I am a physician, and for several years in the mid-late 1980's, I volunteered in the evening walk-in clinic of the
Community Health Project (now Callen Lorde) at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center, as it was known at the time. While I was there, the HOTT program was initiated, a project which provides medical care to youth ages 18-21. The Community Health Project had a van, and two doctors, and a social worker who drove around the ...
"I don’t want to go back into the closet when I grow old."
"He had no medical proxy in place. His parents, who were ashamed of his “lifestyle,” moved him out of New York, away from the friends who visited him daily. A week later, on his 35th birthday, he died."
"Because I wasn’t the biological parent, I was always afraid that if something happened to our daughter, I wouldn’t be authorized to make medical decisions for her." ...
