| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
Foreword / Rachel L. Levine, MD -- Introduction / Adrian Shanker -- Youth -- Human Rights and Health for LGBT Youth / Ryan Thoreson -- Informed Consent for Intersex Children / Katharine B. Dalke -- Navigating Pediatric Care for Transgender Youth / Alisa Bowman -- Not Your Average Sex Talk / Emmett Patterson -- Resiliency for Homeless Queer Youth / Arin Jayes -- Beyond Duct Tape: Binding for Transmasculine Youth / Preston Heldibridle -- Surviving Suicide / Tyler Titus -- Young Adults -- Sex and Safety in the Digital Age / Jack Harrison-Quintana -- Living Proudly, Living Longer: Advocating for Queer Spaces to be Tobacco Free / Adrian Shanker and Annemarie Shankweiler -- Queer Family Planning: A Remedy to Depression / Kate Luxion -- Social Service Navigation for the LGBT Community / Anthony Crisci -- That Ass Tho! Anal Health for the LGBT Community / Adrian Shanker -- Addiction and Recover in the Queer Community / Atticus Ranck -- Middle-Age Adults -- Without Wincing or Clenching: Bisexual People's Experiences with Health Care Professionals / Robyn Ochs -- Gender, Cancer, and Me / Liz Margolies -- "Laura is a Transgender. Didn't the Surgeons Do an Amazing Job?" / Laura A. Jacobs -- Tobacco-Free Queers: Prime Time to Quit / Scout -- Challenging HIV Stigma / Sean Strub -- Older Adults -- Archiving AIDS: Intergenerational Education About an Epidemic / Chris Bartlett -- Organizing against Social Isolation: Older Lesbians in Rural Communities / Kat Carrick and Ntlotleng Mabena -- Caregiving Concerns for LGBT Older Adults / Liz Bradbury -- Housing and Health for LGBT Older Adults / Imani Woody -- Grieving Together: LGBT Bereavement Support Groups / Justin Sabia-Tanis -- Conclusion / Adrian Shanker -- Afterword / Kate Kendell |
| Summary |
"LGBT people pervasively experience health disparities, affecting every part of their bodies and lives. Yet many are still grappling to understand the mutually reinforcing health care challenges that lead LGBT people to experience worsened health outcomes. Bodies and Barriers informs health care professionals, students in health professions, policymakers, and fellow activists about these challenges, providing insights and a road map for action that could improve queer health. Through artfully articulated, data-informed essays by twenty-six well-known and emerging queer activists-including Alisa Bowman, Jack Harrison-Quintana, Liz Margolies, Robyn Ochs, Sean Strub, Justin Tanis, Ryan Thoreson, Imani Woody, and more-Bodies and Barriers illuminates the ubiquitous health challenges LGBT people experience throughout their lives. The book challenges conventional wisdom about health care delivery. It probes deeply into the roots of the health disparities and worsened health outcomes that the LGBT community face and empowers activists with crucial information to fight for health equity through clinical, behavioral, and policy changes. The activist contributors in Bodies and Barriers look for tangible improvements-their stories are lessons learned for caring health care professionals, sympathetic policymakers, and motivated activists-drawing lessons from the history of HIV/AIDS in America and from struggles against health care bias and discrimination. At a galvanizing moment when LGBT people have experienced great strides in lived equality, but our health as a community still lags, here is an indispensable blueprint for change by some of the most passionate and important health activists in the LGBT movement today. LGBT people pervasively experience health disparities, affecting every part of their bodies and lives. Yet many are still grappling to understand the mutually reinforcing health care challenges that lead LGBT people to experience worsened health outcomes. Bodies and Barriers informs health care professionals, students in health professions, policymakers, and fellow activists about these challenges, providing insights and a road map for action that could improve queer health. Through artfully articulated, data-informed essays by twenty-six well-known and emerging queer activists-including Alisa Bowman, Jack Harrison-Quintana, Liz Margolies, Robyn Ochs, Sean Strub, Justin Tanis, Ryan Thoreson, Imani Woody, and more-Bodies and Barriers illuminates the ubiquitous health challenges LGBT people experience throughout their lives. The book challenges conventional wisdom about health care delivery. It probes deeply into the roots of the health disparities and worsened health outcomes that the LGBT community face and empowers activists with crucial information to fight for health equity through clinical, behavioral, and policy changes. The activist contributors in Bodies and Barriers look for tangible improvements-their stories are lessons learned for caring health care professionals, sympathetic policymakers, and motivated activists-drawing lessons from the history of HIV/AIDS in America and from struggles against health care bias and discrimination. At a galvanizing moment when LGBT people have experienced great strides in lived equality, but our health as a community still lags, here is an indispensable blueprint for change by some of the most passionate and important health activists in the LGBT movement today"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource, title from digital title page (OverDrive ebooks, viewed on March 11, 2021) |
| Subject |
Sexual minorities -- Health and hygiene -- United States
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Sexual minorities -- Medical care -- United States
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Gay people -- Health and hygiene
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Medicine, Preventive.
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Public health.
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Homosexuality.
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Bisexuality.
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Preventive Medicine
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Public Health
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Homosexuality
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Bisexuality
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public health.
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homosexuality.
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bisexuality.
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Public health
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Medicine, Preventive
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Homosexuality
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Bisexuality
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Sexual minorities -- Health and hygiene
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Gays -- Health and hygiene
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shanker, Adrian, editor.
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Levine, Rachel Leland, 1957- writer of foreword.
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Kendell, Kate, writer of afterword.
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| ISBN |
9781629638010 |
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1629638013 |
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