LibGuides: LGBTQ Health: Introduction to LGBTQ Health

LGBTQ Cultural Competency

Diversity Wheel
From the Diversity Leadership Council, Johns Hopkins University & Medicine
Gender Spectrum
Helps families, organizations, and institutions increase understandings of gender and consider the implications that evolving views have for each of us.
National LGBT Health Education Center Learning Modules
Series of relevant and helpful webinars that can be downloaded or viewed. CME/CEU credit option.
Trans Cultural Competency
Learning Center Topics from the Center of Excellence for Transgender Health at the University of California, San Francisco.

The Contemporary Context of LGBT Family Building: What Providers Need to Know
An AMA Wire webinar on LGBTQ family building includes guidance from an ob-gyn on how to support LGBTQ patients seeking to start families.
Supporting Gender Independent Children and their Families
Evidence-based best practices from Rainbow Health Ontario

GLBT National Hotline (888)843-4564 or help@GLBThotline.org

Fenway LGBT Helpline (Ages 25+) (888)340-4528

Trevor Project Suicide Prevention Helpline (866)4-U-TREVOR

Affirmations Helpline (800)398-GAYS

Trans Lifeline (877)565-8860

TTY Line (248)677-7235

25 and Under:

GLBT National Youth Talkline (800)246-PRIDE

Fenway Peer Listening Line (800)399-PEER

Trevor Youth Lifeline (866)488-7386

LGBT Health Awareness Week: Last week of March

LGBTQ History Month: October

LGBT Pride Month: June

National Coming Out Day: October 11

Transgender Day of Remembrance: November 20

Transgender Day of Visibility: March 31st

World AIDS Day: December 1

CDC guide
Online PDF guide from the Centers for Disease Control that offers tips for creating dialogue around sexual health issues, including a sexual history. The goal is to help providers determine STD risk among patients and to determine how best to perform testing.

Phone: (334) 699-2266 ext. 4242

Inside ACOM, just dial 4242.

Text: (334) 384-0868