Beg gay urology: balancg my inty | Nature Reviews Urology

Contents:

• BEG GAY UROLOGY: BALANCG MY INTY
• MATTHEW R GAY, M.D.
• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S UROLOGY PROGRAM
• WHEN TO PROSTATE NCER, 'GAY MEN ARE ERASED,' PATIENTS SAY
• GAY FRIENDLY UROLOGISTS NYCEXPERIENCED GAY-FRIENDLY UROLOGISTS OFFER COMPASSNATE AND CONFINTIAL CARE FOR GAY AND LBIAN PATIENTS NYC.
• DR. MATTHEW R. GAY
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

BEG GAY UROLOGY: BALANCG MY INTY

If you are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and/or intify as a sexual and/or genr mory and are lookg for LGBTQ+ affirmg doctors, physicians, clicians, and healthre provirs, you have e to the right place.

Sutherland, Xavier Cathele, Luciano A Nunez Bragayrac, Ioannis M. Gee Washgton Universy Hospal is mted to providg specialized health servic for members of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) muny. Theoretilly, shouldn’t matter whether your doctor is gay or not.

MATTHEW R GAY, M.D.

However, a Peak Men's Health patient, Matthew*, recently shared his reasons for choosg a gay urologist. They worry that the doctor may judge them or give them subpar re bee of unaddrsed homophobia. Cheng advertisement, I was exced for a gay doctor who would fully unrstand me and not feel that I had to hi anythg.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S UROLOGY PROGRAM

Even non-LGBTQ patients n benef om seeg a gay doctor, as a judgment-ee, open atmosphere n rult more straightforward nversatns about your health needs. I am a gay man who happens to be a urologist. Regardls of which one ws out, they are both extribly part of who I am and they are both always a gay urologist is tertg.

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WHEN TO PROSTATE NCER, 'GAY MEN ARE ERASED,' PATIENTS SAY

Tellg people at work that I am gay is surround by so much more potential anxiety and fear of discrimatn. Even though is 2021, and beg gay is more accepted today than has ever been the past, n still be nerve-wrackg when cidg whether, when, and how to e out to lleagu or mentors. This is, unfortunately, not an irratnal fear; once, a patient told me they would rather see one of my partners bee they found my profile on a social media platform on which I am open and vol about beg gay.

More than one study has documented that physicians who intify as LGBTQ+ or otherwise as a Sexual or Genr Mory (SGM) have experienced mistreatment or discrimatn om mentors, lleagu and, I have been enterg a fascatg new phase of my life and reer, where I am learng to merge my inti as a gay man and a urologist, and I uld not be happier about . Our patients have appreciated havg surgeons who are part of the same LGBTQ+ muny (my partner this enavour, a plastic surgeon who started the programme at our hospal, is also gay) — surgeons who, although we are not trans ourselv, at least have some mon ground. Through this mentorg, I have been dog my bt to improve LGBTQ+ reprentatn urology both passively by beg an out gay man amic medice and actively by unsellg and speakg to medil stunts.

Matthew R Gay, M. We veloped this program after our rearch intified unmet needs among gay, bisexual, transgenr and other patients om sexual mori.

GAY FRIENDLY UROLOGISTS NYCEXPERIENCED GAY-FRIENDLY UROLOGISTS OFFER COMPASSNATE AND CONFINTIAL CARE FOR GAY AND LBIAN PATIENTS NYC.

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DR. MATTHEW R. GAY

“I’ve been a gay activist — and been out — so long that I took for granted I uld talk openly to my doctors, ” he told NBC News. Brass’ said his sexual functn was relatively good, but stead he stggled wh ntence for weeks — g as many as ne “pads” a day and stayg wh yards of a bathroom at all you’re gay and you go to a urologist who hasn’t alt wh gay men, they’ll tell you, 'Brg your wife wh you.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

'"He joed a prostate ncer support group specifilly for gay and bisexual men at Mount Sai Hospal Manhattan, one of several anized by the natnal advocy anizatn wh other queer men “allowed to be very open about our feelgs — and our sexualy — and to be empathetic wh each other, ” Brass said. “Too often gay men are erased the [support] groups.

They don’t want to hear other men be vulnerable, and they don’t want to hear about gay sex. “If you’re gay and you go to a urologist who hasn’t alt wh gay men, they’ll tell you, ‘Brg your wife wh you, ’" he said. ”That disfort n spread to gay patients.