Quote:
“There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it’s now okay to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until it’s simply the way things are.” – Tammy Baldwin
In 2013, Tammy Baldwin made history by becoming the first openly gay Senator in the United States. In her speech at the Millennium March for Equality, she spoke to LGBTQ folks, encouraging them to be out and proud. In this quotation, she states that the only way to normalize non-heterosexual orientations is for the queer community to act like they are normal, because they are.
Breast
- Breast Cancer in Lesbians and Bisexual Women: Systematic Review of Incidence, Prevalence and Risk StudiesBMC Public Health. 2013;13(1127)
- Breast health, risk factors, and cancer screening among lesbian, bisexual, and queer/questioning women in ChinaHealth Care for Women International
7 Feb 2019. - Breast Reconstruction in Lesbians and Bisexual WomenNational LGBT Cancer Network
- Lesbians and Breast Cancer RiskNational LGBT Cancer Network
- Queer Women Breast Cancer Survivors & Reconstruction DecisionsNational LGBT Cancer Network
- Sexual orientation and benign breast disease in a cohort of U.S. womenCancer Causes Control. 2020 Feb;31(2):173-179
Domestic Violence
- Intimate Partner Violence in Self-Identified Lesbians: A Systematic Review of Its Prevalence and CorrelatesTrauma, Violence & Abuse
2016, Vol. 17(3) 284-297 - Lesbian/Bisexual Mothers and Intimate Partner Violence: Help Seeking in the Context of Social and Legal VulnerabilityViolence Against Women
17(1) 28–46 2011 - Sexual violence, stalking, and intimate partner violence by sexual orientation, United StatesPsychology of Violence Vol. 10,(1) (Jan 2020
- When Intimate Partner Violence Meets Same Sex Couples: A Review of Same Sex Intimate Partner ViolenceFront Psychol. 2018 Aug 21;9:1506
Substance Abuse
- LGBT friendly healthcare providers’ tobacco treatment practices and recommendationsPerspect Psychiatr Care. 2019 Oct;55(4):546-553
- Stress, Coping, and Context: Examining Substance Use Among LGBTQ Young Adults With Probable Substance Use DisordersPsychiatric Services 2020; 71:112–120
Obesity
- Obese But Fit: The Relationship of Fitness to Metabolically Healthy But Obese Status among Sexual Minority WomenWomen's Health Issues 26-S1 (2016) S81–S86
- Program Design for Healthy Weight in Lesbian and Bisexual Women: A Ten-City Prevention InitiativeWomen's Health Issues 26-S1 (2016) S7–S17
Lesbian Pride
Cervical Cancer
- Association of Pregnancy History and Cervical Cancer Screening in a Community Sample of Sexual Minority WomenJOURNAL OF WOMEN’S HEALTH
Volume 28, Number 4, 2019 - Cervical Cancer Screening (Pap Testing) Behaviours and Acceptability of Human Papillomavirus Self-Testing among Lesbian and Bisexual Women Aged 21–26 Years in the USAJ Fam Plann Reprod Health Care. 2015
October ; 41(4): 259–264. - Health Care-Related Correlates of Cervical Cancer Screening among Sexual Minority Women: An Integrative ReviewJ Midwifery Womens Health. 2020 March 25
Mental Health, Depression, Anxiety & Suicide
- Are LGBT Populations at a Higher Risk for Suicidal Behaviors in Australia? Research Findings and ImplicationsJournal of Homosexuality, 62:7, 883-901, 2015
- The Physical and Mental Health of Lesbian, Gay Male, and Bisexual (LGB) Older Adults: The Role of Key Health Indicators and Risk and Protective FactorsThe Gerontologist Vol. 53, No. 4, 664–675 2012