Key LGBT Health Resources
General information about LGBT people and issues:
- Human Rights Campaign
- National Gay & Lesbian Task Force
- National Center for Transgender Equality
- Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays
National LGBT health initiatives and organizations:
- Healthcare Equality Index (HRC’s annual hospital survey)
- UCSF Center for LGBT Health & Equity
- Gay & Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA)
- American Medical Association GLBT Advisory Committee
- American Medical Students Association Gender & Sexuality Committee
- National LGBT Health Coalition
- Straight for Equality in Healthcare (PFLAG)
- Fenway Institute
- World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
- National LGBT Cancer Network
Selected LGBT health publications:
- Joint Commission LGBT Field Guide
- HHS LGBT health pages
- Healthy People 2020 LGBT pages
- Institute of Medicine report The Health of LGBT People
- Fenway Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Health, American College of Physicians
- LGBTQ Cultures: What Health Care Professionals Need to Know About Sexual & Gender Diversity, Michele J. Eliason et al. (online text with nursing CE credits)
- Kaiser Permanente Provider’s Handbook on Culturally Competent Care: LGBT Population
- Clinical Guidelines for Care of LGBT Patients, Gay & Lesbian Medical Association
- When Health Care Isn’t Caring, Lambda Legal
- CAP Report on LGBT Health Disparities
Information & materials for creating a welcoming environment:
- American Cancer Society (brochures on LGBT cancer & smoking): contact local ACS office
- GLBT Health Access Project (posters and protocols)
- Transgender Law Center (tips for welcoming transgender patients)
Population- and issue-specific LGBT health information:
- Primary Care for Lesbians and Bisexual Women, Sally Mravcak, MD
- Lesbian Health 101: A Clinician’s Guide, Patty Robertson, MD & Sue Dibble, DNSc, eds.
- Primary Care for Gay/Bisexual Men & Other MSM, Fenway Institute conference
- Optimizing Primary Care for Men Who Have Sex with Men, Harvey Makadon, MD & Ken Mayer, MD
- UCSF Anal Cancer Screening Information
- Bisexual Health: An Introduction & Model Practices
- Bisexual Invisibility Report, SF Human Rights Commission
- UCSF Center of Excellence for Transgender Health
- Trans Care Project, Vancouver, Canada
- Endocrine Society Guidelines for Treatment of Transsexual Persons
- American Psychological Association Division 44
- National LGBT Tobacco Control Network
Information for/about LGBT youth, families, elders, and servicemembers:
- HRC Family Project (fostering, adoption & school initiatives)
- Family Acceptance Project (resources for families of LGBT youth)
- Groundspark (materials about family diversity)
- Family Equality Council (resources for LGBT families)
- COLAGE (children of LGBTQ parents)
- The Trevor Project (suicide hotline for LGBTQ youth)
- National Resource Center on LGBT Aging
- Gen Silent (film about LGBT seniors)
- Service members Legal Defense Network
