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"The creation of this Coalition is historic. We now have the opportunity to move forward together on a comprehensive national health agenda for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals and communities," said Cornelius Baker, Executive Director of the Whitman Walker Clinic and a member of the Coalition's Organizing Committee. The meeting was part of a larger conference on LGBT health, organized by the Whitman- Walker Clinic, the Fenway Community Health Center, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, the Columbia University Center for LGBT Health and its Lesbian Health Research Institute, and LLEGO - the National Latina/o Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Organization.
An Organizing Committee was selected to draft and refine the mission, goals, and objectives of the Coalition. In addition to the above organizations, the Organizing Committee includes the Mautner Project for Lesbians with Cancer, The COLOURS Organization, Inc., and the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center. "The members of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association strongly support the development of the National Coalition for LGBT Health and look forward to partnering with other LGBT health advocates on our common agenda," said Saul Levin, M.D., President of the Gay and Lesbian Medial Association The meeting and new Coalition were largely catalyzed by the federal government's Healthy People 2010 process, a long-range plan of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Inclusion of LGBT health issues in Healthy People 2010 is critical, as it will drive much federal research and funding for the next 10 years. Thus, LGBT health advocates came together informally to improve the coverage of LGBT health issues in the Healthy People 2010 document. Through this process, the LGBT health community came to realize a more formal method of collaboration was needed, and this new Coalition was formed. Contacts: National Coalition for LGBT Health c/o Cornelius Baker Executive Director Whitman Walker Clinic 1407 S Street, NW Washington, DC 20009 202-797-3511 cbaker@wwc.org Michael Hinson COLOURS Organization, Inc. mshinson@critpath.org 215-496-0330 Judith Bradford Columbia University Center for LGBT Health jbbradfo@vcu.edu 804-828-8813 Scout Lesbian Health Research Institute part of the Columbia University Center for LGBT Health scoutDC@aol.com 212-305-4055 Barbara Sherlock Fenway Community Health Center bsherlock@fenwayhealth.org 617-536-7240 Ron Tierney Gay and Lesbian Medical Association rtierney@glma.org 1-415-255-4547 Micah Carvalho L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center mcarvalho@laglc.org 323-860-7361 Pedro Julio Serrano LLEGÓ, The National Latina/o Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Organization MOQ@llego.org 202-466-8240 x102 Cheryl Fields Mautner Project for Lesbians with Cancer cfields@mautnerproject.org 202-332-5536 David Elliot National Gay and Lesbian Task Force delliot@ngltf.org 202-332-6483 Michael Cover Whitman Walker Clinic mcover@wwc.org 202-797-3590 |
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