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    Discuss, Present, Create, Debate

    • Discuss: Choose one or two resources listed in this chapter, and discuss them in relation to what you have learned about LGBTQ+ health and wellness.
    • Present: Choose a key topic or event found in this chapter. Then locate one or two resources from the “Quick Dip” and “Deep Dive” sections and develop a presentation for the class. Explain the significance of the topic, and provide additional details that support your explanation.
    • Create: What idea, person, or event from this chapter really moved you? Do more research on that idea, person, or event based on the resources in this chapter. Then, create your own artistic response. Consider writing a poem, drawing a picture, or editing a photograph in a way that demonstrates both what you have learned and how you feel about the issue or person.
    • Debate: Find a partner or split into groups, and choose a topic, idea, or controversy from this chapter. Have each partner or group present an opposing perspective on it. Use at least two of the resources in this chapter to support your argument.

    Quick Dip: Online Resources

    “Accessing Sexual Health Information Online: Use, Motivations, and Consequences for Youth with Different Sexual Orientations,” by Kimberly J. Mitchell, Michele L. Ybarra, Josephine D. Korchmaros, and Joseph G. Kosciw

    Nearly 80 percent of LGBTQ+ youth in an extensive 2014 survey published in Health Education Research (volume 29; https://doi.org/10.1093/her/cyt071) said they seek sexual information online, compared with less than 20 percent for their heterosexual counterparts. Discussions about how youth use the information and accuracy of the information received add to the article’s value.

    Agenda 2030 for LGBTI Health and Well-Being, by the Global Forum on MSM and HIV and OutRight Action International

    Agenda 2030 is the United Nations global effort on sustainability, including health and preventive education. The Global Forum on MSM and OutRight Action International wrote an excellent report in 2017 of how countries and governments can meet these 2030 goals through specific attention to LGBTQ+ people and their needs while addressing the marginalization they face based on sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics. See https://msmgf.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Agenda-2030-for-LGBTI-Health_July-2017.pdf.

    “Health Care for Lesbians and Bisexual Women,” by Committee on Health Care for Underserved Women

    This well-written opinion from practitioners, written in 2012 and reaffirmed in 2021, on gynecologic issues for women who have sex with women covers recommendations for the standards of care for women seeking care in physician’s offices, from mental health considerations to social concerns. It is the standard all ob-gyn physicians need to adhere to for their sexual and gender minority patients. See https://www.acog.org/Clinical-Guidance-and-Publications/Committee-Opinions/Committee-on-Health-Care-for-Underserved-Women/Health-Care-for-Lesbians-and-Bisexual-Women.

    “HIV/AIDS,” from World Health Organization

    The World Health Organization (WHO) is the United Nations organization concerned with public health issues worldwide and is both a health monitoring and data collection agency. Its “HIV/AIDS” web page (https://www.who.int/hiv/en/) provides HIV and AIDS information, and data sets, maps, reports, and charts available on the website highlight the work individual countries are doing to increase access to HIV medications and their prevention efforts.

    “Improving the Health Care of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) People: Understanding and Eliminating Health Disparities,” by Kevin L. Ard and Harvey J. Makadon

    This brief 2012 report covers the disparities in health services and outcomes seen in the LGBTQ+ community, as well as specific areas of concern in the population. It provides basic education for understanding LGBTQ+ communities and specific concerns within those populations, discusses differences in health care among LGBTQ+ people of color, and lists steps for clinicians and health care providers to take to provide culturally competent care. The report is cited by numerous authors and used as a reference link from many governmental websites about LGBTQ+ health care. See https://www.lgbthealtheducation.org/wp-content/uploads/Improving-the-Health-of-LGBT-People.pdf.

    “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Health Services in the United States: Origins, Evolution, and Contemporary Landscape,” by Alexander J. Martos, Patrick A. Wilson, and Ilan H. Meyer

    Covering the history of community-based health services within the LGBTQ+ community, this article provides insight into the future success or failure of such clinics, which have played a huge role in the field of LGBTQ+ health. The 2017 article in PLoS One (volume 12, number 7; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0180544) was funded as part of a long-term study from the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. government’s primary biomedical and public health agency.

    Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health, from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides a website highlighting health issues among the LGBTQ+ populations (https://www.cdc.gov/lgbthealth/). It links to publications, statistics, data sets, and news from a wide variety of journals, government agencies, and other sources. The CDC is the preeminent U.S. government agency on illness and health.

    LGBT Mental Health Syllabus, from Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry

    This educational website (http://www.aglp.org/gap/) is for people training in psychology and psychiatry and a source of information for any mental health trainee or practitioner on issues surrounding service to LGBTQ+ individuals. It includes a history of treatment of LGBTQ+ people and primers on transgender and intersex patients.

    National LGBT Health Education Center, from Fenway Institute

    This website (https://www.lgbthealtheducation.org/) provides free access to numerous publications highlighting health care concerns and issues of the LGBTQ+ population for health care organizations and service providers. Translations of their publications in Spanish and other languages are also available. The Fenway Institute is the world’s largest LGBTQ+ health care, research, and education organization.

    “Sexual and Gender Minority Health: What We Know and What Needs to Be Done,” by Kenneth H. Mayer, Judith B. Bradford, Harvey J. Makadon, Ron Stall, Hilary Goldhammer, and Stewart Landers

    This 2008 article in the American Journal of Public Health (volume 98, number 6; https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2007.127811) offers a strong summary of known disparities in health outcomes in the LGBTQ+ health field, research into specific health topics, and a discussion of what directions LGBTQ+ health care needs to move in to meet the needs of clients. The authors, well-known experts in LGBTQ+ health care, are among the authors of the Fenway Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and TransgenderHealth.

    State-Sponsored Homophobia, from International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association

    This annual report on the laws criminalizing gender and sexuality around the world also has articles focusing on particular countries and regions. Data sets used to generate the report can be accessed at the report’s website (https://ilga.org/state-sponsored-homophobia-report). The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association is the world’s foremost LGBTQ+ metaorganization and holds special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

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