All posts tagged "health"
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Frantastic!
In January of 1985, intruders broke into the Los Angeles home of Fran Drescher and Peter Marc Jacobson. Drescher was raped, while Jacobson, held at...
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Battling the Blood Ban
Blood may be thicker than water. But a ban on blood donations may be thicker still. Members of George Washington University's Lambda Law, the LGBT...
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Bending with Benevolence
A novel approach to helping women deal with breast cancer is coming to the District this month – possibly in the form of the ''downward-facing...
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HHS Announces Plans for LGBT Health Data Collection
Today, the Department of Health and Human Services announced a plan to include sexual orientation and gender identity in health data collection, a result of...
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HHS Secretary Talks About LGBT Health Data
From today’s White House press briefing, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius talked about the difficulties of collecting health data about LGBT populations: ...
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Institutes of Medicine Releases LGBT Health Report
Today, a report on LGBT health called “groundbreaking” has been released by the Institutes of Medicine, “The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People:...
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The Alexandria Kleztet
Exciting and innovative, the Alexandria Kleztet has been combining traditional Eastern European Jewish music with diverse influences for more than a decade. The free concert...
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Mickey Rourke to play tough rugby player, Gareth Thomas, who is gay
”When I met the rugby player, Gareth Thomas, this is one thing that he and I talked about. This is something that’s really important. We’re...
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The Master and Margarita at the Lansburgh
Now in its 10th anniversary season, Synetic Theatre presents the first of two shows at the Lansburgh Theatre as pat of a special alliance with...
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Richard III at the Artisphere
One of Shakespeare’s most complex and fascinating characters is central to the bard’s most entertaining history play, Richard III. The Washington Shakespeare Company is a...
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Anti-Tumor Team
Cancer, in a twisted sort of way, has the power to bring people together. It might be researchers working on the frontiers of the cancer...
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Fit Versus Fear
People are often motivated to get their bodies to a gym by looking at the ''before and after'' photos of the success stories. ''If he...
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Healthy Discussion
In mid October, it was once again time for what has become the premiere assembly for discussing the collective health of gay, bisexual and transgender...
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Ban the Tan
About two years ago, Allan Green, 67, knew something was wrong, something that needed to be checked. ''I simply knew there was something not right....
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Survival Tactics
When a woman is sexually assaulted by another woman, it's obviously not rape: no penis, no rape. And when a man is sexually assaulted, there's...
