Better Urology for Gay and Bisexual Men | Northwtern Medice

Contents:

• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S UROLOGY PROGRAM
• BEG GAY UROLOGY: BALANCG MY INTY
• BETTER UROLOGY FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• IN CHIGO, A NEW APPROACH TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WH PROSTATE CANCER
• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S UROLOGY
• MATTHEW R GAY, M.D.
• WHEN TO PROSTATE NCER, 'GAY MEN ARE ERASED,' PATIENTS SAY
• GAY FRIENDLY UROLOGISTS NYC
• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S CLIC
• GAY PARIS
• RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S UROLOGY PROGRAM

We veloped this program after our rearch intified unmet needs among gay, bisexual, transgenr and other patients om sexual mori. We ntue to rearch healthre needs, dispari and out for gay and bisexual men, and e those fdgs to provi prehensive re uniquely signed for our patients.

BEG GAY UROLOGY: BALANCG MY INTY

We nduct rearch to unver how certa urologic ndns and therapi affect gay and bisexual men.

BETTER UROLOGY FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

We wele all gay and bisexual patients who were assigned male at birth; intify as male, or are genr-nonnformg or nonbary; and need urology re.

I am a gay man who happens to be a urologist.

IN CHIGO, A NEW APPROACH TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WH PROSTATE CANCER

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. When tellg people what I do for a livg, pecially when I am talkg to other gay men, n feel like a b of an elephant the room. However, once we talk more, they variably start pepperg me wh qutns rangg om cur and thoughtful to sophomoric, but is often a fun nversatn.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S UROLOGY

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 .

MATTHEW R GAY, M.D.

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.

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

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. 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.

GAY FRIENDLY UROLOGISTS NYC

Those patients were men who intified as gay or bisexual, and/or men who have sex wh men (MSM). Amarasekera is the director of the Northwtern Medice Gay and Bisexual Men's Urology Program — the first of s kd the Uned Stat.

The program was lnched Augt 2021 and se patients two lotns: downtown Chigo and Northalsted, a neighborhood Chigo wh a large populatn of gay and bisexual men. Medil profsnals the Gay and Bisexual Men's Urology Program take a mdful approach to the urologic re experience for patients who were assigned male at birth (AMAB) and who intify as gay or bisexual, and/or who choose to have sex wh men.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S CLIC

After he noticed gay and bisexual patients were not gettg the prehensive urologic re they need, Dr.

This prehensive and tstg approach to patient re is improvg the liv of LGBTQ patients and fai the Gay and Bisexual Men's Urology Program.

GAY PARIS

Curt, 66, diagnosis and surgery were only the begng of a “clil and psychologil and emotnal adventure” — one he felt that many urologists were not equipped to handle, bee he was gay and the majory of doctors and their patients were symptoms are siar for all prostate ncer patients, cludg urary ntence, erectile dysfunctn, dimished libido and loss of ejaculate.

But rearchers are fdg that those chang may echo through the liv of gay and bisexual men unexpected, and sometim more difficult, obstacl n be physil and emotnal, and may be reflected patients’ relatnships wh their partners.

Channa Amarasekera, director of the Gay and Bisexual Men’s Urology Program at Northwtern Medice Chigo.

RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)

Amarasekera, who has foced his reer on urologic re for gay and bisexual men and other sexual mori, is the program’s first is an emergg field of study driven part by the creasg number of prostate ncer patients who intify as gay or bisexual. ”The gay and bisexual men their 50s and 60s who are now enterg the prime mographic for prostate ncer also lived through the worst of the AIDS epimic. Amarasekera problem, experts the field say, is that the rearch about gay and bisexual men and prostate ncer is still woefully aquate.

“Historilly, most of the rearch on gay health was foced on H. V., and young gay men, bee that was the biggt killer, ” said Simon Rosser, a profsor of epimlogy and muny health at the Universy of Mnota, who led a study 2017 of gay and bisexual men wh prostate ncer. “It’s only now that as the AIDS generatn grew olr, and aged to health problems like prostate ncer, that specialists are startg to see gay patients.