Key LGBTQ+ Resources

 

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/

• 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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