LCMC Health Announces Partnerships to Address Cultural Competency – Biz New Orleans
11/22/2022 NEW ORLEANS – LCMC Health has partnered with three local LGBTQ+ organizations: House of Tulip, LGBT Community Center of New Orleans, and the New Orleans Advocates...
Revised Challenge to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” Law is Filed – Legal Reader
Once again, Florida’s new law is being challenged in court.
Students, their parents and a nonprofit organization have renewed a lawsuit concerning Florida’s new “Don’t Say Gay” law prohibiting public...
Health harms of mass shootings ripple across communities – Ohio Capital Journal
This article was originally published in Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts.
A grim and familiar pattern has followed the parade of mass shootings across America. In their aftermath, the...
In California, 10% of Legislature now identifies as LGBTQ – The Associated Press –...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — While LGBTQ candidates and their supporters celebrated several milestone victories around the nation in this year’s midterm elections, California quietly reached its own: At least 10%...
The Attack on Colorado Springs Didn’t Happen in a Vacuum – TIME
This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. A bullet doesn’t make a sound. It...
Surveys show differing attitudes toward monkeypox vaccination – CIDRAP
Men who have sex with men (MSM) account for the vast majority of US monkeypox cases, and a new survey shows urban versus rural MSM have significantly different attitudes about vaccination...
Queering the Good Death – YES! Magazine
Before he met Charles Koehler—and before he married a woman, got divorced, and came out—Dennis Hostetler was a college student who needed money. In the summer of 1962 he began working...
Amy Coney Barrett Should Recuse Herself From Gay Rights Case, Say Survivors of Her...
Photo: AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes (AP)Oral arguments in what’s being deemed a potential “free speech blockbuster” case won’t begin until next month, but survivors of People of Praise are already pushing Supreme...
Transgender community faces ‘astronomical gap’ in health-care system, advocates say – National | Globalnews.ca...
Each year as November rolls around, men across Canada begin to grow out a moustache to help raise funds for men’s health.
But for the transgender community, accessing the health-care system...
Minnesota seeks to end blood donation discrimination – Minnesota Reformer
Christopher Johns got into the habit of donating blood when he was in high school.
But after graduation and coming out as gay, he was surprised to learn that blood banks would...
‘Make Dj Gay Again’: Maren Morris Responds To Candace Cameron Bure’s Homophobic Comments –...
Maren Morris, the Country Star, has recently posted a few comments on Instagram, taking a jibe at actress Candace Cameron Bure. The latter had probably made some comments on traditional marriages...
Women Are Often Misdiagnosed With Monkeypox As A Sexually Transmitted Infection – San Diego...
Monkeypox is one of the diseases that is making a lot of news today. And it has been diagnosed in women and people of the third gender. Moreover, the disease spreads...
Perceived attitudes of family and peers toward same-sex marriage as a distal sexual minority...
Marshal MP, Dietz LJ, Friedman MS, Stall R, Smith HA, McGinley J, et al. Suicidality and depression disparities between sexual minority and heterosexual youth: a meta-analytic review. J Adolesc Health. 2011;49:115–23.Article ...
Marjorie Taylor Greene Uses Gay Club Mass Shooting to Lie About Drugs – Yahoo!...
Marjorie Taylor GreeneU.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, known for her anti-LGBTQ+ rants and conspiracy theories, has reached perhaps a new low by using the Colorado Springs mass shooting to spread falsehoods...
Here’s How Rep. Lauren Boebert Smeared LGBTQ People On Social Media Before Offering Prayers...
Boebert's "grooming" comments stem from a growing wave of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric that has coalesced into a right-wing moral panic. Conservatives have repeatedly smeared LGBTQ people and their allies as pedophiles and...
The School-to-Clinic Pipeline – City Journal
In July, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published a 190-page proposal for new rules under...
Anti-transgender legislation resonates on Day of Remembrance – The Associated Press – en Español
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Persistent efforts by North Carolina’s legislature to restrict transgender lives cast a shadow over Callum Bradford as he grew up in Chapel Hill, following him through his...
At least 5 dead, 25 injured in shooting at Colorado Springs gay nightclub Saturday...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - At least five people are dead, and more than two dozen injured after a gunman reportedly opened fire at a Colorado Springs gay nightclub before being...
Health harms of mass shootings ripple across communities – The Connecticut Mirror
A grim and familiar pattern has followed the parade of mass shootings across America. In their aftermath, the nation’s attention focuses on the direct victims of the attacks, the dead and...
President Biden Is Turning 80. Experts Say Age Is More Than a Number. –...
No one can predict how a single individual will fare. The medical report the White House released last year was a summary of findings by the president’s longtime personal physician, Dr....
Political creep: government intrusion in health care – Kevin MD
The American Medical Association (AMA) would have you believe that the biggest threat to the medical profession is “scope creep” – the intrusion of advanced practice providers into medical practice.
The way...
WA advocates highlight health disparities during Trans Awareness Week – The Seattle Times
Transgender community organizations in the Seattle area are marking Trans Awareness Week by highlighting the critical need for improved health care and access to resources. While Washington has made significant strides...
Why Being Gay is a Bigger Challenge for South Asians – DESIblitz
Everybody knows that line from Bend It Like Beckham (2002) where Tony reveals he is gay to Jess and she replies “but you’re Indian”.
Whilst the reaction is funny, it presents the...
WATCH: Leaders hold ribbon cutting ceremony for Behavioral Health Resource Center grand opening –...
November 18, 2022 Video of Leaders hold ribbon cutting ceremony for Behavioral Health Resource Center grand opening
On Nov. 16, 2022, leaders and community partners gathered to celebrate the upcoming grand...
Monkeypox cases on decline, vaccination still encouraged – WRAL News
The initial response to monkeypox was not perfect. Doctors say testing and vaccines were slow to roll-out, but now the vaccine is in greater supply. Health officials across the board say...
In a historic first, Alaskans set to elect 3 LGBTQ lawmakers to state Legislature...
Democrat Andrew Gray is set to represent House District 20, which covers part of East Anchorage, in the Alaska Legislature. An openly gay man, he’s among...
Covid weekly report for Nov. 18: Cases increase statewide and in Marion County –...
This week, there was an increase in average daily Covid cases statewide and in Marion County, and a slight decrease in new cases in Polk County. HOSPITAL CAPACITY As of Friday,...
In a historic first, Alaskans set to elect 3 LGBT lawmakers to state Legislature...
Democrat Andrew Gray is set to represent House District 20, which covers part of East Anchorage, in the Alaska Legislature. An openly gay man, he’s among...
The first gay immigrant in Congress – POLITICO – POLITICO
With help from Jesse Naranjo, Ella Creamer, Rishika Dugyala, Brakkton Booker and Teresa Wiltz
POLITICO illustration/Photo by Getty Images
What’s good, mi gente! This week, the first woman speaker of the House steps...
Equity in Advanced Prostate Cancer Care Begins with Changing the Conversation – Pfizer
Prostate health is not a popular topic of conversation. Even in healthcare settings, patients and providers might be hesitant to discuss prostate health or cancer screening. But talking openly is not...
US State Readies First Anti-Transgender Bill of 2023 – Human Rights Watch
Just one day after the midterm elections in the United States, lawmakers in Tennessee filed bills to ban gender-affirming health care for children in next year’s state legislative session. The bill...
Georgia ranks 3rd nationwide in per capita monkeypox cases. Atlanta is a hotspot –...
Georgia ranks 3rd nationwide in per capita monkeypox cases. Atlanta is a hotspot | Georgia Public Broadcasting ...
Troubled SF Nonprofit Throws Itself a Party As Clients Left in the Lurch –...
EnglishA financially troubled nonprofit relied on by the city for social services threw itself a party earlier this month, honoring the organization’s former CEO while overlooking a client with mental illness...
Sen. Raphael Warnock’s Commitment To Fighting HIV Resonates with LGBTQ Georgians – Georgia Voice
The stakes in the upcoming runoff election for the U.S. Senate are high for members of the LGBTQ community and people living with HIV in Georgia. After defying past mid-term election...