May is National Mental Health Awareness Month. Each May mental health advocates strive towards making it known how commonplace mental illness truly is and how easily treatable most mental illnesses such as anxiety and depression are. LGBT people are often overwhelmed by issues that lead into depression, anxiety, eating disorders ...

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Our friends at OriginalPlumbing have launched a campaign within the last month devoted to getting our LGBT community talk about it.  Mental Health that is.  WIth LGBT people disproportionally impacted by mental health issues and generally have less access to care this is a great forum to share.  Talk About ...

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An LGBT school has recently opened in Phoenix Arizona. The school is housed in the same facility that one n ten operates their youth center during hours outside of normal school hours.  This school is one of the few like it in the country and provides an alternative way for ...

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Is some Homophobia Self-Phobia? That was one conclusion drawn by a recent study led by researchers at the University of Rochester.   Four separate experiments or questionnaires were conducted upon a total of 640 students in the US and Germany.  There is little previous research on the role that societal views ...

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Last Thursday, March 1, 2012, the first LGBT-specific senior center in the country opened its doors with a ribbon cutting ceremony in the Chelsea neighborhood of New YorkCity. The SAGE Center is a collaborative effort between the nonprofit SAGE (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders) and New York City’s ...

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Last week Jamey Rodemeyer, a 14-year-old high school freshman in Buffalo bullied for being gay or bisexual (depending on different media accounts) committed suicide.

Unfortunately, his experience was not unique. According to GLISEN LGB youth are 2-6 times more likely than heterosexual youth to attempt suicide. Transgender youth have even ...

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"Hello everyone, my namy is Chris Kelly, and when I was younger, when I was a kid, there was nothing that I wanted more than to not be gay. That was all I wanted. Was to not be gay."

You can't imagine all the weird ways that life is ...

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The reality? Not so much... according to a recent study conducted at the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, highlighted in the NY Times.

This study and others like it support that smoking actually causes higher levels of long-term stress, and that the only stress a cigarette actually relieves is ...

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We are a culture that is often times obsessed with the ideas of love, and by no means does that obsession die out during summertime. For many people, a summer fling is an annual goal, one more thing on the To-Do List before the leaves start changes.

The truth is ...

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Getting On With Life After A Partner Dies, by Jane Brody, published Monday in the NY Times, discusses the experiences and accounts of a few individuals who have lost their long-term partners. They describe what it has been like for them, how their daily lives are affected by the loss ...

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