Front Matter | The Health of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr People: Buildg a Foundatn for Better Unrstandg | The Natnal Ami Prs

Contents:

• JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU
• UTAH’S ARUP BLOOD SERVIC TO EASE RTRICTNS ON GAY, BISEXUAL MALE DONORS
• THE HEALTH OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE
• REARCHERS FD DISPARI SUICI RISK AMONG LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL ADULTS
• LGBTQ VICTORY INSTUTE (GAY AND LBIAN VICTORY INSTUTE)
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU

"We n see the impact of preventn strategi like creasg HIV ttg, treatment as preventn, and pre-exposure prophylaxis particularly among gay and bisexual men, for whom new diagnos have been droppg signifintly sce 2014.

But more often, is left to satiable rearchers like Dose, followg a trail of microspic ’s no shortage of memorable moments this le of tective work, says Dose, an affable 72-year-old wh a shock of whe hair who has dited his life to unearthg the roots of the gay liberatn movement: There was the meetg wh the refed elrly dghter of a physician who worked wh Hirschfeld, who, after ffee and ke, prented Dose wh a box of antique Japane sex toys. ” There was the fortuo meetg wh the stute’s hoekeeper, who scribed her tenure as the happit time of her life, and regaled them wh tal of gettg a massive Indonian stone phall statue through German 1897, Hirschfeld helped found the Scientific Humanarian Commtee, partially outraged rponse to the trial of thor Osr Wil, two years earlier England, on 25 charg of “gross cency” related to his homosexual relatnships. Among them was a small group, cludg Dose, who brought forth the Magn Hirschfeld 1982, Germany was preparg to mark 50 years sce the Nazi takeover, and young gay rights activists cludg Dose hoped to shed light on LGBTQ persecutn and activism.

UTAH’S ARUP BLOOD SERVIC TO EASE RTRICTNS ON GAY, BISEXUAL MALE DONORS

But the Nazis’ seized holdgs had first been distributed to other librari, and then redistributed by Brish and Amerin forc, stterg the books across Europe’s cultural tl they’ve unvered so far clu the 1904 The women's clothg and s natural velopment (found Berl), a 1920 py of Three Essays on the Theory of Sexualy by Sigmund Frd (found Prague), and Va homosexualis, a 1902 llectn by gay activist Augt Fleischmann (found a Polish bookstore wh a note sayg had been slated for stctn 1933). Only one filled- py has been found, the Berl State Library, but an timated 40, 000 were once held at the stute for rearch gay liberatnAs he pieced together the fdgs, Dose realized how much broar Hirschfeld’s foc was than gay liberatn.

“We n see the impact of preventn strategi like creasg HIV ttg, treatment as preventn, and pre-exposure prophylaxis particularly among gay and bisexual men, for whom new diagnos have been droppg signifintly sce 2014. And like NOM, the RI has tried to soften s anti-LGBT image through tactics like selectively quotg om vilently anti-gay sourc and claimg to support LGBT dividuals while simply opposg their right to marry. In keepg wh s foc on reachg llege-aged people, the RI has several projects listed on s webse, cludg such iativ as a mp speakers’ bure, which brgs lectur and bat to “pro-life, pro-marriage stunt groups around the untry”; a workshop seri that explas how gay marriage affects everyone and why “man-woman marriage” is important; and stunt say ntts.

THE HEALTH OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE

Media Matters has a list of the thgs Gagnon has wrten about homosexualy over the years, cludg falsely lkg to pedophilia, and claimg that homosexualy has a pathologil si, ” that is “harmful” and that there is a “signifint ficiency homosexual relatnships. In a September 2013 lecture livered to the stunt body at the llege, Baskerville voked the “homosexual agenda” a few tim and claimed that homosexual activists played an tegral part the rise of fascist polics, cludg Nazism (a false claim that origated wh anti-LGBT activist Stt Lively).

REARCHERS FD DISPARI SUICI RISK AMONG LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL ADULTS

Baskerville also claimed that “sexualisatn [sic] is also rapidly transformg our armed forc to a gargantuan welfare state whose genero benefs, tend for real fai, act as a mag for sgle mothers and homosexuals wh sexually transmted diseas” (read the text of the speech here). Allen, who is listed the RI’s 2010-2013 strategic plan as beg on their board of advisers, is bt-known for his flawed anti-gay studi, which he claims that children of same-sex upl fare worse var aspects of life than children of oppose-sex married upl.

In 2010, Fagan -thored a study released through the FRC that claimed lbianism is “learned behavr” and that women who grow up whout their blogil parents are, for some reason, more apt to engage homosexualy. In a 2007 article the North Dakota Law Review, Wardle claimed that the dangers of same-sex marriage are gradual, like the dangers of smokg, and that “promiscuy, fily, multiple sexual partners, and dangero sexual practic are the behavral norms among gay upl (and also, to a lser extent, lbian upl). In , Esolen refers to homosexualy as an “abnormal behavr” and claims that gay men, pecially, engage “a promiscuy that beggars the imagatn, ” that “masochism and sadism … are so marked a part of the liftyle, ” and that theori about geic roots of sexual orientatn do not expla “a host of psychologil syndrom heavily reprented among gay men, cludg narcissism, self-mutilatn, prophilia, dg e, alholism, exhibnism, and suici.

LGBTQ VICTORY INSTUTE (GAY AND LBIAN VICTORY INSTUTE)

” In Febary, Esolen ntued to lk homosexualy to pedophilia when he wrote at the nservative Wherspoon Instute about the Boy Suts looseng their rtrictn on gay Suts and lears: “The Boy Suts reta the monsense notn that is not wise to brg boys to close quarters wh men who are sexually attracted to boys, regardls of whether they act on those attractns. The b don’t mentn that Welch, who is also an ordaed mister at Skyle Church San Diego, was one of the platiffs who sued the state of California over s ban of ex-gay therapy for children unr age 18. He wrote 2011 that when semary profsors support homosexual behavr, “they are not jt exprsg a personal opn; they are leadg their stunts and those stunts’ future parishners to untold pths of misery.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

Should we be surprised, then, that the Ruth Instute has stacked s “Circle of Experts” wh people who have for years nigrated and monized LGBT people wh all manner of unfound claims and warned darkly about the “dangers” of homosexualy?

The study’s thors — some who intify as heterosexual, and some who intify as gay — engaged a number of experts LGBTQIA+ advocy and rearch anizatns the US and around the world as they prepared the study and the publitn. The health of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people: buildg a foundatn for better unrstandg / Commtee on Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Health Issu and Rearch Gaps and Opportuni, Board on the Health of Select Populatns, Instute of Medice of the Natnal Ami.

18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

At the requt of the Natnal Instut of Health (NIH), 2010 the IOM nvened a mtee to asss the current state of knowledge about the health of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people, as well as to intify rearch gaps and formulate a rearch agenda that uld gui NIH enhancg and focg s rearch this area. In nsirg the health of sexual and genr mori, the mtee regnized that not only are lbians, gay men, bisexual men and women, and transgenr people all separate groups, but each of the groups enpass subpopulatns wh their own unique health needs.

It is the mtee’s hope that this report will not only assist NIH s goal of promotg the natn’s health through rearch, but also advance the public’s unrstandg about the health of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr Graham, Chair.

Suici risk among lbian, gay, and bisexual adults vari nsirably pendg on the tersectn between sexual inty and other aspects of inty, such as genr, age, and race/ethnicy, acrdg to a study led by rearchers at the Natnal Instute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of the Natnal Instut of Health.