MGH Guides: LGBTQIA+ Resources: Home

This LGBTQIA+ Resource Guide has been created to provide resources and information for IHP students by IHP students, primarily through KinsIHP and the JEDI Office.

In this guide, you will find:

Books in our Community Health Collection located in the IHP's Bellack Library (Building 38 4th Floor)
Videos retelling the experiences and worries of LGBTQ+ community in healthcare system
Recommended films
Gender and pronoun information and worksheets

LGBT Voices: Perspectives on Healthcare
A video interviewing people with lived experiences as being a member of the LGBTQ+ community and their experiences with healthcare. This video provides an opportunity to hear from individuals with lived experiences and provide an opportunity to future healthcare providers to think about how to dismantle some of the problems these individuals discussed

From Our Collection

These are some of the materials available to you through the IHP's Bellack Library. Please contact the Library if you have any questions, recommendations, or need assistance in checking one of these materials out.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Healthcare by Jesse M. Ehrenfeld (Editor); Kristen L. Eckstrand (Editor)
Call Number: HEALTHCARE DELIVERY LGBT HEALTH
ISBN: 9783319197517
Publication Date: 2016-03-04
Written by experienced clinicians and edited by Vanderbilt Program for LGBTI Health faculty, this book contains up-to-date expertise from physicians renowned for their work in LGBT health. This important text fills an informational void about the practical health needs of LGBT patients in both the primary care and specialty settings remains, and serves as a guide for LGBT preventive and specialty medicine that can be utilized within undergraduate medical education, residency training, and medical practice.
Loving ourselves: The gay and lesbian guide to self-esteem by Kimeron N. Hardin; Joe Kort (Foreword by)
Call Number: MEH EST LOVOUR
ISBN: 9781593500450
Publication Date: 2008-03-01
An updated, commercially-viable version of the definitive book on self-esteem for the LGBT community. This groundbreaking book sets out to explore the cultural underpinnings of problems of low self-esteem. Through thoughtful discussion of negative messages from family, religious and social institutions, Dr Hardin provides a starting point for determining how self-esteem affects one's life.
Seeing patients unconscious bias in health care by Augustus A. White & David Chanoff
Call Number: DIV CULHU SEEING
ISBN: 9780674049055
Publication Date: 2011-01-15
This book brings together insights from the worlds of social psychology, neuroscience, and clinical practice to define the issues clearly and, most importantly, to outline a concrete approach to fixing this fundamental inequity in the delivery of health care.
Same-sex domestic violence: Strategies for change by Sandra E. Lundy (Editor); Beth Leventhal (Editor)
Call Number: VIO DOM SAMSEX
ISBN: 0761903224
Publication Date: 1999-09-22
This comprehensive resource book examines a broad range of issues that confront the victims of same-sex domestic violence and those who offer them services. Chapters include topics of practical concern, HIV, same-sex domestic violence, establishing safe-home networks for battered gay men, courtroom advocacy, coalition building and dating violence prevention.
When the drama club is not enough: Lessons from the Safe Schools Program for Gay and Lesbian Students by Jeff Perrotti; Kim Westheimer
Call Number: VIO SSCH WHEDRA
ISBN: 9780807031315
Publication Date: 2002-08-16
When the Drama Club Is Not Enough presents the work of two young activists who have been at the forefront of the successful Safe Schools Program for Gay and Lesbian Students in Massachusetts, a model for states and school districts nationwide.
Gender, Bullying, and Harassment by Elizabeth J. Meyer
Call Number: VIO BUL GENBUL
ISBN: 9780807749531
Publication Date: 2009-04-23
While there have been countless studies of bullying and harassment in schools, none have examined the key gender issues related to these behaviours. In her new book, Meyer does just that and offers readers tangible and flexible suggestions to help them positively transform the culture of their school and reduce the incidences of gendered harassment.
Boy V. Girl? by George Abrahams; Sheila Ahlbrand
Call Number: 305.3
ISBN: 1575421046
Publication Date: 2002-06-01
What does it mean to be a boy or a girl? Based on a nationwide survey, this book invites young readers to examine gender roles and stereotypes, overcome gender barriers, and be themselves.
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves by Laura Erickson-Schroth & Jennifer Finney Boylan
Call Number: PHY WELL TRANS
ISBN: 9780199325351
Publication Date: 2014-06-10
A comprehensive, reader-friendly guide for transgender people, with each chapter written by transgender or genderqueer authors. Each chapter takes the reader through an important transgender issue, such as race, religion, employment, medical and surgical transition, mental health topics, relationships, sexuality, parenthood, arts and culture, and many more.
LGBTQ Cultures : What Health Care Professionals Need to Know About Sexual and Gender Diversity, 3rd ed. by Michele J. Eliason, Michele J; Peggy L. Chinn
Publication Date: 2018
This vital guide fills the LGBTQ awareness gaps, including replacing myths and stereotypes with facts, and measuring the effects of social stigma on health. Vital for all nursing specialties, this is the seminal guide to actively providing appropriate, culturally sensitive care to persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities.