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University News
October 15, 2014 | 06:13 pm

University to provide transition-related health care benefits

The Health Plan Committee, which evaluates new proposals for inclusion in the University’s health program offerings, recently approved this expansion of benefits to enrolled employees and their covered family members. The benefit will cover medically necessary transition-related coverage, including hormone therapy, medical and psychological counseling, and gender affirmation surgery.

topics: announcements, LGBTQI, Susan B. Anthony Center,
University News
October 15, 2014 | 03:07 pm

UR Medicine a leader in LGBT health care

Strong Memorial and F.F. Thompson Hospitals are the only Western New York hospitals to earn this distinction from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRCF), , which is the nation’s largest organization devoted to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender civil rights issues.

topics: announcements, LGBTQI, Strong Memorial Hospital, UR Medicine,
The Arts
August 26, 2014 | 04:02 pm

International celebration honors work of scholar, activist Douglas Crimp

Leading scholars, artists, and critics from around the world will gather at the Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art in Berlin on August 28 to celebrate the work of Douglas Crimp, who turned 70 this month. Known for his work as an art critic, theorist, curator, and activist, his work was instrumental in the development of the field of queer studies.

topics: AIDS, Department of Art and Art History, Douglas Crimp, events, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, LGBTQI, School of Arts and Sciences, sexuality,
Society & Culture
November 29, 2012 | 05:32 pm

Growing World’s Largest Collection of AIDS Posters

To mark World AIDS Day on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, more than 1,000 new posters from one of the world’s largest AIDS education poster collections have been digitized and put online by archivists at the University of Rochester.

topics: Edward Atwater, HIV and AIDS, LGBTQI,
Featured
October 10, 2012 | 08:39 pm

Archive Captures 40 Years of the Gay Rights

When the University of Rochester’s Gay Liberation Front launched the Empty Closet in 1971, they knew that distributing a newspaper advocating “the freedom to love” same-sex partners was a radical act.

topics: announcements, Empty Closet, LGBTQI, Upward Bound,