“Continued Disparities in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Research Funding at NIH”

“Since its inception, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has possibly spent more dollars on research to cure and treat homosexuality and “gender identity disorder” than to understand and address the concerns of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals. Previous articles, including the one by Coulter et al.¹ from earlier this year, have documented this lack of attention on the real and pressing concerns of these communities extending beyond HIV/AIDS. Our analysis of NIH’s fiscal year 2012 funding portfolio supports the findings of previous publications summarizing the bleak state of funding for LGB health research”

 http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2014.302265?af=R&