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Anchor Health is a ‘safe haven’ amongst growing obstacles for LGBTQ+ healthcare

To read the full story with all multimedia elements, click here: https://qu-journalism-anchor-health.shorthandstories.com/anchor-health-is-a-safe-haven-amongst-obstacles-for-lgbtq-healthcare/index.html The Anchor Health Initiative started in a supply closet. Patricia Chadwick, A.C. Demidont, Jean Doyen de Montaillou and David Grimes founded Anchor Health on May 4, 2016, — which provides non-discriminatory healthcare to the LGBTQ+ community. They found the resources for LGBTQ+ health…

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LGBTQ Pride? Progress on some issues and not on others

In the early 2000s, Andrew Peralta knew he was gay, but he remembers clearly the five students at Hamden High that had come out.  “It was very distressing and confusing because if you felt you were different, or that you were possibly gay, you certainly couldn’t be out at all,” he recalled. “Being gay was…