NJ Gay Health

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• LGBTQ+ PSYCHIATRISTS NEW JERSEY

LGBTQ+ PSYCHIATRISTS NEW JERSEY

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. 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. 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.

of our Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer/Qutng (LGBTQ). Dugay, APN Padmavathi Jonnalagadda, MDSarha Kartan, MDJyothi Kulkarni, MDMaximo Gomez, MD Hossam H. The historic town enjoyed a gay rebirth the late 90s and well to the ghts and the Visg Nurse Associatn of Central Jersey has a health center a brick buildg next to the tra tracks.

LGBTQI re is a branch of fay medice foced on servg the unique healthre needs of people who are gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, or queer. He was one of the first doctors to assist gay men durg the HIV crisis of the 80s and early 90s and provis passnate re for the Trans muny, cludg managg hormone therapy, appropriate health management, and examatns relatg to post affirmatn surgery is genr transn? Mory strs refers to the discrimatn, stigma, and homophobia or transphobia experienced by LGBTQI dividuals their daily of the health problems that LGBTQI populatns are more likely to enunter clu:HIV and other STDsHigher rat of alholism and substance abeLower rat of mammography and Pap tt screengHigher rat of smokgHigher rat of prsn and anxietyMembers of the LGBTQI muny are also more likely to experience vlence and n I expect om an LGBTQI re appotment?

Yet gay, transgenr, and queer people often have a hard time fdg LGBTQIA+-iendly doctors. LGBTQIA+ people livg areas wh lots of anti-gay prejudice live about 12 years shorter than those more acceptg areas. Do they have trans, gay, queer, or other LGBTQIA+ patients?