Each week HuffPost Gay Voices, in a partnership with bloggers Liz Margolies and Scout, brings you a round up of some of the biggest LGBT wellness stories from the past seven days. For more LGBT Wellness, visit our page dedicated to the topic here.
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Queering Mother’s Day
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Mother’s day has been commercialized and mainstreamed, but policy organizations like Strong Families are working to make sure that ALL families are healthy, supported and represented. Pregnant Butch, a new graphic novel, discusses the often invisible experiences of LGBTQ families.
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Are People Seeing Anti-Tobacco Messaging in LGBT Media?
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Researchers looked at a sample of over 700 LGBT individuals to find that there was relatively low awareness of any tobacco control messaging in LGBT media. Researchers bring up concerns this is because tobacco control advertising rarely includes LGBT media buys; they recommend LGBT media outlets as an important venue for future campaigns.
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Stressed LGBT Teens Need a Drink
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Continuous discrimination, bullying and the lack of social acceptance has LGBT teens bottoming up. Previous research shows that LGBT people in general experience higher rates of mental and physical health issues than that of their counterparts. In any case these disparities are the cause of the LGBT teens drinking habits.
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Depression in immigrant Latino gay men, men who have sex with men and transgender women.
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A new study from Wake Forest School of Medicine (NC) is the first study to find prevalence rates of depression symptoms among migrant, sexual minority Latinos in the southern United States with about three quarters reporting clinically significant depressive symptoms and 88.5% reporting internalized homo-negativity. The study calls for culturally competent interventions to address the psycho-social needs of this community.
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New Review Article on Medical Management of FTM Patients
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The authors review all the evidence on hormonal treatment, surgical treatment, and life expectancy, including what’s known about cancer risks. They conclude “Hormonal treatment of FTM is usually uneventful,” not for those of us living it!
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Study finds great diversity among trans people living in Ontario.
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A new study of trans-identified people in Ontario found a large range in terms of their transition status. Only a minority of people reported a linear transition from one sex to another, even as this is usually assumed to be the norm. Thirty percent of the self-identified trans people were still living as the gender they were assigned at birth and 23% of those who had transitioned had had no medical intervention at all.
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