Category Archives: LGBT Health

Let’s Just Be Real. Let’s Be Ourselves

Posted on March 4, 2014 by monashattell

Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. I have been told that I “keep my cards close to my chest”, which I assume means that I don’t reveal a lot about myself – I withhold myself or … Continue reading →

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Sports Matters!

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Peggy L Chinn

We are, at this very moment in time, starting to see the end of suffering in silence for LGBTQ athletes.  This landmark moment is marked by the 2014 winter Olympics in Russia, a country that has life-threatening laws against LGBT … Continue reading →

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Rainbow Health Conference in Toronto – February 5-7, 2014

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Peggy L Chinn

This just in from  Anna Travers, Director of Rainbow Health Ontario!  Registration is open until January 22! We are still taking registrations and the hotel is offering guaranteed rates until January 22nd.  Toronto is a wonderfully gay friendly city and … Continue reading →

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Sexual Minorities and the Crisis of Legitimation in Medicine

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Thomas Lawrence Long

More than thirty years on from the first appearance in print of what we in North America now name HIV/AIDS (or SIDA in other parts of the globe), a recent report of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies … Continue reading →

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Marriage and Health

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Peggy L Chinn

Since the landmark announcement by President Obama in support of same-sex marriage, just about every media outlet has carried some form of coverage addressing the issue.  Here we are interested in exploring the connection between marriage and health, since in … Continue reading →

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