LGBTQ+ Elder Health Care

RetireGuide

Growing older presents challenges for millions of Americans, but members of the LGBTQ+ community are particularly hard-hit. According to the UCLA Williams Institute, LGBTQ+ older adults face many additional barriers to receiving health care. ElderGuide created this guide to connect the elders of the LGBTQ+ community to the resources and information necessary to help them find the care that they need.

PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays)

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PFLAG ​is the nation's largest organization dedicated to supporting, educating, and advocating for LGBTQ+ people and those who love them.

Transgender Law Project

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Transgender Law Center is the largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people. Since 2002 we’ve been organizing, assisting, informing and empowering thousands of individual community members towards a long-term, national, trans-led movement for liberation.

It Gets Better Project

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A list of over 1100 organizations in 40+ countries around the world offering support to LGBTQ+ youth.

Everyone is Gay | State-By-State Resources

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Everyone Is Gay is a collection of voices gathered from 2010-2018 to give advice and support to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning/Queer, Intersex, and Asexual (LGBTQIA) youth.

Resources for Supporting LGBTQ + Well-Being

Adirondack Health Institute

Adirondack Health Institute is an independent, non-profit organization supporting hospitals, physician practices, behavioral health providers, community-based organizations, patients and others in our region to transform health care and improve population health.

College Guide for LGBT Students

Jennifer King Logan
Taylor Nichols

This resource serves as an LGBTQ student's guide to college and will help address some of the most common barriers in school. With the help of Dr. Brandon Haddock (they/them), LGBT Resource Center Coordinator at Kansas State University, we'll offer advice on choosing an LGBTQ-friendly college, identifying resources and avenues of support, and finding financial aid and scholarships for LGBTQ students.

LGBTQ Resource List

GLAAD

GLAAD is an American non-governmental media monitoring organization. Originally founded as a protest against defamatory coverage of gay and lesbian demographics and their portrayals in the media and entertainment industries, it has since included bisexual and transgender people.

Progressive Style Guide

Hanna Thomas
Anna Hirsch

A valuable and fresh perspective on the words advocates and communities are using today, why those terms matter, and how to take a community- and power-building perspective to the language we use when we’re communicating about our struggles and victories.

The guide covers language in issue areas from age and disability to race, gender, indigeneity, health, and geopolitics. It sparks a conversation about language among progressives, a conversation that as communications folks we heartily welcome.

The Genderbread Person

Sam Killermann

Gender is one of those things everyone thinks they understand, but most people don't. Like Inception. Gender isn't binary. It's not either/or. In many cases it's both/and. A bit of this, a dash of that. This tasty little guide is meant to be an appetizer for gender understanding. It's okay if you are hungry for more. In fact, that's the idea.

The Many Elements of Comprehensive Sexuality: Meet the Sexualitree

Sam Killermann

The Sexualitree is a way to see how we experience sexuality in different ways.

Glossary of Terms

Human Rights Campaign

Many Americans refrain from talking about sexual orientation and gender identity or expression because it feels taboo, or because they’re afraid of saying the wrong thing. This glossary was written to help give people the words and meanings to help make conversations easier and more comfortable. LGBTQ+ people use a variety of terms to identify themselves, not all of which are included in this glossary. Always listen for and respect a person’s self identified terminology.