LGBT Wellness Roundup: October 5

As published on Huffington Post’s new LGBT Wellness blog, see original at: http://ow.ly/DhVNO

Each week HuffPost Gay Voices, in a partnership with bloggers Liz Margolies and Scout, brings you a round up of some of the biggest LGBT wellness stories from the past seven days. For more LGBT Wellness, visit our page dedicated to the topic here. The weekly LGBT Wellness Roundup can also now be experienced as a video — check it out above.

• 1
  Vaccines: Not Just For The Kiddies
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  Research has shown that the HPV vaccine does have benefits for sexually active adult gay men to prevent cancer, not just youth who have been the focus of most vaccination campaigns.
• 2
  New Mexico Convenes Large LGBTQ Health Summit
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  If you weren’t in New Mexico last Saturday you missed the biggest LGBT health event this week, next year!
• 3
  CA Leads
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  California has passed four new laws that promote health in the lgbt population: banning “panic” defenses, trans identities will be respected on death certificates, police are no longer allowed to use condoms as justification for arrests of sex workers (and anyone else they may choose) and LGBT cultural competency requirements for health care providers.
• 4
  How Discrimination Creates Poverty
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  A new report by the Movement Advancement Project illustrates the negativeeconomic effects of anti-LGBT laws on LGBT individuals and families.
• 5
  Counting Our Families
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  The Williams Institute has released two new studies using data from the NHIS to measure LGBT marriages and families and other compares measures of LGBT populations across several studies.
• 6
  UNHRC LGBT
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  The UN’s Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution against anti-LGBT violence and discrimination, with the usual suspects voting against the resolution.
• 7
  Our Elders
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  A new study by University of Minnesota researchers outlines health disparities common in older same-sex couples who live together, while NYU researchers published a study citing harm and neglect experienced by LGBT elders by caregivers