Lesbian health fund - glma's lesbian health fund (lhf) makes direct grants to fund lesbian health research and is the world's only research fund solely dedicated to the unique health needs of lesbians and sexual minority women. In 2019, lhf awarded four grants totaling more than $30,000 to support lesbian health research, specifically to study minority stress and reproductive strategies among female same-sex couples; parent-child lgbq socialization, mental health, and substance use among sexual minority women age 15-19; a community-based approach to qualitatively understanding barriers faced by lesbian individuals when accessing care; and reproductive health equity promotion for sexual minority women. Since its founding in 1992, lhf has provided more than $1 million in funding for this important research. Lhf grantees have gone on to secure tens of millions of dollars more in additional funding from a variety of sources for follow-on studies, made possible because of findings from their lhf-funded research.

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