Many families throughout the USA have been affected by Anti-LGBTQIA2+ bills. In this short article, you will get familiar with legislation that is being signed by the Governor of California, but not nationwide. We must ...
Recently, the news continues to report about so-called “religious exemptions” providing services to LGBTQIA+ individuals. Back in 2018 there was a Supreme Court case regarding a bakery that refused to make a wedding cake for ...
In celebrating LGBTQIA+ Pride Month every June, we honor the endeavors of many who came before us. It has become a time of much-needed celebration, perhaps now more than ever, in the wake of the ...
Resiliency, organization, and activism have a longstanding history in the LGBTQIA+ community. While people who identify as sexual or gender minorities have often faced social stigma, discrimination, and other challenges, the call to action has ...
The title of this column exemplifies what we have all been experiencing over the past couple years. We have all been subjected to a pervasive COVID-19 pandemic that has claimed over 960,000 American lives (Ritchie ...
During the historic pandemic of COVID-19, the world can surely look like a sinister place. This pandemic has contributed to an increase in death rates, mental health and substance use problems, domestic violence, financial stress, ...
When you hear about Pride Month, what does your mind conjure up? Is it parades, parties, rainbow flags, and endless queer gatherings? Or is it contempt for our flagrant defiance of straight culture? The latter ...
In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, an officer from the New York Police Department raided the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in the city’s Greenwich Village neighborhood. The events that occurred immediately ...
“Build it and they will come.” This familiar mantra from the movie Field of Dreams (Robinson, 1989), has been the long-term modus operandi for behavioral health providers, whether an addiction treatment, acute psychiatric, outpatient, or ...
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