title: Hispanic Medical Organizations' Support for LGBT Health Issues.
abstract: Hispanics represent the fastest growing ethnic segment of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in the United States and are disproportionately burdened by LGBT-related health issues and limited political support from Hispanic medical organizations. Recently, the Latino Medical Student Association, the National Hispanic Medical Association, and the Hispanic Serving Health Professions Schools, representing over 60,000 Hispanic students and providers and 35 institutions, collaborated to support a resolution opposing discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity and recognizing the obstacles encountered by LGBTQ Hispanics. The resolution provides an important framework for organizational members and leaders to address LGBT health issues and serve to support a more positive sociopolitical climate for the Hispanic LGBT community nationally and internationally.
authors.affiliation: 1 Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine , Bronx, New York.
authors.forename: John Paul
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Sánchez
authors.affiliation: 2 Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons , New York, New York.
authors.forename: Orlando
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Sola
authors.affiliation: 3 Yale School of Medicine , New Haven, Connecticut.
authors.forename: Jorge
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ramallo
authors.affiliation: 4 Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College , New York, New York.
authors.forename: Nelson Felix
authors.initials: NF
authors.lastname: Sánchez
authors.affiliation: 5 National Hispanic Medical Association , Atlanta, Georgia .
authors.forename: Kenneth
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dominguez
authors.affiliation: 6 Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center , Albuquerque, New Mexico .
authors.forename: Valerie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Romero-Leggott
keywords: Hispanic; LGBT health; Latino; policy