Latest Gayhealth Podcast Episodes
2024 Era Episode 2.5: TDOV Guest Matt Palmer
Pride In Our Health - March 31, 2024 13:39 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsMarch 31st is Transgender Day of Visibility! In our second TDOV episode, we interview Matt Palmer, Fenway Health's Special Events Coordinator. Matt is a proud trans man who loves coffee, the outdoors, books, movies, and animals. He started his career at Fenway as the Community Educator and Recru...
2024 Era Episode 2: TDOV Guest Steph DeNormand
Pride In Our Health - March 28, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsMarch 31 is International Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV), which commemorates the achievements and resilience of transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) people around the world, including our own staff, patients, and supporters. For Fenway Health and our Trans Health Program, it is also a ...
2024 Era Episode 1: Community Advocate Kelvin Powell
Pride In Our Health - February 07, 2024 15:30 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe Pride in our Health Podcast is BACK! February 7, is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day–a day dedicated to raising awareness of the disproportionate impact of HIV on Black Americans and the importance of increasing access to HIV education, testing, treatment, and prevention services. Tod...
Gyn & Tonic: Everyone's Got HPV
Pride In Our Health - September 12, 2023 11:48 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWe have a special treat for you this week. Fenway Health Obstetrician and Gynecologist Supraja Rajagopalan is one half of Gyn & Tonic, a podcast featuring intimate convos with your Gynecologist besties. Every Thursday, Supraja and her best friend Sara address the questions you wish you could ask...
Episode 27: Boston Pride For The People
Pride In Our Health - March 13, 2023 19:09 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsOn June 10, 2023, Boston will celebrate Pride Month with a citywide parade for the first time since 2019. It’s been four years after the COVID-19 pandemic first shuttered Pride celebrations and two years since Boston Pride leadership chose to dissolve the organization amid community criticism ov...
Episode 26: Addressing Inequities in Vaccine Trials
Pride In Our Health - February 16, 2023 20:45 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsFrom the long search for an HIV cure to the recent breakthroughs in COVID-19 vaccines, clinical trials have always been a critical part of the response to any public health crisis. People who volunteer for groundbreaking vaccine trials are helping make the future healthier for all of us. But wha...
Episode 25: Antibodies and the Search for Two Cures
Pride In Our Health - December 20, 2022 20:26 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn recent years, the use of antibodies in vaccines has expanded beyond medical journals and scientific papers to become a topic of mainstream news. The COVID-19 pandemic created intense public interest in the power of antibodies. But long before COVID became a household name, researchers began e...
Episode 24: Breast Cancer and the LGBTQIA+ Community
Pride In Our Health - October 11, 2022 16:57 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsOctober marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a time to raise public awareness about the impact of breast cancer, show support for those affected by the disease, and encourage regular preventative screenings, such as mammograms. Breast cancer can affect anyone, regardless of sex assigned at birth...
Episode 23: Monkeypox: Just the Facts
Pride In Our Health - July 29, 2022 17:53 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn recent weeks, media reports on monkeypox - a rare pox virus typically carried by rodents in Central and Western Africa - have skyrocketed as unusual outbreaks have occurred in Europe, North America, Israel, and Australia. With monkeypox now declared to be a global health emergency, public con...
Episode 22: The Fenway Gala
Pride In Our Health - May 17, 2022 19:32 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsSince the early 1990s, Fenway Health’s annual fundraising galas have been cornerstones of the greater Boston LGBTQIA+ community’s social calendar. The Dinner Party, created in 1992, was a formal and fun evening to raise vital funding for Fenway, to shine a spotlight on women’s health, and to thr...
Episode 21: The 2022 US Trans Survey
Pride In Our Health - April 14, 2022 20:15 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn 2015, nearly 28,000 people took the US Trans Survey, the largest survey of trans folks ever in the US. It was a major milestone in the collection of data on the lived experiences of a community that has been historically been both under and misrepresented in this country. Much has happened ...
Episode 20: Transgender and Gender Diverse Health Care: The Fenway Guide
Pride In Our Health - March 08, 2022 14:55 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsRight now, the United States is seeing an unprecedented number of anti-transgender legislation being introduced and signed into law. These hateful bills use disinformation and scare tactics to paint a wildly inaccurate picture of trans and gender diverse people, and directly attack the life-savi...
Episode 19: Racial Equity Action Plan
Pride In Our Health - January 11, 2022 15:06 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsOver the past two years, America has in many ways been forced to look itself in the mirror. The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare widespread health care inequities and the devastating impact they have on low-income and BIPOC communities. The murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Daunte Wright, and ...
Episode 18: The 40 Year War: Taking the Battle Against AIDS to the Streets
Pride In Our Health - November 30, 2021 21:04 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsDecember 1 marks World AIDS Day, a time to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and honor those we have lost to the epidemic. In the early days of the AIDS crisis, many of our friends, family, co-workers, and other loved ones were suffering and dying from this horrible disease. Fear and discrimination...
A Queer Dharma - Yoga & Meditation for LGBTQ+ Individuals - Episode Twelve
Naked Nutrition - The LGBTQ+ Health Podcast - November 16, 2021 11:41 - 40 minutesJacoby Ballard is a social justice educator and yoga teacher who leads workshops and trainings around the country on diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a yoga teacher with 20 years of experience, he leads workshops, retreats, teacher trainings, teaches at conferences, and runs the Resonance me...
Episode 17: Transgender Health Care Today
Pride In Our Health - November 09, 2021 19:17 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsNovember is Transgender Awareness Month, a time to honor our transgender and gender diverse community and recommit to making the world a safer and more equitable place for all – including in health care. Last episode, we learned about the founding and early years of our Trans Health Program and ...
Episode 16: Building a Transgender Health Program
Pride In Our Health - October 27, 2021 19:10 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsNovember is almost here, and with it comes the annual Transgender Awareness Month. This month honors our vibrant transgender and gender diverse community, celebrates the progress made for transgender rights, and shines a light on the discrimination and violence still faced by transgender people....
Episode 15: Creating Community for LGBTQ+ People of Color
Pride In Our Health - September 30, 2021 04:25 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis year marks 50 years since Fenway Health was founded by activists and nursing students who shared a common belief: that health care is a right, not a privilege. Fenway’s history isn’t just about the building of a health center, however – it’s about the building of a community. We are forever...
Episode 14: Leading a Growing Health Center
Pride In Our Health - September 13, 2021 20:05 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIt has been said that great things come from small beginnings. Here at Fenway Health, our small beginning was in a humble basement clinic, dreamed up by neighborhood activists and staffed by volunteer nursing students. The folks who founded Fenway Health in 1971 had a belief: that health care is...
Episode 13: The Audre Lorde Cancer Awareness Brunch
Pride In Our Health - September 03, 2021 01:09 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIf the past year and a half has taught us anything, it’s that community – finding it, building it, and celebrating it – is essential for all of us. It is in that spirit that Fenway Health’s Women’s Health Team will host the 23rd Annual Audre Lorde Cancer Awareness Brunch virtually on October 16,...
Transgender & Hormone Therapy - Episode Eleven
Naked Nutrition - The LGBTQ+ Health Podcast - August 24, 2021 09:25 - 54 minutesMary Burke is the director of clinical services and senior nurse prescriber at The London Transgender Clinic. Mary works alongside a varied multidisciplinary team that includes gender specialist psychiatrists, psychologists and endocrinologists to provide a comprehensive, compassionate and sup...
Episode 12: Social Transition and Mental Health Outcomes for Trans Youth
Pride In Our Health - August 18, 2021 00:51 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsTransgender and gender diverse youth have been making a lot of headlines lately. In many cases, the news is good: trans youth are finding community, seeing more visibility in media, and getting more chances to tell their stories. All too often, however, trans youth are being used as pawns in the...
Anal Care - Episode Ten
Naked Nutrition - The LGBTQ+ Health Podcast - July 21, 2021 15:50 - 47 minutesDr. Evan Goldstein is a nationally renowned anal surgeon and the Founder and CEO of Bespoke Surgical, the leading private practice specialising in an elite standard of sexual health and wellness care in New York City. His practice caters to a wide range of clientele; however, the majority of his...
Hair Loss Surgery - Episode Nine
Naked Nutrition - The LGBTQ+ Health Podcast - July 09, 2021 15:01 - 52 minutesDr. Dilan Fernando is a hair transplant surgeon and medical director at The Treatment Rooms London. Dr Fernando is also an Executive Committee member of the British Association of Hair Restoration Surgery upholding and driving its stringent professional code of conduct when it comes to perform...
Body Dysmorphia - Episode Eight
Naked Nutrition - The LGBTQ+ Health Podcast - June 30, 2021 09:26 - 49 minutesIn this episode, we speak to David Weale about Body Dysmorphia in the gay community. We discuss the root cause, how to identify it as an issue and steps you can take to overcome it. David Weale is a psychotherapist and psychotherapeutic counsellor. He is a member of UKCP and BACP. Coming from ...
Hair Loss - Episode Seven
Naked Nutrition - The LGBTQ+ Health Podcast - June 17, 2021 16:00 - 40 minutesWe talk to Dr Luke Pratsides, who discusses the causes of hair loss. Dr Pratsides discusses the treatment options for those wanting to prevent further hair loss. Dr Luke Pratsides is Lead GP at Numan and also works for the NHS in East London. He’s dedicated to digital healthcare and commit...
Perfectionism - Episode 6
Naked Nutrition - The LGBTQ+ Health Podcast - June 10, 2021 10:14 - 49 minutesTom Sobel is a psychotherapist in private practice in London. He is experienced in treating depression, anxiety, low self esteem, trauma/ PTSD, grief and loss, life changes, sexuality, LGBTQ+ issues, stress, panic disorder and improving confidence. In this episode, we go into depth about the ...
Episode 11: Reflecting on 40 Years of AIDS
Pride In Our Health - June 04, 2021 16:03 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsOn June 5, 1981, the CDC published a note in their Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report that five gay men in Los Angeles had been treated for a rare fungal infection of the lungs caused by a severely weakened immune system. What nobody knew at that time was that this would be the first official...
Episode 10: A Look at Fenway Health History
Pride In Our Health - May 03, 2021 15:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIt has been said that great things come from small beginnings. Here at Fenway Health, our small beginning was in a humble basement clinic, dreamed up by neighborhood activists and staffed by volunteer nursing students. The folks who founded Fenway Health in 1971 had a belief: that health care is...
Episode 10: The AstraZeneca Vaccine Trial
Pride In Our Health - January 20, 2021 16:09 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsA year after the COVID-19 virus was first identified, the world is finally seeing its first vaccinations – and with them, signs of hope – that this devastating pandemic could finally come to an end. This is the result of tireless work by researchers around the world. We are proud to say that som...
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