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LGBTQ+ health outcomes are strongly influenced by social support networks, peers, and family. One example of a support network now available to some LGBTQ+ youth include Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs), which are clubs that work to improve the climate for LGBTQ+ youth at schools and educate students and staff about issues faced by the LGBTQ+ ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Gay Nurses Alliance (GNA) was a professional association founded to promote the interests of gay and lesbian nurses and their patients in the United States. It was the first nursing organization in America with this mission and existed from 1973 through the early 1980s.
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 ...
This is higher than the 9% of the U.S. population that abuse substances. In addition, 25% of LGBT individuals abuse alcohol compared to the 5-10% of the general population. [ 3 ] Lesbian and bisexual youth have a higher percentage of substance use problems as compared to sexual minority males and heterosexual females. [ 4 ]
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.