Mar 16, 2023 · The increasing expansion of a global LGBT rights movement suffered a setback during the 1980s, as the gay male community was decimated by the Aids epidemic, demands for compassion and medical funding led to renewed coalitions between men and women as well as angry street theatre by groups like Aids Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) and Queer ...

Sexual orientation is a component of identity that includes sexual and emotional attraction to another person and the behavior and/or social affiliation that may result from this attraction. Gender identity is one’s self-identification as male, female, or an alternative gender.

A Clockwork Lavender: Sexology, Psychology and the LGBTQ+ Community Investigates scientific understandings about sexual orientation and gender identity over the course of the 20th century, spotlighting the researchers and activists whose work had a profound impact on the lives of countless LGBTQ+ individuals.

The National LGBT Health Education Center provides educational programs, resources, and consultation to health care organizations with the goal of optimizing quality, cost-effective health care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. The center is a part of The Fenway Institute, the research, training and health policy ...

LGBT-Inclusive Sex Education Means Healthier Youth and Safer Schools Comprehensive sex education is critical to young people’s sexual health and benefits all students, including LGBT youth. Center for American Progress, June 2013

The LGBT Aging Project was founded in 2001 by a group of advocates from both the aging service network and the LGBT community who recognized that LGBT elders are invisible to mainstream elder service providers, and that older LGBT people are invisible within the LGBT community as well. LGBT National Health & Aging Center

Oct 29, 2008 · Sexual orientation refers to an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions to men, women, or both sexes.

The Wayne F. Placek Award, Roy Scrivner Research Small Grant Award, Distinguished Student Contribution, Health Research with Diverse Populations, the Spring Clara Mayo Grants Program, Point Foundation LGBT Scholarships, Lesbian Health Fund Call for Submissions and other awards, grants and financial support pertaining to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender …

Report on experiences at school among LGBT youth using a large, national convenience sample. By the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). Sexual identity, sex of sexual contacts and health-risk behaviors among students in grades 9–12 — Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance, selected sites, United States, 2001–2009. Full report ...

El sexo se asigna al nacer, hace referencia al estado biológico de una persona como hombre o mujer, y se encuentra asociado principalmente con atributos físicos tales como los cromosomas, la prevalencia hormonal y la anatomía interna y externa.