February marks the celebration of Heart Health Month. Heart disease, storke and heart related illnesses impact people of all age, race, and sexual orientations.  Some groups are disproportionately impacted as well such as those who are substance users, chronic illness like HIV, or a family history of heart problems.

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In the LGBT world one place we don't often spend much time on destigmatizing is for those living with HIV.  Overlooked, misunderstood, mistreated, hated, and feared people with HIV simply should not have to put up with the words and labels placed upon them by their peers.  Being queer ...

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This month the Centers for Disease Control released its expanded report on the data collected during the 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey entitled 2010 Findings on Victimization by Sexual Orientation. The report found that lesbian, gay and bisexual Americans were equally or more likely to face intimate ...

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One of the latest and greatest iPhone apps aims to find out exactly if you really do need that magnum or super-size condom.  Dubbed “Condom Size” it turns your iPhone into a tool for measuring length and girth of your own “tool.” 

At first glance this app might measure up ...

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ProjectHEALTH, a program created out of collaboration from San Francisco area clinic Lyon-Martin and Transgender Law Center, recently launched a new project TRANSLINE. This project not only has basic information about transgender health such as links to standards of care for transgender identified patients, how to change one's name ...

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Somehow when University of California Riverside's LGBT Resource Center published TransFigures, an inspiring and informative poster collection of transgender figures and leaders, I missed out. Thanks to Twitter I recently discovered them and felt I had to share them. Along with providing a broad range of representations of the ...

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Today's guest blog comes courtesy of Damiene Denner the College at Brockport's student organization SOUL. She shares information about an exciting upcoming event.

SOUL is proud to announce that Jennifer Boylan will be coming to the College at Brockport campus to lecture and read from her ...

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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 Op-ed piece recently in the Advocate presented an interesting viewpoint. The piece discussed the results of a study done of 686 gay and bisexual males who disclosed having used mobile apps to meet sexual partners.  The survey also probed into knowledge of HIV,  perceived risk for becoming infected, and ...

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Since the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Truvada, an anti-HIV drug, for HIV prevention as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PreP) there has been a lot of buzz in our community about the use of PreP among gay/bi men and transwomen. So much buzz, that our pharmacists and pharmacy interns even ...

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