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Fab Jab: LGBT Community Steps Up To Get Vaccinated At Pride Centre

Fab Jab: LGBT Community Steps Up To Get Vaccinated At Pride Centre | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

A dedicated pop-up vaccination clinic set up this week at the newly opened Victorian Pride Centre on Fitzroy Street is hoping to break those last barriers and get the LGBTQI community vaccinated.

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Buckeye Ranch LGBTQ mental health campaign to reduce stigma for youth

Buckeye Ranch LGBTQ mental health campaign to reduce stigma for youth | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

The campaign is aimed at encouraging dialogue about mental health within the LGBTQ+ youth community, while reducing stigma and providing resources.

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Rachel Levine’s Confirmation to Health Post Marks Transgender Milestone

Rachel Levine’s Confirmation to Health Post Marks Transgender Milestone | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

The vote was 52 to 48, largely along party lines, with GOP Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine joining all 50 Democrats.

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Greater Manchester launches next phase of ambitious campaign aimed at ending all new cases of HIV

Greater Manchester launches next phase of ambitious campaign aimed at ending all new cases of HIV | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Real people from Greater Manchester who either live with HIV or are actively preventing it feature in a new vide

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Pennsylvania should model Philly’s inclusive health care

Pennsylvania should model Philly’s inclusive health care | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

A student argues that Philadelphia has done a good job advancing LGBTQ health care, and the rest of the state should follow suit.

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Why Choose Inspire Recovery For Meth Addiction Help?

Why Choose Inspire Recovery For Meth Addiction Help? | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

They are a safe and affirming space for the LGBTQIA+ Community Suffering from Crystal Meth Addiction. Inspire Recovery provides a safe space for you to process and grow from your experiences. You’ll be supported by mental health professionals who are trained and committed to your success. Their program takes an holistic and creative approach to addiction treatment, inspiring pride in the people that come to us in need of individualized care.

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Sex Ed That Excludes LGBTQ+ People Is Tied To Worse Health Outcomes

Sex Ed That Excludes LGBTQ+ People Is Tied To Worse Health Outcomes | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

In September, the Texas Board of Education rejected a proposed sex education curriculum that would have taught middle and high school students about sexual orientation and gender identity.

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Opinion: For trans, non-binary folk, health care anxieties can make COVID-19 worse

Opinion: For trans, non-binary folk, health care anxieties can make COVID-19 worse | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Now more than ever is the time for health care providers to take steps to be as inclusive as possible.

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How Grindr Is Helping Tackle Ghana’s Hidden HIV Epidemic

How Grindr Is Helping Tackle Ghana’s Hidden HIV Epidemic | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

In a country where homosexuality is criminalised, doctors are using gay dating apps to find men whose health – and freedom – is at risk

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San Francisco Covid-19 response may be guided by 1980s HIV experience

San Francisco Covid-19 response may be guided by 1980s HIV experience | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

San Francisco's residents recall what it was like to live in the city that was once the center of the HIV epidemic. The memories stayed with them, and are informing their response to Covid-19.

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Meet The Queer Activist Teaching Sex Ed to LGBTQ Appalachian Youth

Meet The Queer Activist Teaching Sex Ed to LGBTQ Appalachian Youth | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

"Bad sex education for queer kids it's so violent and erasing and makes kids in rural places feel even more isolated."

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Judge sides with transgender Alaska librarian in health case

Judge sides with transgender Alaska librarian in health case | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

An Alaska health care plan that has excluded coverage of gender-confirming surgery for transgender employees is discriminatory, a federal judge ruled Friday. 

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South Side Chicago Organization Puts Family Touch on HIV Treatment and PrEP Adherence Support

South Side Chicago Organization Puts Family Touch on HIV Treatment and PrEP Adherence Support | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

With a “for us, by us” approach, Brothers Health Collective in Chicago reaches a community often missed by larger organizations.

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Texas nonprofit launches free sexual healthcare program for LGBTQ community

Texas nonprofit launches free sexual healthcare program for LGBTQ community | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

A new statewide program aims to provide the LGBTQ community with comprehensive sexual health services.

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Why an LGBTQ recovery house is needed in Maine

Why an LGBTQ recovery house is needed in Maine | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

"The presence of an all-genders LGBTQ specific recovery house would reflect the larger value of inclusion that I believe has been cultivating for decades, as well as meet the needs of a marginalized community," Connor Bry writes.

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Rachel Levine Is First Openly Transgender Official Confirmed by Senate

Rachel Levine Is First Openly Transgender Official Confirmed by Senate | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

The Senate vote, 52 to 48, followed a contentious confirmation hearing that became a flash point in the battle over transgender rights.

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How state health leaders are reaching the LGBTQ community disproportionately impacted by COVID-19

How state health leaders are reaching the LGBTQ community disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

The LGBTQ community is hurting in so many ways in North Carolina. The pandemic has disproportionately impacted the community's mental, physical and financial health.

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Seattle physician improves healthcare for LGBTQ patients

Seattle physician improves healthcare for LGBTQ patients | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

A family doctor with the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle is helping providers understand health disparities to create equitable care for the LGBTQ community. Faculty physician Dr. Kevin Wang’s personal story of struggle inspired his journey to improve the quality of medical care for LGBTQ patients.

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Introducing Inspire Recovery's LGBTQIA+ Drug & Alcohol Rehab

Introducing Inspire Recovery's LGBTQIA+ Drug & Alcohol Rehab | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

All of their staff are put through LGBTQIA+ cultural awareness training before starting to work with clients. Inspire Recovery provides a training called "The Human Experience," for all staff. This training includes topics on Gender, Sexual Orientation and Anatomy + More. This is a comprised of comprehensive workshops that usually takes up to 1 year to go through this training.

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California requires COVID tracking in LGBTQ community under bill signed by Newsom

California requires COVID tracking in LGBTQ community under bill signed by Newsom | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a measure requiring health providers to track COVID-19 and all other communicable diseases in the LGBTQ community, a step that advocates called crucial for catching outbreaks early and combating stigma in the public-health system. SB932 by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, will mandate that health workers ask patients infected with the coronavirus and about 90 other diseases about their sexual orientation an

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Two Baltimore-area health care providers refuse to let pandemic halt their care for transgender patients

Elyse Pine and Deborah Dunn have bonded over their devotion to caring for young transgender patients at Chase Brexton Health Care. Over the last four months, they've thrown themselves into making sure those patients receive vital services amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Pennsylvania's top doc is 'calm in the eye of the COVID-19 storm'

Pennsylvania's top doc is 'calm in the eye of the COVID-19 storm' | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Dr. Rachel Levine, the Keystone State’s secretary of health, is earning high marks for her response to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Music City PrEP Steps Up Support of Nashville LGBT Chamber

Music City PrEP Steps Up Support of Nashville LGBT Chamber | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

The Nashville LGBT Chamber announced today that Rod Bragg Music City PrEP Clinic has bolstered its investment in the Nashville LGBT Chamber becoming the first-ever Titanium level member. Previously a Gold member, Music City PrEP’s Titanium Membership highlights the tremendous recent growth of the Nashville LGBT Chamber, which now represents over 500 Nashville area small …

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How This Lesbian Couple Cared for the First AIDS Patients in Salt Lake City

How This Lesbian Couple Cared for the First AIDS Patients in Salt Lake City | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Kristin Ries and Maggie Snyder met and fell in love while caring for people living with HIV in Salt Lake City. Here, they tell the story of the early epidemic in a very religious town.

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Campaign aiming to end transmissions and stigma of HIV launches in Manchester

Campaign aiming to end transmissions and stigma of HIV launches in Manchester | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

It is hoped the campaign will help highlight the importance of regularly getting tested for HIV

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