When Public Schools Peddle Ex-Gay Propaganda | Gay Rights | Change.org

According to teachthefacts.org, the flier told students that if they were LGBT or knew someone who identified as LGBT, that they could change. Oh, and of course, that scientists have yet to discover the "gay center of the brain." ..... WHENEVER ANY YOUNG GAY/LESBIAN DECIDES TO END THEIR LIVES VIA SUICIDE--GROUPS LIKE THIS NEED TO KNOW THAT THEY HAVE BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS!! Any educator who would participate in such a "rehabilitation" activity--should permanently loose ...

Another hundred trans-related blogs « Sugar and Slugs

Gender Identity Disorder Reform — “GID Reform Advocates are medical professionals, caregivers, scholars, researchers, students, human rights advocates, and members of the transgender, bisexual, lesbian and gay communities and their allies who .... Just Another View — “[This blog] actually started out of the idea to tell weird ideas and stories with no particular value to anyone but the longer this blog exists the more I turned towards LGBT-topics and gender studies. ...

Canada's healthcare system is homophobic, says group

"When Health Canada or anyone talks about health issues in the gay/lesbian/bisexual communities they're talking about HIV/AIDS and the reality is there is more GLBT people in this country who die of suicide each year than die from AIDS, ... It may therefore not have been possible to file a human rights complaint on the health discrimination transgender, transsexual, and genderqueer people face. A Quebec government report on discrimination against the LGBT community in ...

Perspective: A Grand Challenge to Academic Medicine: Speak O ...

Although the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) population has been identified as suffering from health care disparities and oppression, the medical community and its affiliated organizations have done little to lobby .... It is through this biopsychosocial lens that a physician learns to see and appreciate the social context, but we take it a step further in medicine by teaching physicians to intervene (to be activists) when the social context is oppressive. ...

GLBT News Summary for Progressives . . . . . Ray's List: GLBT ...

Members of Lambda Istanbul, which works for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and transsexual (LGBTT) people, told Human Rights Watch that in the last month Ebru had asked the Prosecutor's Office for protection from the man who had beaten her on several .... Orman, who is openly lesbian, has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to LGBT equality, and she will be honored with the Vito Russo Award at the GLAAD Media Awards in New York on March 28, 2009. ...