
‘Death investigators’ key part of LGBTQ+ health equity research
🏳️🌈 PRIDE MONTH: No standard statistics exist to record the number of deaths each year for those who identify as LGBTQ+. Their lives — and deaths — are literally not counted.
🏳️🌈 PRIDE MONTH: No standard statistics exist to record the number of deaths each year for those who identify as LGBTQ+. Their lives — and deaths — are literally not counted.
🏳️🌈 PRIDE MONTH: First-of-its-kind Proud & Empowered offers prevention and reduction approach for traumatic adolescent experiences.
🏳️🌈 PRIDE MONTH: A Trojan’s new documentary tells the story of a USC Dornsife professor who took a public stand against gay conversion therapy.
🏳️🌈 PRIDE MONTH: Actor JP Karliak launched Queer Vox, a nonprofit training academy and community for LGBTQ+ voiceover actors.
🏳️🌈 PRIDE MONTH: When Charli Gross expressed concerns over his program’s LGBTQ+ course section, the professor quickly acknowledged Gross’ criticism to the class and started the updating process.
🏳️🌈 PRIDE MONTH: Trojans get creative after a visit to the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, writing scenes based on a collection of photos from a 1950s gay wedding in Philadelphia.
🏳️🌈 PRIDE MONTH: Students, faculty and staff share personal reflections about finding and building community.
🏳️🌈 PRIDE MONTH: USC Dornsife’s Natalia Molina reveals the story of her grandmother’s Echo Park restaurant — a beloved L.A. landmark that once provided much-needed acceptance for a diverse group of Angelenos.
PRIDE MONTH: Kickoff on June 1 includes virtual event sharing personal stories and Keck Hospital of USC flag-raising ceremony.
COMMENCEMENT 2022: COVID-19, a racial reckoning, the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes and anti-LGBTQ+ laws created a challenging climate for these students’ academic journeys.
USC has the largest archive of LGBTQ materials in the world, and researchers use it every year to learn more about gay history and culture.
Why are there no more lesbian bars in Los Angeles? That simple question piqued Marisa Turesky’s interest.
The Pride Month Celebration will feature a variety of speakers sharing personal stories of inspirational LGBTQ+ people in their lives or careers.
The poet and performer wants his art and his own experiences as a Black, queer undergrad to help guide underrepresented members of the USC student community.
After surveying USC students, the center’s leaders adopted a new name that includes the entire community.
The USC Center for LGBTQ+ Health Equity focuses on research and education to help close gaps in health care for the community.
Two graduates of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work have partnered with one of their professors to help break down the barriers to quality, prejudice-free health care.
As we celebrate Pride Month, USC Dornsife faculty give their top choices of books and essays written by or featuring members of the LGBTQ community.
Monday’s landmark decision could extend protections to others, as well.
Both Keck Medical Center — which includes Keck Hospital of USC and USC Norris Cancer Hospital — and USC Verdugo Hills Hospital received the maximum score from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
USC researchers to recruit 1,500 teens in all 50 states and then follow them for three years.
Health Equity Initiative brings together experts to advance studies for a population whose members have dramatically higher rates of mental and behavioral health problems than their peers.