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Contents:

• GAY DOCTORS NEAR ME
• 139 DOCTOR AND GAY PATIENT STOCK VIOS, 4K FOOTAGE, & VIO CLIPS
• 'AS A BLACK, GAY PHYSICIAN, I'VE SURVIVED IN AMERI BY EMBRACG MY ANGER'
• IN CHIGO, A NEW APPROACH TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WH PROSTATE CANCER
• 139 DOCTOR WH GAY PATIENT STOCK VIOS, 4K FOOTAGE, & VIO CLIPS
• MEET ALEX LANDI, THE ACTOR PLAYG GREY'S ANATOMY'S FIRST GAY MALE SURGEON
• GAY DOCTOR STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU
• 185 DOCTOR GAY PATIENT STOCK PHOTOS, IMAG & PICTUR

GAY DOCTORS NEAR ME

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. The provirs the directory have agreed to certa affirmatns listed on GLMA’s webse, such as: “I wele lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr dividuals and fai to my practice and offer all health servic to patients on an equal basis, regardls of sexual orientatn, genr inty, maral stat, and other non-medilly relevant factors.

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It was the bigger moments when iends publicly lled out others for homophobic slurs, or when I then realized I uld speak up agast such words too. It felt like high school all over aga and seemed that who I was—a Black, gay man—uld not exist wh the medil were my classmat allowed to e discrimatory words, but the send I lmly spoke up for myself or others, ed "ictn"?

Found New York 2010, Bpoke Surgil is the leadg practice liverg ncierge-style medil servic to addrs the unique health and wellns needs of the gay muny.

'AS A BLACK, GAY PHYSICIAN, I'VE SURVIVED IN AMERI BY EMBRACG MY ANGER'

Goldste is mted to wispread tn and awarens —not only brgg the important issu surroundg gay sexual health to the foreont, but also helpg to elimate the stigmas attached to them. Goldste has penned many trigug piec on a myriad of subjects cludg: the unique health issu the gay muny, what means to be gay, and specifilly what means to be a gay father the current natnal climate. Goldste serv as The Advote’s Sexual Health Expert, is a regular ntributor to Gays Wh Kids, and has been featured other well-known publitns, cludg Vice, Out, and Refery29.

He is actively volved the LGBTQ+ muny, supportg anizatns such as the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Callen-Lor Communy Health Center, AIDS Communy Rearch Iniative of Ameri (ACRIA), and Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network (GLESN).

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

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. 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.

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.

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Amarasekera studied urologists’ trag and found that many reported receivg ls than five hours of stctn on the treatment of gay and bisexual patients.

“It’s important to llect data on how treatment affects sexual functn differently for gay and bisexual men, who have different sexual repertoir than straight men, ” he said. “If you lack the tools to measure aspects of sexual functn that are specific to gay and bisexual men, you lose an opportuny to track their progrs. Amarasekera se at the program’s two clics — one downtown Chigo and the other the historilly gay Northalsted neighborhood — are unprepared to face yet another health crisis.

”The health re system, he said, “margaliz gay men, particularly when to sexual health, and the prostate is so lked to sexual health gay men. “Partial erectile dysfunctn has a particular impact” on gay patients, she said, and they “report signifintly greater ncern about loss of ejaculate than heterosexual men. Amarasekera “nsired my whole person, and my whole personhood enpassed my beg gay, ” he ia also spired Perry McKay, a Chigo philanthropist whose donatn helped get the Northwtern program off the ground.

MEET ALEX LANDI, THE ACTOR PLAYG GREY'S ANATOMY'S FIRST GAY MALE SURGEON

“This is an opportuny to munite, tra and te urologists on how to provi better re tailored to the specific needs of gay and bisexual men, ” he Rosser agreed. Many health re and mental health anizatns foced on the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny also offer substance e treatment or may be able to provi rmatn about lol rourc.

UnyPot Clic offers dividualized health re servic a fortable and welg environment to the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and qutng muni. There are a few optns for gay men and bisexual men same-sex relatnships who aspire to have children, cludg surrogacy, where sperm is ed to fertilize a donated egg, which is then rried to term by a surrogate mother. It's rare to see a gay relatnship between men shown on a televisn show of Grey's liber, and the normalcy and emotns showg the two's love for one another are rehg.

GAY DOCTOR STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

Callie Torr' father to Seattle Grace wh the pastor of their church and a plan to nvce his dghter she isn't gay this emotnal episo that shows a real look at how people of the LGBTQ+ muny n be treated by their own loved on. After she shouts at her father that he n't "pray away the gay, " Callie tells Arizona she don't need a fay who's not gog to accept her for who she is.

" Kyle explas to Callie how all he wanted was to make the day feel special, as the state of Washgton didn't regnize gay marriage as a real marriage. Our rearch has found that the last five years, medil practners at least eight untri -- Cameroon, Egypt, Kenya, Lebanon, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uganda, and Zambia -- have nducted such "tts" on men and transgenr women acced of homosexual, sometim armed wh a prosecutor's orr, take "spects" to a forensic doctor or a general practner, who serts fgers and sometim objects to the an to terme s "tone. The anizatn has stated that at least 15 medil ndns, rangg om nstipatn to Parkson's disease, n e ditns siar to those that some doctors see as signs of homosexualy, such as a loose anal sphcter.

In at least eight untri which nsensual same-sex nduct is crimalized, law enforcement officials workg tanm wh medil personnel subject men and transgenr women who are arrted on homosexualy-related charg to forced anal examatns, wh the purported objective of fdg “proof” of homosexual nduct. Law enforcement officials and some medil personnel claim that by dog so they n terme the tone of the anal sphcter or the shape of the an and draw nclns as to whether or not the acced person has engaged homosexual nduct. Genwa Samhat, director of the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights group, Helem, Lebanon, who has terviewed a number of victims of forced anal exams, said that even when she recently terviewed a victim three years after the fact, he found difficult to speak about the trmatic experience.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU

Police take men and transgenr women who are arrted on homosexualy-related charg before a forensic medice specialist, who nducts an anal examatn and prepar a report, which is then troduced to urt as a form of evince for the prosecutn. In Cameroon and Zambia, although e of forced anal exams is ls equent than Egypt and Tunisia, prosecutors have troduced medil reports based on anal exams to urt, ntributg to nvictns of dividuals charged wh nsensual homosexual nduct. In Uganda, the last three years, police Kampala have equently subjected men and transgenr women acced of nsensual homosexual nduct to anal exams.

” In September 2015, wh the support of Kenya’s Natnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn, the men filed a petn wh the High Court of Kenya Mombasa, challengg the nstutnaly of forced anal examatns, and HIV and hepatis tts.

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In Lebanon, thori often ed forced anal examatns agast men arrted on homosexualy-related charg until 2012, when Lebane activists mounted a mpaign labelg the exams “Tts of Shame. It is time for stat to rtore basic rights and digny to men and transgenr women acced of homosexual nduct, and to regnize that the prohibn on torture and cel, human, and gradg treatment extends to everyone, regardls of their sexual orientatn or genr inty. Human Rights Watch terviewed 32 victims of anal examatns, as well as lawyers, activists, ernment officials, and doctors, cludg doctors four untri who had personally nducted anal exams on men acced of homosexualy.

Chloe, a 19-year-old transgenr woman, was arrted Kampala May 2015, together wh her partner, Eric, age 25, after a mob attacked them on spicn that they were homosexual and turned them to the police. The new wave of arrts, many of which have been acpanied by the e of forced anal examatns, harkens back to a perd of tense harassment of gay men over a ago, which activists had thought was long gone. In May 2001, police Cairo raid a dis on an anchored cise ship on the Nile, the “Queen Boat, ” and arrted dozens of men whom they spected of beg gay.

In 2015, an Egyptian forensic medice doctor told the news outlet Buzzfeed that a homosexual n be intified bee his an “will look like the female vaga.

Uganda adopted s notor Anti-Homosexualy Act Febary 2014 and also stepped up arrts unr the already existg sectn 145 of the penal , which punish "rnal knowledge agast the orr of nature" wh life prison. [21] In Kenya and Zambia, moral panics targetg gay men and transgenr women led to seemgly unprecented arrts unr siar laws, 2013 Zambia, and 2015 Kenya. However, as documented Sectn II, as recently as 2015, some prosecutors were still requtg, and some doctors were still nductg, anal exams on men acced of homosexual sex.

Human Rights Watch also received two reports of s of police Syria orrg gay men to unrgo forced anal ttg, 2012 and 2014, but has not penntly verified the allegatns.

While this report foc specifilly on forced anal exams the ntext of homosexualy prosecutns, Human Rights Watch also urg the untri which “virgy tts” and forced HIV ttg are nducted to take immediate steps to end them. Cameroon, which punish “sexual relatns wh a person of the same sex” wh up to five years prison, is one of a handful of untri that has vigoroly applied s anti-homosexualy law—often g forced anal examatns to seek “proof” of.

The medil reports, on file wh Human Rights Watch, dite how the doctor serted two fgers to the an of each man; they also provi her mentary on the odor of each man’s fec, as if this nstuted evince of homosexual nduct.

[40] Human Rights Watch nducted field rearch Cameroon 2012 and 2013 partnership wh Alternativ-Cameroun, the Associatn for the Defense of Homosexuals (ADEFHO), the Cameroon Foundatn for AIDS (CAMFAIDS), and Avots Sans Frontiers-Suisse (Lawyers whout Borrs-Swzerland), intifyg numero exampl of the e of forced anal exams different regns. Freddy, a young man the southwtern town of Kumba, told that December 2011, a male doctor at Kumba General Hospal nducted anal exams on him, two other young men, and a 17-year-old boy on the orr of the police, who had arrted the four youths after they were attacked by a homophobic mob. In the se of at least one man acced of homosexual nduct, the Natnal Commissn on Human Rights and Freedoms, a quasi-ernmental stutn, 2011 wrote to the Mistry of Jtice to formally exprs opposn to anal exams, but received no rponse.

[64] However, an apparent crackdown on people spected of beg HIV-posive 2008, police arrted 12 men on the basis of spicn that they were both HIV-posive and homosexual. After a up rulted a new ernment late 2013, the Egyptian Iniative for Personal Rights (EIPR) began documentg creased arrts and harassment of people perceived to be gay or transgenr by the public morals police, wh at least 77 arrts takg place between October 2013 and May 2014. In December 2014, the arrt of 26 men at a bathhoe Cairo garnered natnal and ternatnal media attentn, part bee of s sle—EIPR reported that was the largt mass arrt for homosexual nduct sce the Queen Boat se—and part bee was a staged media event: a televisn prenter, Mona Iraqi, filmed the arrts and circulated footage of naked men beg herd to the streets.

”[75] They were nvicted spe the fact that a spokman for the Forensic Medil Authory announced two months prr to the verdict that, based on rults of the forensic anal exams, the men were “not homosexuals. The Kwale County arrts took place the ntext of a weeks-long wch hunt for gay men and transgenr women the astal towns of Ukunda and Diani, after photos and vios circulated on social media showg men—some who were known to be om the area—engagg same-sex acts. One of the reports stat, “anal sphcter tact/no homosexualy tected, ”[84] while another purports to fd evince of “repeated peratn by blunt object.

In September 2015, Adam and Bryan, wh the support of the Natnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn (NGLHRC), filed a petn before the High Court, challengg the nstutnaly of forced anal exams and HIV and hepatis tts. Police Lebanon, where article 534 of the penal punish “any sexual terurse ntrary to the orr of nature … by up to one year prison, ” have a history of arrtg, harassg, and sometim torturg people spected of beg gay. [90] But ma headl Augt 2012 when, rponse to an effective, media savvy mpaign by activists, the jtice mister at the time, Shakib Qortbawi, issued a statement llg for an end to anal examatns on men acced of homosexual nduct.