List of LGBT medical organizations
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List of LGBT medical organizations, consisting of lesbian
Lesbian
Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...
, gay
Gay
Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....
, bisexual
Bisexuality
Bisexuality is sexual behavior or an orientation involving physical or romantic attraction to both males and females, especially with regard to men and women. It is one of the three main classifications of sexual orientation, along with a heterosexual and a homosexual orientation, all a part of the...
, and transgender
Transgender
Transgender is a general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies to vary from culturally conventional gender roles....
(LGBT
LGBT
LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...
) medical professionals, promoting LGBT health, or supportive and affirming of the LGBT community.
Ireland
- Gay Doctors IrelandGay Doctors IrelandGay Doctors Ireland is an organisation of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender physicians and medical students in Ireland. It was founded in 2010 as Ireland's first association for LGBT doctors.-Purpose:...
, an independent grouping of LGBT medical professionals in Ireland. - Gay Men's Health Service, run by the Health Service ExecutiveHealth Service ExecutiveThe Health Service Executive is responsible for the provision of healthcare providing health and personal social services for everyone living in Ireland, with public funds. The Executive was established by the Health Act, 2004 and came into official operation on January 1, 2005...
.
United States
- Association of Gay and Lesbian PsychiatristsAssociation of Gay and Lesbian PsychiatristsThe Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists is an organization that educates and advocates on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender mental health issues.-History:...
- Gay and Lesbian Medical AssociationGay and Lesbian Medical AssociationThe Gay and Lesbian Medical Association works to ensure equality in health care for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals and health care professionals...
- HIV Vaccine Trials NetworkHIV Vaccine Trials NetworkThe HIV Vaccine Trials Network is a non-profit organization which connects physicians and scientists with activists and community educators for the purpose of conducting clinical trials seeking a safe and effective HIV vaccine. Collaboratively, research professionals and laypeople review...
- LGBTI Health SummitLGBTI Health SummitThe LGBTI Health Summits are an opportunity for individuals working for the health of intersex, trans, bisexual, lesbian and gay people to meet and share ideas...
- Rainbow Health InitiativeRainbow Health InitiativeThe Rainbow Health Initiative is a Minnesota-based 5013 organization dedicated to "improving the health of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Minnesotans through education, clinical practice, research and advocacy." Founded in 2000 by physicians and health advocates, RHI has re-framed the...
— Minnesota - Touro University Gay-Straight AllianceTouro University Gay-Straight AllianceTouro University Gay-Straight Alliance is a group of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender medical students, staff, faculty and allies at Touro University, a Jewish-sponsored university in California founded by Bernard Lander...