What is echo in the gay community
Transgender teen an ambassador for the LGBTQ community
Echo Sundstrom defies the statistics.
Echo is transgender.
Echo identifies as gay and a-gender and prefers people use they/them pronouns over he/him.
A junior at C.M. Russell High Educational facility, Echo participates in unlike clubs and organizations, both in school and in the community.
The 16-year-old is thriving.
Echo largely has been accepted and hasn’t been the victim of bullying. Occasionally someone slips and uses “he” or “him,” but Echo doesn’t thought when it is an honest mistake.
But there’s more to the story than meets the eyes of Echo’s peers.
In December 2016, the National LGBTQ Task Force released the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey, the largest survey examination of the transgender experience in the United States. Thirty-nine percent of those surveyed reported experiencing serious psychological distress in the month prior to the survey. Forty percent said they had attempted suicide in their lifetime.
Specifically in college, 77 percent of those who were open with their gender identity or were perceived as gender nonconforming were harassed in some way in K-12. Twenty-four percent were physically assaulted. Thirteen per
How Project ECHO Is Fighting to Produce Health Care Welcoming to LGBTQ People
In March 2016, a program called Venture ECHO: LGBT Health launched with its sights set on a vexing problem: LGBTQ people acquire specific health look after needs, but far too often, providers are not equipped to meet them. Uniting physicians, nurses, and other medical practitioners from across the country for a yearlong collaboration, ECHO: LGBT has encouraged 10 major community health nurture centers and their related clinics to address an urgent question: How can the medical collective transform to greater serve LGBTQ people?
Conceived by the Wietzman Institute, an group dedicated to analyze and innovation in primary care, ECHO: LGBT’s main concentrate is creating a forum for medical practitioners to grasp about road blocks to health in the queer society and how to address them. Nine months into its run, the proposal has offered twice-monthly videoconferences where primary-care providers from Arizona, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Connecticut, Louisiana, and beyond share recommendations on challenging cases with expert, multidisciplinary faculty and colleagues.*
Of course, these conferences feel on familiar health t
The term “queer” has several meanings in colloquial language. It is often an umbrella identity adopted by those whose gender and sexual identities do not fit within our predominantly cis-gendered, heteronormative society. This meaning was adopted out of the original, bare-boned definition of “queer,” defined as that which is strange or odd. The term has come to stand for a collective of those that don’t confine to the norms of society when it comes to the ways they express themselves.
The College’s biggest queer community can be found in The Bridge, which is a club specifically for homosexual people and allies. This year’s president of the Bridge, Lily Craig `24, has been pushing for inclusivity both within the club and in the club’s integration into the rest of campus.
“Kevin, Alex, and I are currently building from the earth up. I was part of The Bridge my freshman year before it somehow dropped off the face of the earth,” Craig said.
Another queer group on campus can be found in Queer Society Circle, which meets every Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Mary Low Coffeehouse. Queer Community Circle is a discussion-based gathering led by the College’s Dean of Religious and Spiritual
To mark this year's LGBTQ+ History Month, DPhil candidate Victoria C. Roskams has written an article on her research into the appeal music holds for many queer writers as a devoted or compelling statement of their persona.
A New Echo
It was when writing my Masters dissertation that I first became interested in the appeal tune holds for many queer writers as the most loyal or compelling verbalization of their persona. Particularly, I became interested in this idea as it manifested at a time when limited ways to openly express that self seemed available. Harmony had a singular resonance for lgbtq+ male writers at the end of the nineteenth century. All the major sexologists of the era – Richard Krafft-Ebing, Havelock Ellis, Magnus Hirschfeld – touch upon the possibility of male lover men’s special propensity, or at least affinity, for song. According to other writers of the period, this notion was widespread enough that the mere question “Are you musical?” could perform as a code (“Are you peculiarly fond of Wagner?” was, apparently, the code of option for the especially discerning). The plan arose partly from the “inversion” model of sexuality, which held that queer men were more likely
By: Christine Nicco/TRT Reporter—
Collaborative attempts of the nation’s foremost LGBT health institutes are allowing medical providers to narrow health disparities when caring for the LGBT community, according to officials from the Weitzman Institute. Implementation of Project ECHO LGBT has begun to breach such barriers. The national initiative offers health providers the medical and cultural competency training needed in order to improve care for the LGBT community in a healthcare setting, according to an official from the Weitzman Institute.
“Our primary goal is to create more sites across the country that can be a central care health home for LGBT people, and to ensure that LGBT people anywhere in the region have access to providers who understand their cultural and medical needs,” said Dr. Wanda Montalvo, Main Investigator and the Associate Director at the Weitzman Institute. “Our aim is also to normalize main care for LGBT patients.”
Project ECHO LGBT is a part of Transforming First Care for LGBT People, a program funded by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Association of Collective Health Centers (NACH). The Weitzman Institute is t