A new study, released today at the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s 2021 Annual Meetg, held onle, exam the relatnship between parental acceptance of lbian and gay children’s sexual orientatn and their mental health later life. The study fds that a nsistent perspective, even negative, leads to better out for lbian and gay people, than parents wh changg perspectiv.
Contents:
- ASSOCIATN OF GAY AND LBIAN PSYCHIATRISTS (AGLP)
- DIVERSY & HEALTH EQUY EDUTN: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER/QUTNG
- LBIAN & GAY PSYCHOTHERAPY ASSOCIATN
- NEW STUDY EXAM RELATNSHIP BETWEEN PARENTAL ACCEPTANCE OF LBIAN AND GAY CHILDREN AND LATER LIFE MENTAL HEALTH
ASSOCIATN OF GAY AND LBIAN PSYCHIATRISTS (AGLP)
The Associatn of Gay and Lbian Psychiatrists (AGLP) is a profsnal anizatn of psychiatrists, rints, medil stunts and supporters, which serv as a voice for the ncerns of lbians and gay men the profsnal psychiatric muny. AGLP is mted to fosterg a more accurate unrstandg of homosexualy, ensurg well-rmed and appropriate treatment for lbians and gay men, and opposg discrimatory practic agast gays and lbians our society. * association of gay and lesbian psychiatrists *
Workg wh the APA and public agenci to fluence polici relevant to the lbian and gay muny. AGLP, celebratg over 40 years of service to the LGBTQ Communy, trac s roots to the late 1960s, when gay and lbian members of the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA) met secretly at the annual meetgs. At that time, most stat, homosexualy uld be ed as e for the loss of licensure to practice psychiatry.
John Fryer In 1972, and the behd-the-scen work of several members of what was then referred to as the GayPA, the APA removed homosexualy om their diagnostic manual (DSM). This allowed a more open associatn of lbian and gay psychiatrists, who no longer had to fear for their jobs if they were found out to be gay. D., Award, and rearch and advocy of particular tert to the LGBTQ+ Communy through our quarterly Journal of Gay and Lbian Mental Health.
In 2015, The Associatn of Gay and Lbian Psychiatrists changed s name to AGLP: The Associatn of LGBTQ+ Psychiatrists, orr to serve a broar nstuency of members and patients the LGBTQ muny.
DIVERSY & HEALTH EQUY EDUTN: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER/QUTNG
Mental health profsnals terted gay and lbian clients. LAGPA members are actively volved expandg the role of psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and marriage, fay, and child unselors who serve the greater gay muny of Southern California. * association of gay and lesbian psychiatrists *
- Publish the quarterly Journal of Gay and Lbian Mental Health, the official journal of AGLP, and provi a ee subscriptn for all full, associate, early reer, and medil stunt members;. - Work wh the APA to fluence polici relevant to the lbian and gay muny;.
- Collaborate wh other anizatns of gay and lbian physicians and mental health profsnals;. - Provi referral servic for lbian and gay patients;. - Enurage and facilate the prentatn of programs and publitns relevant to gay and lbian ncerns at profsnal meetgs; and.
He has served on Print Barak Obama’s Printial Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, on the Associatn of Amerin Medil Colleg Council of Deans, as Print of the Natnal Lbian and Gay Health Associatn, Print of the Washgton Psychiatric Society and Chairman of the Whman Walker Health Board of Directors. Jerome Frank, one of the leadg parative psychotherapy rearch psychiatrists of the time, who had served on the earlier NIMH Hooker Commissn, that found no differenc personaly functn between homosexual and heterosexual men.
LBIAN & GAY PSYCHOTHERAPY ASSOCIATN
John Money, the psychologist on the earlit “sexual reassignment” surgery team, who tght Human Sexualy for the medil school, cludg gay, lbian, bisexual and transsexual velopment and behavr. After graduatn he began his ternship at the Universy of Wisns, Madison, where he joed the Gay Liberatn Front. At Yale he served as the group facilator for the first Conference on Homosexualy and the Clergy, anized by his boyiend, who was a graduate stunt the Divy School.
In 1976 he attend the APA Annual Meetg Miami and the first meetg of what later beme the Associatn of Gay and Lbian Psychiatrists. Doug Woodff of Baltimore at that meetg, and together they anized the Washgton-Baltimore Gay and Lbian Psychiatrists Group, the regnal affiliate. We met monthly for eleven years peer supervisn to teach ourselv openly as gay and lbian therapists about homosexual velopment, behavr and practic, transference, and ethics, which none of had been tght while closeted durg rincy.
NEW STUDY EXAM RELATNSHIP BETWEEN PARENTAL ACCEPTANCE OF LBIAN AND GAY CHILDREN AND LATER LIFE MENTAL HEALTH
In the early years of the AIDS epimic after the aths of iends and lleagu, he me out profsnally orr to be a role mol and teach ratnally about work wh gay patients and psychiatric aspects of AIDS. When beme clear that the Instute still would not accept gay or lbian rints, I objected to the merger as discrimatory and the Department whdrew s proposal. Jeff Akman, the subsequent openly gay Chair and later Dean of the School of Medice and Health Scienc, was then able to achieve the merger.
He served on the Amerin Psychiatry Associatn Commtee on Managed Care, Council on Qualy of Care and Commtee on Gay, Lbian and Bisexual Issu. It was named after one of the founrs of the gay rights movement and one of the activists stmental movg APA to nsir pathologizg homosexualy.
Beme active the APA Assembly startg 1995, as Deputy Reprentative and then Rep for the Cc of Gay, Lbian, and Bisexual Psychiatrists, and was award the Ron Shellow Assembly Award for service the Assembly 2009.