Love Yourself, Intimately
What you need to know about your sexual health.
BY DR. SHERRY A. ROSS
ADVICE
It’s never easy for a queer woman to see her healthcare provider for an annual gyno exam. Being an OB-GYN for the past 24 years, I see this reluctance and discomfort all the time. Being a lesbian OB-GYN, I feel even more sensitive to this problem and hopeful that I can change the minds of lesbians who have had traumatic gyno experiences and are not getting the healthcare they need. Let’s be honest: The majority of doctors are not sensitive to the issues surrounding the LGBTQ community.
Lesbian and bisexual women feel afraid and apprehensive about getting healthcare. Reasons include confidentiality and disclosure issues, uncertainty about their healthcare needs and risks, limited access to healthcare and health insurance, and discriminatory attitudes and treatment from healthcare providers. Know your rights. All healthcare providers must provide the same complete medical care to all their patients, including lesbian, bisexual, and transgender women.
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About Curve
This is our Love issue, and inside we celebrate many formal
expressions of love and commitment from diverse couples in
different locations. We also remind readers to safeguard their
health—sexual, psychological, and physical—which still needs
to be maintained even within a committed relationship. Love
isn’t as random as Cupid’s arrow. Getting it and keeping it need
to be worked at. Decades of activism and visibility gave us the
right to formalize our romantic unions—and vigilance will give
us the right keep it.