NJ Gay Health

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healthre to the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Intersex,. 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. In March, Jefferson Health – New Jersey announced was planng to open a new, first--South Jersey medil practice wh a foc on lbian, gay, transgenr, bisexual and queer people.

lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex and asexual (LGBTQIA).

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Gay men, lbians and bisexuals often hate to see a doctor bee they fear they won’t be unrstood by mastream practners. ”Grossman, himself a gay man, has had a succsful practice Manhattan for more than two s.

Both of his practic specialize LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) patients and HIV medice. Zierg, who is also gay, is medil director of Summ Medil Group’s LGBTI service, wh the I standg for “tersex, ” scribg a person whose sexual anatomy don’t f the typil fns of eher male or female. Close to 4 percent of the state’s populatn—some 250, 000 people—intify themselv as gay, and bee not all of New Jersey’s LGBT rints are out of the closet, the real number uld be substantially higher.

Grossman expects that populatn to grow, given the migratn of gay men and women, and particularly same-sex upl, om ci to the suburbs. In the procs of the exam, the doctor took an updated personal history, durg which Lorenzo (not his real name) told her that he was gay.

Acrdg to a 2010 survey by the Natnal Center for Transgenr Equaly and the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force, 28 percent of the LGBT muny have postponed medil re when they were sick or jured, cg ncerns about discrimatn. ”What Grossman and Zierg don’t do is assume that, bee patients are gay, they tomatilly have HIV—a prejudice that’s still mon the mastream medil muny.

“As a gay man, ” he says, “beg aware of the prejudice people face and the kd of hidg they’re forced to do, I’m very sensive to the thgs that people are feelg judged about. As a former board member of the Gay and Lbian Medil Associatn, Zierg gets referrals through the group’s webse. For both doctors, word of mouth has helped build a patient base, and LGBT patients often refer (straight as well as gay) fay need for LGBT medil re is so acute New Jersey, says Grossman, that he expects to foc creasgly on the Garn State practice.

of our Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer/Qutng (LGBTQ).

The Anti-Vlence Project Through muny anizg, tn, policy and rearch, the Communy Organizg and Public Advocy (COPA) Department works towards shiftg policy, buildg power of muny members and rpondg to cints of anti-LGBTQIA+ vlence orr to create systemic change people’s Siperste PROUD Center (Somerset County)Robert Wood Johnson Universy Hospal Somerset offers specialized primary re servic for the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, qutng, tersex and asexual (LGBTQIA+) muny at our Babs Siperste PROUD Rt Center for Social Jtice EDUCATE. Equaly FeratnNatnal alliance of state-based lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr advocy Acceptance Project The Fay Acceptance Project® is a rearch, terventn, tn and policy iative to prevent health and mental health risks and to promote well-beg for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer-intified (LGBTQ) children and youth, cludg suici, homelsns, dg e and HIV — the ntext of their fai, cultur and fah State Equaly Garn State Equaly lifts up the diverse voic of LGBTQIA+ muni through tn and advocy to advance the movement for equaly New Jersey and natnally.