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It also includes a timeline of events related to sexual orientation and medicine.

LGBT-specific medical associations

Australia

• Australian Lesbian Medical Association

United Kingdom

• CHAPS (health organisation)
• Gay and Lesbian Association of Doctors and Dentists
• LGBTI Health Summit
• LGBT Centre for Health and Wellbeing

United States

• Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights
• Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
• LGBT Health Action Committee (part of AMSA)
• LGBTI Health Summit
• Lesbian Health and Research Center
• National Coalition for LGBT Health
• Pritzker School of Medicine LGBT People In Medicine
• Touro University Gay-Straight Alliance

The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA) is an organization of 2,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) physicians, medical students, and their supporters in all 50 states and 12 countries. ... The American Medical Student Association, (AMSA) founded in 1950, is the oldest and largest independent association of physicians-in-training in the United States. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Touro University Gay-Straight Alliance (TUGSA) is a group of LGTB & Allied medical students, staff, and faculty at Touro University - Mare Island. ...

Medical associations with policy related to sexual orientation

Australia

• Australian Medical Association[1]

China

• Chinese Society of Psychiatry

The Chinese Society of Psychiatry (CSP) is the largest organization for psychiatrists in China. ...

United States

• American Academy of Pediatrics [2]
• American Medical Association[3]
• American Medical Student Association [4]
• American Psychological Association (for public)[5] (for educators)[6]
• Catholic Medical Association^[1]
• Christian Medical and Dental Association [7]

Timeline of events related to sexual orientation and medicine

See also: Timeline of AIDS and Timeline of LGBT history

• 1886
  • Dr. Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, a German psychiatrist, publishes a study of sexual perversity.
• 1974
  • The American Psychiatric Association votes to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
• 1977
  • The Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights is founded in San Francisco as a support group for gay and lesbian medical students, residents, and other health care providers. The group claims to be the first LGBT medical society in the US.^[2]
• 1981
  • The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association is founded 1981 as the American Association of Physicians for Human Rights.
  • The first cases of Gay related immunodeficiency, now known as AIDS, were first reported June 5, 1981, when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded a cluster of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in five homosexual men in Los Angeles.
• 1987
  • The diagnosis of Ego-dystonic sexual orientation is dropped from the DSM.
• 1992
  • The World health organization replaces its categorization of homosexuality as a mental illness with the diagnosis of ego-dystonic homosexuality.
• 1993
  • Dr. Dean Hamer publishes a paper suggesting a genetic component to sexual orientation.^[3]
• 1995
  • Saquinavir, the first protease inhibitor is approved for public use by the FDA. HAART radically changes the prognosis of HIV/AIDS.
• 1996
  • The US Department of Defense includes homosexuality in a list of "mental disorders," in a document known as "directive 1332.38: physical disability evaluation."
• 2002
  • The United States Department of Health and Human Services publishes Healthy People 2010, with the goals of increasing the quality and years of healthy life and eliminating health disparities in America. It identifies sexual orientation as one of 6 demographic factors contributing to health disparities.

America’s gay and lesbian population comprises a diverse community with disparate health concerns. Major health issues for gay men are HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, substance abuse, depression, and suicide. Gay male adolescents are two to three times more likely than their peers to attempt suicide. Some evidence suggests lesbians have higher rates of smoking, overweight, alcohol abuse, and stress than heterosexual women. The issues surrounding personal, family, and social acceptance of sexual orientation can place a significant burden on mental health and personal safety. This is a timeline of AIDS. 1959 The first known case of HIV in a human was found in a person who died in the Congo (Zhu et al. ... LGBT rights Around the world · By country History · Groups · Activists Declaration of Montreal Same-sex relationships Marriage · Adoption Opposition · Persecution Violence This timeline of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) history details notable events in the Common Era West. ... Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing with his wife Marie Luise Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing[1] (August 14, 1840 – December 22, 1902) was an Austro-German psychiatrist who wrote Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), a famous study of sexual perversity, and remains well-known for his coinage of the term sadism (after... Paraphilia (in Greek para παρά = over and philia φιλία = friendship) is a mental health term recently used to indicate sexual arousal in response to sexual objects or situations that are not part of societally normative arousal/activity patterns, or which may interfere with... The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual published by the American Psychiatric Association The poopDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), published by the American Psychiatric Association, is the handbook used most often in diagnosing mental disorders in the United States. ... The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA) is an organization of 2,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) physicians, medical students, and their supporters in all 50 states and 12 countries. ... Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS or Aids) is a collection of symptoms and infections resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). ... Binomial name Pneumocystis jiroveci Pneumocystis jiroveci, also known by its former name Pneumocystis carinii, is a fungus (earlier classified as a protozoa) that causes pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). ... The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that acts as a coordinating authority on international public health. ... Dr Dean Hamer (born 1951) is a geneticist, who, as of 2007 is the director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the U.S. National Cancer Institute (part of the National Institutes of Health). ... Saquinavir (Fortovase®, Roche) is a protease inhibitor, used as a component of HIV therapy. ... Protease inhibitor can refer to: Protease inhibitor (pharmacology): a class of medication that inhibits viral protease Protease inhibitor (biology): a group of proteins that inhibit proteases. ... FDA logo The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and is responsible for regulating food, dietary supplements, drugs, biological medical products, blood products, medical devices, radiation-emitting devices, veterinary products, and cosmetics in the United States. ... The term antiretroviral drugs is used to describe drugs used against HIV infection (HIV is an RNA retrovirus). ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The United States Department of Health and Human Services, often abbreviated HHS, is a Cabinet department of the United States government with the goal of protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services. ...

– Healthy People 2010 ^[4]

• 2004
  • New York Medical College revokes the charter of the its LGBT medical student group after the applies to change its name from Student Help Organization to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender People in Medicine. School officials claimed “the organization and its leader would advocate and promote activities inconsistent with the values of NYMC.”^[5][6]
• 2005
  • American Medical Association president Edward Hill, MD becomes the first AMA president to address the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association in a speech entitled "Understanding, Advocacy, Leadership: The AMA Perspective on LGBT Health."

I know that GLMA members and LGBT physicians have been treated unfairly by the AMA in the past. There is simply no excuse for discriminatory actions or exclusions based on sexual orientation or gender identity -- none. First, GLMA has opened [the AMA's] eyes to the diverse needs of LGBT patients, and second -- and just as important -- GLMA has told patients that they have the right to expect a health care system filled with openness, fairness and equality."^[7] The New York Medical College is a private professional school located in Valhalla, New York. ... The American Medical Association (AMA) is the largest association of medical doctors in the United States. ... The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA) is an organization of 2,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) physicians, medical students, and their supporters in all 50 states and 12 countries. ... The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA) is an organization of 2,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) physicians, medical students, and their supporters in all 50 states and 12 countries. ...

– Dr. Edward Hill, MD, president American Medical Association The American Medical Association (AMA) is the largest association of medical doctors in the United States. ...

• 2006
  • Touro University, a medical school in California, revokes the charter of its LGBT student organization. After an outcry of protest from various groups, the school restores the group and school officials apologize.^[8]
• 2007
  • The American Medical Student Association membership votes to create an action committee on LGBT health issues.
  • The US Food and Drug Administration re-affirms its policy prohibiting men who have sex with men (MSM) from donating blood despite recommendations from the American Red Cross, and the American Association of Blood Banks.

Touros Lander Hall holds the schools laboratories and classrooms. ... Touro University Gay-Straight Alliance (TUGSA) is a group of LGTB & Allied medical students, staff, and faculty at Touro University - Mare Island. ... FDA logo The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and is responsible for regulating food, dietary supplements, drugs, biological medical products, blood products, medical devices, radiation-emitting devices, veterinary products, and cosmetics in the United States. ... Some or all of this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... A WWII-era poster encouraged American women to volunteer for the Red Cross as part of the war effort. ...

See also

• Homosexuality and science
• Homosexuality and psychology
• Sexual orientation and science

1. ^ http://www.cathmed.org/publications/homosexuality.htm
2. ^ http://www.baphr.org/about/default.asp
3. ^ Hamer, Hu, Magnuson, Hu and Pattatucci (1993) A linkage between DNA markers on the X chromosome and male sexual orientation. Science 261(5119): pp. 321-7.
4. ^ Healthy People 2010, 2nd ed. "A Systematic Approach to Health Improvement" http://www.healthypeople.gov/Document/tableofcontents.htm#parta
5. ^ http://www.amsa.org/lgbt/nymc.cfm
6. ^ http://www.washblade.com/2005/1-14/view/actionalert/badmeds.cfm
7. ^ http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/15741.html
8. ^ http://www.amsa.org/lgbt/touro.cfm