Last Friday, after services, the Koleinu Healthcare/Eldercare Action Team and the Trans Empowerment Coalition hosted a shmooze with the Lesbian Cancer Initiative of the LGBT Community Center.
The shmooze focused on cancer screening, cancer risk, and discrimination in LBT communities. This is part of an ongoing conversation, both within our community and with medical and service providers, to get equitable care for LGBT people. It is so vital that we as a community discuss our fears and frustrations as LGBT people and make our voices heard. This is how we will make a change.
The Koleinu Healthcare/Eldercare Action Team is organizing to ...
Last night, CBST, in collaboration with the JCC Manhattan, Keshet, Ma’yan, PFLAG NYC, ScenariousUSA, and Gender Spectrum, hosted a program at the JCC called, “Getting Reel About Youth and Gender” with about 30 attendees who braved the cold, slushy snow.
Looking starting with definitions of gender identity, gender expression, sex, and sexual orientation, the group walked through importance of understanding the differences that exist among these categories and how they intersect to produce different identities.
We then looked at a series of videos about gender non-conforming youth and their parents. Perhaps most compelling was the story of a 12 year old named ...
