{"id":1519,"date":"2018-11-13T03:14:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T03:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwmedptn\/?page_id=1519"},"modified":"2018-11-13T03:14:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T03:14:19","slug":"lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-and-queer-lgbtq","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwmedptn\/strategies-programs\/healthcare-equity\/hcetoolkit\/lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-and-queer-lgbtq\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Keep in mind that definitions can vary greatly across communities and individuals, and that it is best to give all patients an opportunity to provide information on how they identify when seeking care.<\/p>\n

LGBTQ \u2013 <\/strong>Abbreviation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer. \u00a0An umbrella term that is often used to refer to the community as a whole.<\/p>\n

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Recommended Books<\/h1>\n

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Charity and Sylvia:\u00a0 A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"Author<\/strong>: Rachel Hope Cleves
\nPublished<\/strong>: May 27, 2014
\nISBN<\/strong>: 0199335427
\nISBN13<\/strong>:\u00a09780199335428
\n<\/span>Pages: 267<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

“A unique and often untold story of early LGBT American history,\u00a0Charity and Sylvia<\/a>documents the true history of Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake, two nineteenth century women who decided to live together as a married couple. Using original letters, diaries, and poetry, author and historian Rachel Hope Cleves paints an intimate picture of the 44-year union between these two women, illuminating an often darkened piece of history.”\u2013\u00a0 Bustle<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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The Velvet Rage:\u00a0 Overcoming the Pain of Growing up Gay in a Straight Man\u2019s World<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/em><\/strong>Author<\/strong>: Alan Downs, PhD
\nPublished<\/strong>: April 25, 2006
\nISBN: <\/strong>0738210617
\nISBN13<\/strong>:\u00a09780738210612
\nPages<\/strong>: 212<\/p>\n

\u201cIn\u00a0The Velvet Rage<\/em>, psychologist Alan Downs draws on his own struggle with shame and anger, contemporary research, and stories from his patients to passionately describe the stages of a gay man\u2019s journey out of shame and offers practical and inspired strategies to stop the cycle of avoidance and self-defeating behavior.\u00a0The Velvet Rage<\/em>\u00a0is an empowering book that has already changed the public discourse on gay culture and helped shape the identity of an entire generation of gay men.\u201d \u2013 Hachette Book Group<\/a><\/p>\n

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Surpassing Certainty: What my Twenties Taught Me<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"Author<\/strong>:\u00a0 Janet Mock
\nPublished<\/strong>: June 13 2017
\nISBN<\/strong>: 1501145797
\nISBN13<\/strong>:\u00a09781501145797
\nPages<\/strong>: 256<\/p>\n

\u201cThe journey begins a few months before her twentieth birthday. Janet Mock is adjusting to her days as a first-generation college student at the University of Hawaii and her nights as a dancer at a strip club. Finally content in her body, she vacillates between flaunting and concealing herself as she navigates dating and disclosure, sex and intimacy, and most important, letting herself be truly\u00a0seen<\/em>. Under the neon lights of Club Nu, Janet meets Troy, a yeoman stationed at Pearl Harbor naval base, who becomes her\u00a0first<\/em>. The pleasures and perils of their union serve as a backdrop for Janet\u2019s progression through her early twenties with all the universal growing pains\u2014falling in and out of love, living away from home, and figuring out what she wants to\u00a0do\u00a0<\/em>with her life.<\/p>\n

Despite her disadvantages, fueled by her dreams and inimitable drive, Janet makes her way through New York City while holding her truth close. She builds a career in the highly competitive world of magazine publishing\u2014within the unique context of being trans, a woman, and a person of color.<\/p>\n

Long before she became one of the world\u2019s most respected media figures and lauded leaders for equality and justice, Janet was a girl taking the time she needed to just\u00a0be<\/em>\u2014to learn how to advocate for herself before becoming an advocate for others. As you witness Janet\u2019s slow-won success and painful failures,\u00a0Surpassing Certainty\u00a0<\/em>will embolden you, shift the way you see others, and affirm your journey in search of self.\u201d \u2013 Atria Books<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Love Wins:\u00a0 The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"Original Title<\/strong>: Twenty One Years to Midnight
\nAuthors<\/strong>: Debbie Cenziper, Jim Obergefell
\nPublished<\/strong>: June 14, 2016
\nISBN<\/strong>:\u00a00062456083
\nISBN13<\/strong>:\u00a09780062456083
\nPages<\/strong>: 304<\/span><\/p>\n

“The fascinating and very moving story of the lovers, lawyers, judges and activists behind the groundbreaking Supreme Court case that led to one of the most important, national civil rights victories in decades\u2014the legalization of same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n

In June 2015, the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage the law in all fifty states in a decision as groundbreaking as\u00a0Roe v Wade<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Brown v Board of Education<\/em>. Through insider accounts and access to key players, this definitive account reveals the dramatic and previously unreported events behind\u00a0Obergefell v Hodges<\/em>\u00a0and the lives at its center. This is a story of law and love\u2014and a promise made to a dying man who wanted to know how he would be remembered.<\/p>\n

Twenty years ago, Jim Obergefell and John Arthur fell in love in Cincinnati, Ohio, a place where gays were routinely picked up by police and fired from their jobs. In 2013, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government had to provide married gay couples all the benefits offered to straight couples. Jim and John\u2014who was dying from ALS\u2014flew to Maryland, where same-sex marriage was legal. But back home, Ohio refused to recognize their union, or even list Jim’s name on John’s death certificate. Then they met Al Gerhardstein, a courageous attorney who had spent nearly three decades advocating for civil rights and who now saw an opening for the cause that few others had before him.<\/p>\n

This forceful and deeply affecting narrative\u2014Part\u00a0Erin Brockovich<\/em>, part\u00a0Milk<\/em>, part\u00a0Still Alice<\/em>\u2014chronicles how this grieving man and his lawyer, against overwhelming odds, introduced the most important gay rights case in U.S. history. It is an urgent and unforgettable account that will inspire readers for many years to come.”\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 HarperCollinsPublishers<\/a><\/p>\n

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Nevada<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"Author<\/strong>: Imogen Binnie
\nPublished<\/strong>: April 2, 2013
\nISBN<\/strong>: 0983242232
\nISBN13<\/strong>:\u00a09780983242239
\nPages<\/strong>: 262<\/p>\n

\u201cNevada is the darkly comedic story of Maria Griffiths, a young trans woman living in New York City and trying to stay true to her punk values while working retail. When she finds out her girlfriend has lied to her, the world she thought she\u2019d carefully built for herself begins to unravel, and Maria sets out on a journey that will most certainly change her forever.\u201d \u2013 Bookwire by Bowker<\/a><\/p>\n

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Giovanni’s Room<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"Author:<\/strong> James Baldwin
\nPublished<\/strong>: September 12, 2013 (First in 1956)
\nISBN<\/strong>:\u00a00345806565
\nISBN13<\/strong>:\u00a09780345806567
\nPages<\/strong>: 176<\/span><\/p>\n

“James Baldwin\u2019s groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris.<\/p>\n

David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he is drawn in spite of himself. Soon the two are spending the night in Giovanni\u2019s curtainless room, which he keeps dark to protect their privacy. But Hella\u2019s return to Paris brings the affair to a crisis, one that rapidly spirals into tragedy. Caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality, David struggles for self-knowledge during one long, dark night\u2014\u201cthe night which is leading me to the most terrible morning of my life.\u201d With sharp, probing insight, Giovanni\u2019s Room tells an impassioned, deeply moving story that lays bare the unspoken complexities of the human heart.<\/p>\n

Introduction by Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn” \u2013 Penguin Random House<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Gay Revolution:\u00a0 The Story of the Struggle<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"Author<\/strong>: Lillian Faderman
\nPublished<\/strong>: September 8, 2005
\nISBN<\/strong>:\u00a01451694113
\nISBN13<\/strong>:\u00a09781451694116
\nPages<\/strong>: 816<\/span><\/p>\n

“The sweeping story of the struggle for gay and lesbian rights\u2014based on amazing interviews with politicians, military figures, and members of the entire LGBT community who face these challenges every day: \u201cThis is the history of the gay and lesbian movement that we\u2019ve been waiting for\u201d (The Washington Post<\/i>).<\/p>\n

The fight for gay and lesbian civil rights\u2014the years of outrageous injustice, the early battles, the heart-breaking defeats, and the victories beyond the dreams of the gay rights pioneers\u2014is the most important civil rights issue of the present day. In \u201cthe most comprehensive history to date of America\u2019s gay-rights movement\u201d (The Economist<\/i>), Lillian Faderman tells this unfinished story through the dramatic accounts of passionate struggles with sweep, depth, and feeling.<\/p>\n

The Gay Revolution<\/i>\u00a0begins in the 1950s, when gays and lesbians were criminals, psychiatrists saw them as mentally ill, churches saw them as sinners, and society victimized them with hatred. Against this dark backdrop, a few brave people began to fight back, paving the way for the revolutionary changes of the 1960s and beyond. Faderman discusses the protests in the 1960s; the counter reaction of the 1970s and early eighties; the decimated but united community during the AIDS epidemic; and the current hurdles for the right to marriage equality.<\/p>\n

\u201cA compelling read of a little-known part of our nation\u2019s history, and of individuals whose stories range from heart-wrenching to inspiring to enraging to motivational\u201d (Chicago Tribune<\/i>),\u00a0The Gay Revolution<\/i>\u00a0paints a nuanced portrait of the LGBT civil rights movement. A defining account, this is the most complete and authoritative book of its kind.” \u2013 Simon & Schuster<\/a><\/p>\n

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Yoruba Richen: What the Gay Rights Movement Learned from the Civil Rights Movement<\/em><\/h3>\n

“As a member of both the African American and LGBT communities, filmmaker Yoruba Richen is fascinated with the overlaps and tensions between the gay rights and the civil rights movements. She explores how the two struggles intertwine and propel each other forward \u2014 and, in an unmissable argument, she dispels a myth about their points of conflict. A powerful reminder that we all have a stake in equality.” \u2013\u00a0TED2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

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