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Various issues in medicine relate to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people. According to the US Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA), besides HIV/AIDS, issues related to LGBTQ health include breast and cervical cancer, hepatitis, mental health, substance use disorders, alcohol use, tobacco use, depression, access to care for transgender persons, issues surrounding ...
Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists – group of individuals, organizations, and congregations which advocate full LGBT-inclusion in Baptist churches; BAGLY – organization for LGBTQ+ youth in Greater Boston; Bash Back – network of anarchist and anti-authoritarian queer projects; Bay Area Bi+ & Pan Network – organization for ...
The American Nurses Association (ANA) is a 501(c)(6) professional organization to advance and protect the profession of nursing. It started in 1896 as the Nurses Associated Alumnae and was renamed the American Nurses Association in 1911. [3] It is based in Silver Spring, Maryland [4] and Jennifer Mensik Kennedy [2] is the current president.
The American Nurses Association (ANA) includes advocacy in its definition of nursing: Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals ...
Global LGBTQI+ refugee support and advocacy: Active Rainbow Sash: 1998: Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) 1979: Active Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) 1993: Merged into OutServe-SLDN: Society for Human Rights: 1924: Dissolved Soulforce: 1998: StartOut: 2009: Active Sylvia Rivera Law Project: 2002: Legal aid: Active The Ace ...
Fran Drescher, (born 1957, Flushing, New York) is an outspoken healthcare advocate and LGBT rights activist. [348] Mason J. Dunn (born 1985), American lawyer, educator, and LGBTQ+ rights advocate based in Massachusetts. [349] John Duran [350] Sarah Kate Ellis (born 1971), President & CEO of GLAAD. [351]
A common complaint among disabled LGBTQ+ people is that the LGBTQ+ community does not discuss disability, and the disabled community does not discuss queer identities. This is particularly an issue among the LGBTQ+ movements in countries such as China [14] and Nepal. [38] Within the LGBTQ+ community, accessibility remains an important issue.
The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) is a nonprofit social equality organization founded in 2003 by transgender activist Mara Keisling in Washington, D.C. [5] The organization works primarily in the areas of policy advocacy and media activism with the aim of advancing the equality of transgender people in the United States. [6]