Thousands united Nov. 12 in front of a Mormon temple in Midtown and marched to Columbus Circle to protest Proposition Hate, er…Proposition 8.
A new generation of activists unites via the Internet. Log on and Join the Impact.
A multimedia SAGE campaign makes LGBT elders more visible—even on New York’s subways and buses.
How will his departure affect LGBT issues in Albany?
Industry leaders powwow to raise questions about the persecution of clubland.
Anti-gay hate crimes are on the rise across the U.S.—homophobic incidents have even surfaced at a local production of play “Judy and Me.”
Spurred by a gay marriage ban in California, simultaneous protests were
held Nov. 14 across the nation. In Manhattan, 4,000 rallied at City Hall.
Next up: A Dec. 10 event called A Day Without a Gay.
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By Joelle L. Quartini
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell isn’t just in the military, according to a New York City Health Department study released Wednesday.
Four out of 10 New York City men who have sex with men (MSM) don’t disclose their sexual orientation to their doctors, which health officials say is an opportunity missed for HIV testing and prevention.
“It’s a combination of people being less comfortable with the term gay or homosexual, and discrimination they perceive they will experience if they are open about their sexual experiences and attractions,” Dr. Elizabeth Begier, the city’s director of HIV epidemiology, told the New York Daily News.
The study results were published in The Archives of Internal Medicine,
The study of 452 men living in New York City found that MSM were reluctant to volunteer the information, with only 61 percent reporting disclosing their sexual orientation to their doctors.
Men who identify as homosexual though, had a 78 percent disclosure rate.
Richard Burns, executive director of the LGBT Center, said the results were not surprising. “In our work with LGBT clients, we know that fear of discrimination causes gay men to avoid prostate cancer screening and lesbians and transgender persons to delay gynecological and urological screenings, placing them at increased risk for late detection and delayed treatment,” he said in a statement.
“LGBT clients often do not share their identifies with mental health and drug treatment providers to avoid being labeled or mistreated by other patients or the providers themselves.”
The Centers for Disease Control adopted national guidelines in 2006 that recommend health-care providers offer HIV testing to all patients between the ages of 13 and 64.
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