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Bisexuality and health: The cost of invisibility

Sabra L. Katz-Wise, PhDOn September 23, 2019, the 20th anniversary of Bi Visibility Day, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) held its first-ever bisexual health research workshop. As an invited panelist at this event, sponsored by the NIH’s Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office, I joined 19...

A Tool to Combat Bullying

For a group of Harvard researchers, communication and intervention are the keys to a new tool designed to reduce bullying of LGBTQ students around the country. According to the most recent information gathered by the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, lesbian, gay and bisexual students are...

What can the early days of AIDS teach us about today?

Watch Dr. Marshall Forstein and Dr. Kenneth Mayer discuss the early days of AIDS, its parallels to and differences from what we're currently experiencing with COVID-19, and what we can learn and apply today. Through sharing their own expertise and discussing questions from viewers, they discuss the...

Panel of HMS LGBTQ Psychiatrists: What are you drawing upon during this time?

Watch Harvard Medical School LGBTQ faculty and residents in psychiatry discuss strategies for getting through COVID-19—for both their patients and themselves. They discuss the impact of changes to routines and living arrangements, holding onto your LGBTQ+ identity, the importance of community, and...

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Transforming Transgender Care: $1.5 million gift kick-starts sexual, gender minority health equity initiative When Perry Cohen experienced an urgent health concern earlier this year, his town’s only care provider who specializes in working with LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer)...