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LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER PRI MONTH
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June is Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer (LGBTQ) Pri Month.
LGBTIQ+ health refers to the physil, mental, and emotnal well-beg of people who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex or queer (LGBTIQ+). The pl sign reprents the vast diversy of people terms of sexual orientatn, genr inty, exprsn and sex characteristics (SOGIESC). The LGBTIQ+ acronym is dynamic and n vary pendg on the regn or untry, highlightg the multu of LGBTIQ+ muni across cultur. While regnizg the diversy of LGBTIQ+ people, evince suggts some mon experienc affectg their health and well-beg. They are ls likely to accs health servic and engage wh healthre workers due to stigma and discrimatn, rultg adverse physil and mental health out. They n also experience human rights vlatns cludg vlence, torture, crimalizatn, voluntary medil procr and discrimatn. In addn, they n face nial of re, discrimatory attus and appropriate pathologizg healthre settgs based on their SOGIESC. WHO's support to untri is found on the fundamental human rights prciple that all persons should have accs to health servic whout discrimatn. The adoptn of the 2030 Agenda for Staable Development and s pledge to “leave no one behd”, based on the normative amework of ternatnal human rights law, has rerced the need to unrstand and improve the health and well-beg of LGBTIQ+ people. WHO velops guil, provis technil support and nducts rearch to help untri velop and strengthen clive health systems and polici for the health and well-beg of all people, regardls of SOGIESC. * loc and lgbt *
It was not the first time police raid a gay bar, and was not the first time LGBTQ+ people fought back, but the events that would unfold over the next six days would fundamentally change the disurse surroundg LGBTQ+ activism the Uned Stat. Nsists of actual Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Transgenr and Straight. Notably, an ununted number of LGBTQ+ people have died as a rult of police raids on gay spac.
As outspoken lbian anizers for civil rights, civil liberti, and human digny whose personal relatnship fueled s of polil activism, Phyllis Lyon and Del Mart created and helped shape the morn gay and femist movements. The llectn illumat the liv of lbians, gays, transgenr, and bisexual dividuals and the muny wh ntent cludg selectns om The Natnal Archiv Kew, materials llected by activist and publisher Tracy Baim om the mid-1980s through the mid-2000s, the Magn Hirschfeld and Harry Benjam llectns om the Ksey Instute, perdils such as En la Vida and BLACKl, select rare works om notable LGBT publishers cludg Alyson Books and Cleis Prs, as well as mastream tra and universy publishers.
G38 B78 2016ISBN: 9781479803613Published/Created: 2016-10-04On June 28, 1970, two thoand gay and lbian activists New York, Los Angel, and Chigo parad down the streets of their ci a new kd of social prott, one marked by celebratn, fun, and unashamed claratn of a stigmatized inty.