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General Information About LGBTQ+ People and Issues
- Human Rights Campaign (HRC)
www.hrc.org
- National Gay & Lesbian Task Force
www.ngltf.org
- National Center for Transgender Equality
transequality.org
- Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)
www.pflag.org
National LGBTQ+ Health Initiatives and Organizations
- National Healthcare Equality Index (HRC’s annual hospital survey)
www.hrc.org/hei
- Gay & Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA)
www.glma.org
- American Medical Association Advisory Committee on LGBTQ+ Issues
www.ama-assn.org/member-groups-sections/advisory-committee-lgbtq-issues
- The Fenway Institute
https://fenwayhealth.org/the-fenway-institute/
- Straight for Equality in Healthcare (PFLAG)
www.straightforequality.org/healthcare
Select LGBTQ+ Health Publications
- The Joint Commission’s Advancing Effective Communication, Cultural Competence, and Patient- and Family-Centered Care for the
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Community: A Field Guide
www.jointcommission.org/lgbt/
- The American Health Layers Association’s Revisiting Your Hospital’s Visitation Policy
www.healthlawyers.org/hlresources/PI/InfoSeries/Pages/RevisitingYourHospital'sVisitationPolicy.aspx
- Department of Health & Human Services LGBT health webpages
www.hhs.gov/secretary/about/lgbthealth.html
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Top Health Issues for LGBT Populations: Information &
Resources Kit
http://store.samhsa.gov/product/Top-Health-Issues-for-LGBT-Populations/SMA12-4684
- Institute of Medicine’s The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: Building a Foundation for Better
Understanding
http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2011/The-Health-of-Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-and-Transgender-People.aspx
- The Fenway Institute’s Improving the Health Care of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) People: Understanding and
Eliminating Health Disparities
www.lgbthealtheducation.org/publications/fenway-guide-to-lgbt-health/#rcell1921
- LGBTQ+ Cultures: What Health Care Professionals Need to Know About Sexual & Gender Diversity, Michele J. Eliason et al.
https://www.nursingcenter.com/upload/journals/documents/9781496343130.html
- Kaiser Permanente Provider’s Handbook on Culturally Competent Care: LGBT Population
https://www.madisonstreetpress.com/cgi- bin/shop.shtml?id=25
- Gay & Lesbian Medical Association’s Clinical Guidelines for Care of LGBT Patients
www.glma.org/_data/n_0001/resources/live/
Welcoming Environment.pdf
- Lambda Legal’s When Health Care Isn’t Caring
www.lambdalegal.org/publications/when- health-care-isnt-caring
- CAP Report on LGBT Health Disparities
www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/12/
lgbt_health_disparities.html
Information and Materials for Creating a Welcoming Environment
- American Cancer Society (brochures on LGBT cancer & smoking)
www.cancer.org, or contact local ACS office
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) Health Access Project (posters and protocols)
www.glbthealth.org
- Transgender Law Center (tips for welcoming transgender patients)
transgenderlawcenter.org
Population- and Issue-Specific LGBTQ+ Health Information
- American Family Physician, “Primary Care for Lesbians and Bisexual Women,” Sally Mravcak, MD
www.aafp.org/afp/20060715/279.html
- “Primary Care for Gay/Bisexual Men & Other Men Who Have Sex With Men: Best Practices 2011,” The Fenway Institute
conference
www.fenwayhealth.org/site/PageServer?pagename=FCHC_ins_HIV_Prevention2011
- National Gay & Lesbian Task Force’s Bisexual Health: An Introduction and Model Practices for HIV/STI Prevention Programming
www.thetaskforce.org/reports_and_research/bisexual_health
- World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
wpath.org
- University of California, San Francisco’s Center of Excellence for Transgender Health (primary care protocols)
transhealth.ucsf.edu
- American Psychological Association Division 44
www.apadivision44.org
- National LGBT Tobacco Control Network
www.lgbttobacco.org
- National LGBT Cancer Network
www.cancer-network.org/
Information for/about LGBTQ+ Youth, Families, Elders, Employees and Service-members
- Human Rights Campaign’s report Growing Up LGBT in America
www.hrc.org/youth#.T9USGXG82EA
- The Trevor Project (suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth to age 24)
www.thetrevorproject.org
- Family Acceptance Project (resources for families of LGBT youth)
familyproject.sfsu.edu
- Family Equality Council (resources for LGBT families)
www.familyequality.org
- National Resource Center on LGBT Aging
www.lgbtagingcenter.org
- National LGBT Health and Aging Center’s The Aging & Health Report: Disparities & Resilience Among LGBT Older
Adults
caringandaging.org
- Gen Silent (film about LGBT seniors)
www.theclowdergroup.com/gensilent
- Human Rights Campaign’s Degrees of Equality (report on LGBT people in the workplace)
www.hrc.org/resources/entry/degrees-of-equality
- Out & Equal (national LGBT workplace advocacy and support)
www.outandequal.org
- New England Journal of Medicine, “Health Hazards of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’”Kenneth
Katz, MD
www.medpagetoday.com/upload/2010/12/1/nejmp1012496.pdf
- Outserve—SLDN (Servicemembers Legal Defense Network—representation, advocacy and services for LGBT servicemembers,
veterans and their families)
www.sldn.org
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