Out in the Mountains

Lesbian Health
Project Conducts
Survey

The Lesbian Health Project of Los An-
geles is conducting a national lesbian
and bisexual women’s health survey.
Co-sponsored by lesbian and feminist
health organizations around the coun-
try, the survey is the largest of it kind
ever conducted.

Distributed to over 100,000 women at
the 1993 March on Washington and
through health organizations throughout
the country, the survey is an attempt to
get a clearer understanding of lesbian’s
true risks for cancer and other health
concerns. “We have very little health
data on lesbians”, said Suzann Gage,
RNCNP, OB/GYN nurse practitioner,
director of the Lesbian Health Project of
LA and coordinator of the survey.
“Women health surveys never include
questions about sexual orientation to see
if lesbians, as a group, like other sub

groups of women, may indeed be at ’

greater risk for cancers and other health
problems....we hope this study will help
shed more light on actual rates of breast
cancer in lesbians, as well as important
directions in lesbian health education,
prevention, and empowerment.”

Individuals or groups wanting surveys to
distribute can contact the Lesbian Health
Survey at (213) 650-1508. V

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