu of major ncern to gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (GLBTI) victorians(2002)Ced by (42)Sexual partners, sexually transmted fectns, and prostate ncer risk2014, Cancer EpimlogyIn addn, homosexual men have a greater risk of ntractg HIV and of beg immunosupprsed, makg them more vulnerable to velopg ncer [21].

Subjects who self-intified as homosexual or who dited havg had male sexual partners had a greater prevalence of dividual typ of STIs than self-intified heterosexual men, which has been observed prevly [22, 23]. The fect disease hypothis uld th acunt for the health leracy and the experience of prsn a muny sample of gay men2014, Journal of Affective DisorrsRecent reviews summarize the body of evince for higher prevalence and risk of prsn among sexual mori generally (lifetime OR=2. A health survey among gay men Geneva, Swzerland, nfirmed high prevalenc of prsn (lifetime self-report 40%, 12-month diagnosis 19%) this populatn, upled wh early onset, high orbidy, and low levels of awarens of one's own prsn and profsnal help-seekg (Wang et al., 2007b).