AWARENESS WEEK '09 POSTERS AND POST CARDS 

                 

As part of our efforts to promote LGBT Health Awareness Week, we have created promotional posters and postcards that are available as hard copies and in PDF format for downloading. To order materials fax this completed form to the Coalition at (202) 393-2241.   Additionally, you can find all fact sheets and resource links in this download center.   Thanks for helping promote LGBT health!

Poster | Postcard

         

                                                          

 

EXPECT MORE

As part of our campaign to educate LGBT communities about health issues that affect our lives in significant ways, we have prepared fact sheets - each addressing one of the 13 specific LGBT health concerns discussed in the EXPECT MORE series.

Access to Healthcare | Aging | Aging Policy | Cancer | Hepatitis | Intimate Partner Violence 1 | Intimate Partner Violence 2 | Mental Health | Mental Health Policy | Sexual Health | Smoking| Smoking Policy | Substance Abuse | Transmen's Health | Transwomen's Health | Youth Health | Youth Policy

GENERAL LGBT HEALTH

It can be hard to talk about intimate life with anyone. To make sure the LGBT community stays healthy, we need to help our health care providers help us by talking openly and honestly about our lives and who we are. Coming out is crucial to enabling our health care providers help keep us healthy. We need to come out to our providers about our sexual orientation or gender identity. We need to let them know when we are fighting depression, challenging substance use, and trying to manage our sexual health.

Six Important Topics

Knowledge is powerful tool in keeping us healthy. Provided below are fact sheets on six important topics that we all need to talk about with our health care providers. An informational sheet on topics to discuss with LGBT patients is also available for health care providers.

6 Topics Summary | Lesbian and Bisexual Women | Gay and Bisexual Men

Transwomen | Transman | Providers

WEBLINKS

We have provided a complete list of all links referenced for easy access.

10 Things Gay Men Should Discuss With Their Health Care Providers	Mental Health Information Center	The Mautner Project
10 Things Lesbians Should Discuss With Their Health Care Providers	MSM: Clinician's Guide to Incorporating Sexual Risk Assessment in Routine Visits	The National Coalition for LGBT Health The National Coalition for LGBT Health
Advocates for Youth	My Pyramid	The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Alcohol Screening	National Association of Lesbian & Gay Addiction Professionals	The National Youth Advocacy Coalition
American Cancer Society	National Association of LGBT Community Centers	The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S.
American Psychological Association	National LGBT Tobacco Control Network	Trans Health Conference
American Social Health Association	National Center for Transgender Equality	YouthResource
Anal Pap Smear Info	National Coalition Against Domestic Violence	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Gay and Lesbian Association	National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-779-SAFE
Gender Education and Advocacy	Nationwide Listing of Free and Low-cost Hepatitis Clinics
Guidelines: Creating A Safe Clinical Environment For LGBTI Patients	OutProud
HCV Advocate	Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
Healthy People 2010 Companion Document for LGBT Health	SAGE USA
Hepatitis Information	The Lesbian and Gay Aging Issues Network
International Foundation for Gender Education	The LGBT Aging Project