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First, tomorrow (Tuesday)  is not only Super Tuesday for California, but also the last day to vote in the APA election. It's easy-- go topsych.organd put in the access code sent to you in an email from the
APA, or on your APA mailed ballot. Vote early and often (that is, vote in both the APA election and the California primary).  Ballots must be cast electronically by 2pm PST!
APA's Annual Meeting is coming up in D.C. in early May, and with it, the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists annual meeting. See http://aglp.org for details, and don't forget to renew your membership, if you haven't already.
This Saturday is a meeting that sounds interesting:
*Please note: **The location for this program has been changed to SFCP Auditorium,
2340 Jackson Street, 4th Floor, San Francisco (entrance on Webster Street)

*SAN FRANCISCO CENTER FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS

**A DAY WITH ADRIENNE HARRIS, Ph.D.
The Flexible Body and the Transgendered Self

*What began in the margins and was often lived out in isolation and uncertainty  the experience of transgender  now calls into question all subject positions. Thinking of the large scale meaning in our culture, and the micro-level meaning for any individual and their intimate kin, requires subtle and complex ideas about identity, about trans, about gender, and about history.
I want first to think about transgender as we  analysts, gendered beings, cultural theorists, and activists  are called to encounters in which we must throw our own material beings and subjectivity deeply into question. We must keep a model in play that incorporates history, class and resources, psychic formation, medical technology, information technology, family systems, and regulatory practices, large and small.  I try to consider these conceptual issues in the light of clinical experience, including case material and excerpts from Jonathan Caourette 2004 documentary film "Tarnation".

*Adrienne Harris, Ph.D.**,* is Clinical Associate Professor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and is a Visiting Scholar at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.
She is an Associate Editor of  *Psychoanalytic Dialogues*, and a Consulting Editor for *Studies in Gender and Sexuality*. She has co-edited with Lewis Aron, *The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi,* and *Storms in Her Head: Freud and the Construction of Hysteria* with Muriel Dimen. Her book on developmental theory and chaos theory, *Gender as a Soft Assembly*, was published in 2005.

*Discussant:
Susan Stryker, Ph.D.,* Emmy Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker; Woodward
Visiting Endowed Chair in Women's Studies, Simon Fraser University,
Vancouver & Lecturer, U.C. Berkeley, Dept. of  Gender and Women Studies.

*Case Presentation:
Michael Feldman, M.D.*, Member and  Faculty, Columbia University
Psychoanalytic Training and Research Center.  Dr. Feldman will present a
22-year-old trans lesbian who began treatment at age 16.

*When: *Saturday, February 9, 2008
*Time: *9:00 A.M. - 3:30 P.M.
*Where: *SFCP Auditorium, 2340 Jackson St, 4th Floor, SF, CA (entrance on
Webster St.)
*CME: *6 CME credits
*PROGRAM:
*9:00 am  Registration
9:30 am  Introductions
9:50 am  Paper Presentation
11:15 am  Discussion
12 noon  Lunch
1:00 pm  Case Presentation and Discussion
3:30 pm  Ending Remarks
*Planning Committee:
*Gary Grossman, Ph.D., Milton Schaefer, Ph.D., Co-Chairs
Meryl Botkin, Ph.D.
Marilynne Kanter, Ph.D.
Michael Loughran, Ph.D.
Catherine Mallouh, M.D.
Erin Mullin, Ph.D.
Terrence Owens, Ph.D.
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Friday August 10th , Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights, monthly mixer. The Monthly Mixer is an opportunity for BAPHR's members to gather together in an informal environment to catch up with each other, mentor with students and house staff, and relax. The Monthly Mixer is usually held on the second Friday of each month at San Francisco's Mecca Restaurant, 2029 Market Street (between Church and Dolores) from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. However, for this month the mixer has moved to 2232 Market Street. For more information see www.baphr.org NCPS (Northern California Psychiatric Society) annual meeting will be from March 28-30, 2008 in Monterey. For more information see http://www.ncps.org/programs/AM08/annual08.html The NCPS LGBT committee has traditionally submitted one workshop. We are thinking of either submitting a workshop on psychotherapy issues for LGBT patients or on Reparative (conversion) therapy (we could show the new AGLP video on reparative therapy and have a discussion). If you have an interest in speaking about psychotherapy or conversion therapy, or would like to present a case or discuss a case, please let Gene Nakajima know as soon as possible. The deadline for submission is September 14th. Other conferences Future psychiatric meetings outside the US include Melbourne, Australia: Nov 28-Dec 2, 2007 www.wpa2007melbourne.com Prague Sep 19-25, 2008 WPA congress www.wpa-prague2008.cz The deadline for submission is Dec 17, 2007, 11 months before the meeting. If you want to be in a workshop or symposium on LGBT or HIV/AIDS issues, please contact Gene Nakajima by Nov 15, 2007 Paris Feb 6-9, 2008 a smaller European regional WPA conference. The deadline for submission is Oct 15, 2007. If you want to submit a workshop or symposium, please contact Gene Nakajima by Sept 15, 2007 www.wpa2008paris.com Buenos Aires Fall 2011 WPA Congress Here is your opportunity to educate psychiatrists outside the US. If you have any interest in speaking at one of the above conferences on LGBT or HIV issues contact Gnakajima@alumni.stanford.org Check out the revamped AGLP website at http://www.aglp.org Join/re-join while you're there!

May 2007

Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists
Activities at the APA Annual Meeting in San Diego May 18-24, 2007

At the APA Annual Meeting, AGLP has had a historically strong presence, presenting at workshops and symposia.   Check out the AGLP Annual Meeting newsletter online at www.aglp.org/images/newsletterPDF/AGLPNewsletterApr07.pdf   for details of all the LGBT AGLP, and APA events. 

Main Educational Events:  Our Annual Symposium: Substance Use Disorders in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Populations , begins at 8.30am on Saturday the 19th and runs until 1:00pm. Led by Mason Turner, MD, (Chief, Department of Psychiatry Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, San Francisco), Petros Levounis, MD, MA, (Director, The Addiction Institute of New York, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY), Jodi Prochaska, PhD, (The University of California, San Francisco) and Ali Hall, JD, (Director of Training: Walden House, Member: Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers, San Francisco), the topics will include epidemiology of substance use disorders, pharmacotherapy, treatment of nicotine dependence and motivational interviewing directed towards our LGBT populations.   Register for this course now!

Our Hospitality Suite is located in the Omni Hotel this year, across from the Convention Center. The Suite will house most of the AGLP-scheduled events for the meeting. New to the Hospitality Suite this year is a Media Training Session on LGBT Issues, presented by the Rockaway Institute and GLAAD; a session on Enhancing Cultural Competence featuring a new toolkit.   Discussion groups for Medical Student, Resident, and Early Career Psychiatrists, Psychiatrists of Color and International Psychiatrists, Women's Issues, and Parenting Issues, round out the schedule with time for social interaction and networking.

Main Social Activities:  The AGLP Annual Opening Reception will be at Hilton Gaslamp Hotel, 401 K St , Enclave Level, Santa Rosa Room this year on Sunday, May 20, from 7:00-9:00pm . Hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar will be provided. There is no admission charge.   The 21st Annual Closing Banquet and Awards Ceremony will be at the picturesque Prado at Balboa Park (1549 El Prado in the heart of Balboa Park ). RSVP now! Space is limited to 80 people, so get your RSVP in now!  For those arriving in San Diego early, a Welcome Reception is planned beginning at 7:30pm on Friday the 18th. The following evening, Saturday the 19th, the women will meet at 7:00pm for their annual Women's Dinner. ( RSVP for Women's Dinner now!)

In addition to the receptions listed above, an outing to hike in Torrey Pines Park with an optional extension to Black's Beach for significant others and psychiatrists is planned for Monday. Another event of note is a Chamber Music Concert, featuring the music of gay composer Virgil Thomson on Sunday at 4:00pm. This concert will be a prelude to Tuesday's Symposium on Modern Gay and Lesbian Identities at the San Diego Convention Center. Drs. Tommasini (Chief Classical Music Critic of the New York Times), Nakajima, Bullock, and Case will be featured performers.

While you are at the San Diego Convention Center, plan to visit the AGLP Booth, Number 334.  Both AGLP and non-AGLP members are welcome at our activities.    To register for the symposium, and the closing banquet, please go to www.aglp.org

CHAMBER MUSIC  CONCERT  in downtown San Diego of VIRGIL THOMSON and other Gay American Composers featuring Anthony Tommasini, piano
Chief Classical Music Critic of the New York Times and author of Virgil Thomson Composer on the Aisle & David Case, piano,  Clayton Bullock, violin and Gene Nakajima, clarinet Sunday,

1) Persistently Pastorale: Aaron Copland 2) Maurice Bavoux: Young and Alone 3) Jane Bowles: Early and As Remembered 4) Piano Sonata No. 2; Second Movement, Sostenuto (self portrait)  5) Tony Tommasini: A Study in Chords

April, 2007

First of all, congratulations to Ellen Haller, the new UCSF psychiatry residency training director!

Friday April 13th , Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights, monthly mixer. The Monthly Mixer is an opportunity for BAPHR's members to gather together in an informal environment to catch up with each other, mentor with students and house staff, and relax. The Monthly Mixer is held on the second Friday of each month at San Francisco's Mecca Restaurant, 2029 Market Street (between Church and Dolores) from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. For more information see www.baphr.org

INFORMATION ABOUT THE ASSOCIATION OF GAY AND LESBIAN PSYCHIATRISTS
This is a reminder to those of you who are not members of AGLP to please join and for those of you who are members to please update your membership. You can join or re-up on-line
http://www.aglp.org/

The NCPS newsletter will be sent by pdf to AGLP members in the next week, with details of the AGLP symposium on treating substance abuse in LGBT patients, on May 19 in San Diego, the Opening Reception on May 20, and the Awards Banquet on May 22.
Without our members, we cannot carry forward our important work, including
(1) publication of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy ( https://www.haworthpress.com/store/product.asp?sid=BFN4QWK5051R9JLR2MWT7S3QBHSVA570&sku=J236)
(2) our just released documentary DVD on reparative therapy: Abomination: Homosexuality and the Ex-Gay Movement (http://www.aglp.org/pages/videoappeal.html )
(3) selection of recipients for the American Psychiatric Associations's John E. Fryer Award for outstanding contributions to LGBT mental health (an award whose endowment was raised by AGLP)
(4) support and education for members, residents and medical students
(5) educating the public about LGBT mental health issues
Details  at http://www.aglp.org

JOBS AT WESTSIDE
Medical Director Division of Child, Youth & Family Programs
Westside Community Services is a nonprofit community based treatment center that focuses on outreach to minority communities in San Francisco, especially the African-American community. We have expanded our outpatient child and adolescent psychiatry program, and are seeking to hire an energetic BC/BE child psychiatrist for the position of Child Medical Director. Strong communication skills, demonstrated leadership abilities and a commitment to patient care are key requirements for this part time position. The ideal candidate would be an integral member of the treatment team, providing direct service, participating in clinical team meetings, providing crisis intervention and consulting with other providers. There is no call associated with this position.

Staff Psychiatrist
Staff psychiatrist will provide psychiatric consultation and treatment to patients in urgent need of psychiatric intervention and those undergoing treatment for substance abuse and mental health difficulties. The ideal candidate will be well versed in assessment, differential diagnosis, treatment planning and prescription of psychotropic medication as well as having an interest in teaching current staff and trainees. Working in a multi-disciplinary team format is essential as is comfort working with a minority, underserved population in a community setting.

Ronald C. Albucher, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer
Westside Community Services
1153 Oak Street
San Francisco, CA 94117

415.431.9000 ext. 340
FAX: 415.431.1813
email: ralbucher@westside-health.org

4) Future Events
APA Annual Meeting in San Diego from May 19-24, 2007.

4) PLEASE JOIN OR REJOIN THE APA AND NCPS
Please remember that you can ask for amnesty for past dues. If you are interested in rejoining the APA, please contact the NCPS office at www.ncps.org or www.psych .org

5) Other conferences
Future psychiatric meetings outside the US include

Melbourne, Australia: Nov 28-Dec 2, 2007 www.wpa2007melbourne.com Abstracts due April 30, 2007, please contact Gene by April 20, 2007 if you want to be part of a workshop.
Prague Sep 19-25, 2008 WPA congress www.wpa-prague2008.cz
Buenos Aires Fall 2011 WPA Congress
Here is your opportunity to educate psychiatrists outside the US. If you have any interest in speaking at one of the above conferences on LGBT or HIV issues contact Gnakajima@alumni.stanford.org

World Psychiatric Association Meeting, Melbourne, Australia. November 28-December 2, 2007. The WPA has smaller annual meetings inbetween the larger WPA psychiatric congresses happen every three years (next one in Prague in September 2008). The 2006 meeting was in Istanbul, and the 2007 meeting is in Melbourne. The deadline for submission to the WPA is April 30, 2007. If you are interested in presenting in a HIV or LGBT workshop, please contact Gnakajima@stanfordalumni.org with a title of your talk, 3 sentence description and contact info, including telephone number and email by April 20, 2007. He will try to group the submissions into workshops. For more information about the Melbourne meeting see www.wpa2007melbourne.com

6) JOBS
San Francisco Outpatient Community Mental Health
The City and County of San Francisco is currently recruiting for both part time and full time psychiatrists to work in adult outpatient services. Current positions are available in several of our clinic sites serving both adult and/or older adult populations. We are also recruiting for a psychiatrist to work with one of our more innovative recovery based intensive case management programs. Competative salary and excellent benefits. Interested applicants should contact Medical Director: Aaron Chapman, MD (415) 255-3418 aaron.chapman@sfdph.org

November/December 2006

Thanks to Gene for putting together the AGLP/NCPS LGBT newsletter. -Dan

Friday December 8th, Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights, monthly mixer. The Monthly Mixer is an opportunity for BAPHR's members to gather together in an informal environment to catch up with each other, mentor with students and house staff, and relax. The Monthly Mixer is held on the second Friday of each month at San Francisco's Mecca Restaurant, 2029 Market Street (between Church and Dolores) from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.   For more information see www.baphr.orgUpcoming Submission Deadlines for conferences IPS in New Orleans, AGLP Preconference in San Diego and WPA in Melbourne

IPS Meeting New Orleans October 11-14, 2007 , Submission deadline November 27, 2006.
Institute of Psychiatric Services (IPS) , the American Psychiatric Association's 2nd major meeting, is a mini-Annual APA meeting with many important and distinguished speakers. This coming year it will take place in New Orleans from October 11-14, 2007. If you are interested in presenting in an LGBT workshop, please send the title of your talk, a 3-4 sentence description of your talk and your contact info, including telephone number and email to Mark Townsend, MD mtowns@lsuhsc.edu . Submission deadline for workshops to the APA is December 4, 2006, so he will need this information by November 27, 2006 so that he will have enough time to meet the deadline. He will try to put people together in one or two workshops. For more information about the meeting, please see http://www.psych.org/edu/ann_mtgs/ips/07/index.cfm

AGLP Annual Symposium, San Diego. The symposium most likely will be on Saturday May 19th, 2007. This year the theme will be substance abuse treatment in the LGBT communities. If you would like to speak, or know someone who would like to speak, please contact Kenn Ashley, MD at Kashley820@aol.com and kashley@chpnet.org  or (212) 844-1864. Please send him the title or your talk, a 3-4 sentence description of your talk, 3 educational objectives, and your contact info, including telephone number and email by December 1st, 2006.  For more information about the APA meeting in San Diego see http://www.psych.org/edu/ann_mtgs/am/07/index.cfm

World Psychiatric Association Meeting, Melbourne, Australia. November 28-December 2, 2007. The WPA has smaller annual meetings inbetween the larger WPA psychiatric congresses happen every three years (next one in Prague in September 2008). The 2006 meeting was in Istanbul, and the 2007 meeting is in Melbourne. The deadline for submission to the WPA is April 30, 2007. If you are interested in presenting in a HIV or LGBT workshop, please contact Gnakajima@stanfordalumni.org with a title of your talk, 3 sentence description and contact info, including telephone number and email by April 1, 2007. He will try to group the submissions into workshops. For more information about the Melbourne meeting see www.wpa2007melbourne.comCheck out the most recent AGLP newsletter (October 2006) at www.aglp.org    INFORMATION ABOUT AGLP
AGLP is an organization of about 500 psychiatrists. Its activities include educational sessions and social events in conjunction with the APA's Annual Meeting. AGLP publishes a quarterly newsletter as well as the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy . Reduced membership fees for residents and medical students are available. For more information about AGLP, including how to join, please see www.aglp.org , or call (215) 222-2800 and ask for a brochure.  2) How to join AGLP

3) Current AGLP Projects:

a) APA Position Statement supporting same sex marriage
b)AGLP
Information services
Future AGLP events
APA/NCPS information
Other International Conferences
Jobs

2) How to Join AGLP
It is easy to join AGLP via credit card on our secure website www.aglp.org/pages/cmembership.html You can also print out the membership form at the website and fax it to (215) 222-3881 or mail it. You can also call (215) 222-2800. (If you are uncertain about your membership status, please feel free to call or email, but if you did not receive the January 2006 newsletter without a renewal notice, you have probably let your membership lapse).

a) APA position statement supporting same sex civil sex marriage
AGLP members provided critical support when the APA leadership sought our assistance in passing a resolution to endorse marriage equality last year. The APA is the first major, national medical association to pass such a resolution. The Associated Press (AP) reported on this historic event, and hundreds of newspapers including USA Today, the Washington Post and the New York Times reprinted the following article

www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-05-22-psychs-approve-gay-marriage_x.htm . AGLP has worked with the APA on a number of position statements including one on therapies focused on attempts to change sexual orientation and another on Adoption and co-parenting by Same-Sex couples see http://www.aglp.org/pages/position.html .

b) AGLP Information Services
AGLP continues to improve the distribution of information about LGBT mental health issues. Our website ( www.aglp.org) now contains back issues of our quarterly newsletters. It also contains a referral directory so that patients can identify LGBT friendly psychiatrists. Members also receive a hard copy of our Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy , and can download articles. Our voluntary online membership directory is a members-only benefit.

c) Future Events
APA Annual Meeting in San Diego from May 19-24, 2007.

4) PLEASE JOIN OR REJOIN THE APA AND NCPS
Please remember that you can ask for amnesty for past dues. If you are interested in rejoining the APA, please contact the NCPS office at www.ncps.org or www.psych .org

5) Other conferences
Future psychiatric meetings outside the US include
Madrid March 17-21, 2007 . http://www.kenes.com/aep2007/index.asp
Melbourne, Australia: Nov 28-Dec 2, 2007 www.wpa2007melbourne.com  Abstracts due April 30, 2007, please contact Gene by April 1, 2007 if you want to be part of a workshop. 
Prague Sep 19-25, 2008 WPA congress www.wpa-prague2008.cz
Buenos Aires Fall 2011 WPA Congress

Here is your opportunity to educate psychiatrists outside the US. If you have any interest in speaking at one of the above conferences on LGBT or HIV issues contact Gnakajima@alumni.stanford.org

6) JOBS
San Francisco Outpatient Community Mental Health
The City and County of San Francisco is currently recruiting for both part time and full time psychiatrists to work in adult outpatient services. Current positions are available in several of our clinic sites serving both adult and/or older adult populations. We are also recruiting for a psychiatrist to work with one of our more innovative recovery based intensive case management programs. Competative salary and excellent benefits. Interested applicants should contact Medical Director: Aaron Chapman, MD (415) 255-3418 aaron.chapman@sfdph.org .

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Happy Pride Weekend everyone!

As President of the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists (AGLP), I can tell you that this has been a great year, since the last Pride Festival, for AGLP and LGBT mental health activism. Last July, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) endorsed same sex civil marriage. In Toronto last month, I accepted on behalf AGLP the APA's Distinguished Service Award, for AGLP's efforts in promoting better mental health care and policy of LGBT people. And in Toronto, AGLP and the APA screened AGLP's just-completed documentary, "Abomination," on the dangers of reparative therapy.

This past year, AGLP successfully raised the money to endow the APA's newest honor, the John Fryer Award. The John Fryer Award was named after "Dr. Anonymous," the first psychiatrist to speak at an APA panel on being a gay psychiatrist. At that time, just 34 years ago, one could lose one's job and even one's medical license for being gay, so Dr. Fryer appeared in a Nixon mask and fright wig, and had his voice electronically altered. Dr. Fryer was recruited for this appearance by two pioneering activists, Frank Kameny and Barbara Gittings, who had been working to convince the APA to remove homosexuality from the DSM. The work of Fryer, Kameny, and Gittings, among others, was critical to raising the issue of removing homosexuality for the DSM.
At the APA's Institute for Psychiatric Services this October, Gittings and Kameny will be the recipients of the APA's first annual John Fryer Award, for their contributions to LGBT mental health. There will be an entire day of LGBT mental health presentations at IPS. For more info: http://psych.org/edu/ann_mtgs/ips/06/preliminaryprogram/2006_aglptrack.pdf

For more info, and to join AGLP, see: http://aglp.org
At the SF Pride Festival this Sunday, June 25, my spouse Tim (aka DJ Donimo) and I once again will be producing the Shadowplay Stage, SF Pride's indie music stage. This year, in addition to indie/electro/new wave DJs, we are bringing in The Ark, a Swedish glam rock band with a queer lead singer. The Ark recorded what may be the only rock song on gay parenting, "The Father of a Son," while Sweden was debating legalizing adoptions by gay and lesbian couples. Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntUpkgL2RBc
The Ark perform at 3:30pm at the Shadowplay Stage, at Hyde St, off Market St. Tim and I will be there all afternoon—stop by! Details on the Pride Festival are at http://sfpride.org
Once again, Happy Pride!!

Best,
Dan
Dan Karasic, MD Clinical Professor of Psychiatry 1001 Potrero Ave., Suite 7M San Francisco, CA 94110 (415)206-3809

May, 2006

Look forward to seeing many of you at the potluck in SF and at AGLP activities in Toronto.  If you haven't bought your plane ticket yet, United is having a sale now on certain flights (including Air Canada flights ticketed through United, and including some nonstops from San Francisco to Toronto).

If you haven't paid your AGLP dues for this year yet, or haven't yet joined or re-joined, please do so now at http:// www.aglp.org/pages/cmembership.html .  AGLP is doing lots of great things, but is running low on funds for operating expenses. We need your help! Thanks.

LGBT NCPS POTLUCK SUN 4/30 @ 10:30A

Lesbian Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) Committee of the Northern California Psychiatric Society (NCPS) will host a potluck for LGBT psychiatrists, welcoming Bay Area psychiatric residents, on Sunday April 30th between 10:30a to 12:30p.  Location:  855 Folsom St. # 736 Ring unit of Chase/Monroe.  The condo is in the Yerba Buena Lofts designed by the famous modern architect Stanley Saitowitz in 2002.  (http://www.techstrategy.com/lineonline/may02/nyren.html )   Dan Karasic, MD and Ellen Haller, MD will briefly describe the current activities of the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists and be available to answer questions. Feel free to bring children, spouses and friends.   Please bring food or drink to share, and a couple of bucks to pay for utensils and coffee.  (For those of you who would like to help plan future events, we'll have a planning meeting afterwards from 12:30p to 1:00p). RSVP to ncpslgbt@yahoo.com so we know approximately how many people will attend.  Feel free to forward this email to psychiatrists that we might not know, particularly if you are planning to attend. 

SUBMISSION DEADLINES AEP IN MADRID (MAY 8TH) AND GLMA IN SAN FRANCISCO (APRIL 19)

GAY AND LESBIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, SILVER ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE, SAN FRANCISCO, OCTOBER 11-14, 2006.
(Please note this is the week after the APA Institute of Psychiatric Services meeting October 5-8 in New York City. During this meeting, AGLP has organized a one day LGBT educational day on Saturday October 7th, and the AGLP Fall Business meeting will take place on Sunday October 8th). Submission deadline is April 19, 2006. If you are interested in being part of a workshop submission with other psychiatrists, please contact Gnakajima@alumni.stanford.org by April 12th. (If the submission doesn't work as part of a workshop, you can also submit individually). Last year, over 300 health professionals attended the GLMA meeting in Montreal. For the submission you will need a title, and a 150 word abstract. For details about the meeting, please see www.glma.org

ASSOCIATION OF EUROPEAN PSYCHIATRISTS (AEP) CONGRESS, MARCH 17-21, 2007 MADRID, SPAIN
Over 2,700 attended this year's (AEP) meeting in Nice, France, and over 75 people came to the one workshop on LGBT issues that AGLP organized. The deadline for submissions is May 8, 2006 for next year's meeting in Madrid. If you are interested in participating in a HIV or LGBT workshop, please contact Gnakajima@alumni.stanford.org by May 1, 2006 with a title, a three-sentence description, and your contact info. For details about the meeting see http://www.kenes.com/aep2007/index.asp

ASSOCIATION OF GAY AND LESBIAN PSYCHIATRISTS EVENTS IN APA MEETING, TORONTO MAY 20-25
At the Annual Meeting, AGLP will sponsor programming that could keep you busy every day focusing exclusively on LGBT issues!  Our Annual Meeting newsletter (edited by George Harrison)  should be on line (www.aglp.org) next week with the details.  Key events we welcome you to include the Opening Reception on Sunday night, the Closing Awards dinner on Wednesday night, and the annual day-long symposium on Sunday, May 21st, which will focus on the harms of conversion therapy. AGLP is being officially recognized with a Distinguished Service Award from the APA.  Social events include a dinner for women psychiatrists, a reception for child and adolescent psychiatrists, an outing for significant others, and a reception for medical students, residents, and early career psychiatrists.  The Annual Meeting is a fantastic opportunity for trainees to receive education and mentoring from AGLP members.  Since 2000, AGLP has raised over $25,000 to provide travel grants to 35 medical students to attend the Annual Meeting.  Only your support by joining AGLP allows us to organize the numerous LGBT  events at the APA meeting.  AGLP has grown tremendously in its accomplishments and vision over the recent years.  But, the greater our membership, the greater our voice will be within the APA and for the general LGBT communities.  AGLP continues to be a nurturing, safe, and accepting place for LGBT psychiatrists and allies, and we hope that you will help support our activities. 

It is easy to join via credit card on our secure website www.aglp.org/pages/cmembership.html  You can also print out the membership form at the website and fax it to (215) 222-3881 or mail it.  You can also call (215) 222-2800.   (If you are uncertain about your membership status, please feel free to call or email, but if you did not receive the January 2006 newsletter without a renewal notice, you have probably let your membership lapse). 

THE ASSOCIATION OF GAY AND LESBIAN PSYCHIATRISTS  (AGLP) is an organization of over 500 psychiatrists. Most recently we were instrumental in the APA's recent endorsement of same sex marriage. We are working on a film on reparative therapy, "Can I Change," and have raised money to endow a new annual APA award recognizing achievement in LGBT mental health, the John Fryer Award.

AGLP will also be involved with the other APA meeting, the Institute of Psychiatric Services , putting on a day of sessions on LGBT psychiatric care in New York, on  Oct. 7, 2006. Future APA/AGLP meetings: May 19-24, 2007 San Diego; May 3-8, 2008 Washington, DC; May 16-21, 2009 San Francisco.

PLEASE JOIN OR REJOIN THE APA TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR THEIR VOTE FOR SAME SEX MARRIAGE The NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PSYCHIATRIC SOCIETY (NCPS) is a district branch of the American Psychiatric Association. As you may know, the assembly of the American Psychiatric Association passed a resolution endorsing civil same sex marriage at the recent APA annual meeting. The APA is the first major medical organization to endorse same sex marriage. This vote received extensive media coverage, mostly because it was covered by the Associated Press (see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/22/AR2005052200785.html ) This Associated Press item was published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today and other major newspapers. Please remember that you can ask for amnesty for past dues. If you are interested in rejoining the APA, please contact the NCPS office at www. ncps.org or www.psych.org

Future psychiatric meetings outside the US include

• Istanbul July 12-16, 2006 www.wpa2006istanbul.org
• Melbourne, Australia: Nov 28-Dec 2, 2007 www.wpa2007melbourne.com
• Prague Sep 19-25, 2008 WPA congress www.wpa-prague2008.cz
• Buenos Aires Fall 2011 WPA Congress

Here is your opportunity to educate psychiatrists outside the US. If you have any interest in speaking at one of the above conferences on LGBT or HIV issues contact Gnakajima@alumni.stanford.org

If you have any suggestions for any future activities (talks, parties, activities, cultural events etc), let us know. We also need volunteers to host meetings at their homes. If you know any Bay area LGBT psychiatrists who are not receiving this email, please have them send an email to ncpslgbt@yahoo.com We currently have 150 people on our email list, but we know there are more out there

Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights, monthly mixer, Mecca 2029 Market St.  BAPHR is an organization for LGBT medical students and physicians. BAPHR  holds their monthly mixer on the 2nd Friday of every month. For more  information see www.baphr.org

April LGBT -- Potluck on Sunday

Hope to see folks Sunday. Thanks to Gene Nakajima for putting together the current newsletter:

PLEASE RSVP IF YOU ARE COMING TO THE LGBT NCPS POTLUCK SUN 4/30 @ 10:30A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Committee of the Northern California Psychiatric Society (NCPS) will host a potluck for all Bay Area LGBT psychiatrists (especially welcoming Bay Area psychiatric residents) on Sunday April 30th between 10:30a to 12:30p. Location: 855 Folsom St. # 736 Ring unit of Chase/Monroe. The condo is in the Yerba Buena Lofts designed by the famous modern architect Stanley Saitowitz in 2002. ( http://www.techstrategy.com/lineonline/may02/nyren.html) Feel free to bring children, spouses and friends. Please bring food or drink to share, and a couple of bucks to pay for utensils and coffee. (For those of you who would like to help plan future events, we'll have a planning meeting afterwards from 12:30p to 1:00p). RSVP to ncpslgbt@yahoo.com so we know approximately how many people will attend.

Addendum: After the potluck, some are planning to go the SF Ballet to see program #8 at 2p. For tickets see www.sfballet.org. Feel free to forward this email to psychiatrists that we might not know, particularly if you are planning to attend.

1. 1 AGLP events at the APA Meeting
2. 2) How to join AGLP
3. 3) Current AGLP Projects: a) John E. Fryer, MD Award b) AGLP Video on Conversion Therapies c) APA Position Statement supporting same sex marriage d) AGLP Information services e) Future AGLP events
4. 4) APA/NCPS information
5. 5) Association of European Psychiatry Meeting Madrid
6. 6) Other International Conferences
7. 7) BAPHR
8. 8) Jobs
   

1) ASSOCIATION OF GAY AND LESBIAN PSYCHIATRISTS EVENTS IN APA MEETING, TORONTO MAY 20-25
At the APA Annual Meeting, AGLP has historically had a presence hosting social events and presenting at workshops and symposium, but this coming meeting will be particularly special; AGLP is being officially recognized with a Distinguished Service Award from the APA! AGLP is sponsoring programming that could keep you busy every day, focusing exclusively on LGBT issues! Check out the AGLP Annual Meeting newsletter on line ( http://www.aglp.org/images/newsletterPDF/AGLPNewsletterApr06.pdf) with details of all the LGBT AGLP and APA events. The annual AGLP symposium on Sunday, May 21st will focus on the harms of conversion therapy. Social events include a dinner for women psychiatrists, a reception for child and adolescent psychiatrists, outings for significant others, and a reception for medical students, residents, and early career psychiatrists. The Annual Meeting is a fantastic opportunity for trainees to receive education and mentoring from AGLP members. Since 2000, AGLP has raised over $25,000 to provide travel grants to 35 medical students to attend the Annual Meeting. For more information surf over to our website at www.aglp.org

2) How to Join AGLP It is easy to join AGLP via credit card on our secure website www.aglp.org/pages/cmembership.html You can also print out the membership form at the website and fax it to (215) 222-3881 or mail it. You can also call (215) 222-2800. (If you are uncertain about your membership status, please feel free to call or email, but if you did not receive the January 2006 newsletter without a renewal notice, you have probably let your membership lapse).

3) Current Projects

a) John E. Fryer, MD Award We have almost completed raising $50,000 to endow the John E. Fryer, MD award for people who have made a significant impact on LGBT mental health. Honorees will be recognized at an APA meeting (alternating between the Annual Meeting and the Institute of Psychiatric Services (IPS)), and they will deliver one of the APA plenary talks that will be featured prominently in the APA program book. The first award will be presented at the APA IPS meeting on Saturday October 7th in New York City (For info, visit www.psych.org). AGLP has organized a day of programming on LGBT mental health at the IPS meeting along with two receptions. For more information, see https://mmm1929.dulles19-verio.com/aglpor/pages/fryerappeal.html For details of the educational program on

b) AGLP Video on conversion therapies AGLP is producing a video on the harmful effects of sexual orientation conversion therapies (so called "reparative" therapies). The film will describe these treatments through the stories of people who tried for years to become "ex-gays" and ultimately came to see their struggle as misdirected and harmful. We are now in post-production and are raising funds to pay for distribution costs. The video will be shown in Toronto at the AGLP Annual Symposium on Sunday May 21st and at the APA IPS meeting in New York City on Saturday October 7th. For more information see https://mmm1929.dulles19-verio.com/aglpor/pages/videoappeal.html.

c) APA position statement supporting same sex civil sex marriage AGLP members provided critical support when the APA leadership sought our assistance in passing a resolution to endorse marriage equality last year. The APA is the first major, national medical association to pass such a resolution. The Associated Press (AP) reported on this historic event, and hundreds of newspapers including USA Today, the Washington Post and the New York Times reprinted the following article www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-05-22-psychs-approve-gay-marriage_x.htm. AGLP has worked with the APA on a number of position statements including one on therapies focused on attempts to change sexual orientation and another on Adoption and co-parenting by Same-Sex couples see http://www.aglp.org/pages/position.html.

d) AGLP Information Services AGLP continues to improve the distribution of information about LGBT mental health issues. Our website ( www.aglp.org) now contains back issues of our quarterly newsletters. It also contains a referral directory so that patients can identify LGBT friendly psychiatrists. Members also receive a hard copy of our Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy, and can download articles. Our voluntary online membership directory is a members-only benefit.

e) Future Events If you are not attending the Toronto meeting, perhaps we will see you at the LGBT educational day (Saturday October 7th, 2006) at the Institute on Psychiatric Services in New York City (October 5-8); see www.psych.org for details about the IPS meeting; click on the most recent newsletter at www.aglp.org for information about the LGBT educational day; or at the following APA Annual Meeting in San Diego from May 19-24, 2007. cus of Homosexual-Identified Psychiatrists) has been recognized within the APA with a representative

4) PLEASE JOIN OR REJOIN THE APA AND NCPS Please remember that you can ask for amnesty for past dues. If you are interested in rejoining the APA, please contact the NCPS office at www.ncps.org or www.psych.org

5) SUBMISSION DEADLINES AEP IN MADRID (MAY 8TH) ASSOCIATION OF EUROPEAN PSYCHIATRISTS (AEP) CONGRESS, MARCH 17-21, 2007 MADRID, SPAIN Over 2,700 attended this year's (AEP) meeting in Nice, France, and over 75 people came to the one workshop on LGBT issues that AGLP organized. The deadline for submissions is May 8, 2006 for next year's meeting in Madrid. If you are interested in participating in a HIV or LGBT workshop, please contact Gnakajima@alumni.stanford.org by May 1, 2006 with a title, a three-sentence description, and your contact info. For details about the meeting see http://www.kenes.com/aep2007/index.asp

6) Other conferences Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, silver anniversary conference, san francisco, october 11-14, 2006. (www.glma.org )
Future psychiatric meetings outside the US include Istanbul July 12-16, 2006 www.wpa2006istanbul.org Melbourne, Australia: Nov 28-Dec 2, 2007 www.wpa2007melbourne.com Prague Sep 19-25, 2008 WPA congress www.wpa-prague2008.cz Buenos Aires Fall 2011 WPA Congress Here is your opportunity to educate psychiatrists outside the US. If you have any interest in speaking at one of the above conferences on LGBT or HIV issues contact Gnakajima@alumni.stanford.org

7) Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights, monthly mixer, Mecca 2029 Market St. BAPHR is an organization for LGBT medical students and physicians. BAPHR holds their monthly mixer on the 2nd Friday of every month. For more information see www.baphr.org

8) JOBS
San Francisco Outpatient Community Mental Health The City and County of San Francisco is currently recruiting for both part time and full time psychiatrists to work in adult outpatient services. Current positions are available in several of our clinic sites serving both adult and/or older adult populations. We are also recruiting for a psychiatrist to work with one of our more innovative recovery based intensive case management programs. Competative salary and excellent benefits. Interested applicants should contact Medical Director: Aaron Chapman, MD (415) 255-3418 aaron.chapman@sfdph.org."
SFGH Unit Chief psychiatrist position on our LGBT and HIV/AIDS focus inpatient unit at San Francisco General Hospital, a major teaching hospital of UCSF. A team leader position is also available. The Unit Chief will have a UCSF faculty appointment in the Clinical series commensurate with the person's background. Overseeing the care of 22 patients, the Unit Chief would supervise two full-time attending psychiatrist team leaders, who have on each team a PGY-1 resident and a MSW. Psychiatric residents and medical students rotate regularly through the unit. There are opportunities to develop programs, teaching materials and clinical research on the LGBT and HIV/AIDS focus. The second position is Team Leader attending psychiatrist of our Latino focus team. This position involves clinical care of 11 patients as part of a multidisciplinary team including a PGY-1 resident. Spanish-speaking capability is needed. We have recently increased our salary scale substantially and offer an excellent benefits package. California licensure is essential at time of appointment. Please contact Francis Lu, MD, at francislumd@aol.com for further information
If you have any suggestions for any future activities (talks, parties, activities, cultural events etc), let us know. We also need volunteers to host meetings at their homes.
If you know any Bay area LGBT psychiatrists who are not receiving this email, please have them send an email to ncpslgbt@yahoo.com We currently have 150 people on our email list, but we know there are more out there

March/April, 2006

March april 2006 NCPS LGBT news-- includes NCPS Annual Meeting info

LGBT Dinner and lunch at the Northern California Psychiatric Society Annual Meeting, Monterey, CA March 31-April 2, 2006 During the NCPS Annual Meeting we will organize a LGBT dinner on Saturday night April 1st at 6:15p at Stoke's Adobe Restaurant, 500 Hartnell St. www.stokesrestaurant.com We will also have a LGBT lunch at one of the restaurants at the Monterey Plaza Hotel, Schooners on Sunday at 12:30p. www.woodsidehotels.com/monterey/hotel-schooners.html (The restaurants are child friendly) If you are interested in going to either dinner or lunch, please email Hrubin_sf@yahoo.com or call (415) 246 0888 ASAP so we can have an accurate count. Please feel free to come even if you aren't attending the conference. During the conference, John Kruse MD, Ellen Haller, MD, Cindy Benton, MD and Sufen Chiu, MD are speaking in a workshop on LGBT family issues . For more information about the meeting, please see www.ncps.org (complete brochure is now available) Monterey is the most popular location for the NCPS annual meeting, and we hope to have a good attendance of LGBT psychiatrists.
Annual meeting of the Association of European Psychiatrists, Madrid March 17-21, 2007 http://www.kenes.com/aep2007/index.asp Proposals are due May 8, 2006. If you are interested in presenting on LGBT issues, please contact Gnakajima@alumni.stanford.org as soon as possible.

PLEASE JOIN OR REJOIN AGLP-- THE ASSOCIATION OF GAY AND LESBIAN PSYCHIATRISTS
The new Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists newsletter edited by San Francisco psychiatrist George Harrison, MD should be only soon at www.aglp.org This will contact the information about the annual meeting in Toronto.

(AGLP) is an organization of over 500 psychiatrists. Most recently we were instrumental in the APA's recent endorsement of same sex marriage. We are working on a film on reparative therapy, "Can I Change," and have raised money to endow a new annual APA award recognizing achievement in LGBT mental health, the John Fryer Award.
AGLP puts on a full week of LGBT events during the APA annual meeting, May 20-25, 2006 in Toronto. AGLP will also be involved with the other APA meeting, the Institute of Psychiatric Services, putting on a day of sessions on LGBT psychiatric care in New York, in Oct. 2006. Future APA/AGLP meetings: May 19-24, 2007 San Diego; May 3-8, 2008 Washington, DC; May 16-21, 2009 San Francisco.

While the organization is involved in more great work than ever before, a loss of a large grant that helped with meeting expenses, and a decline in folks renewing membership have put AGLP in a precarious financial position. Our work cannot continue without your help. Please consider joining or rejoining AGLP.
For information about the organization (and how to join online), please see http://www.aglp. org and http://aglp.org/pages/cmembership.html
Institute of Psychiatric Services Meeting, Oct 5-8, 2006, New York City.

Update on LGBT Mental Health at the Institute on Psychiatric Services, New York. NY Oct 7, 2006
First John E. Fryer, MD award to be presented

AGLP Fall Business Meeting, Oct 8, 2006
Over the past year, the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists (AGLP), LGBT psychiatrists, and the APA have raised $50,000 to endow the John E. Fryer, M.D. Award, for a public figure who has made significant contributions to LGBT mental health. Dr. Fryer was known as Dr. Anonymous when he gave a courageous speech at the APA's 1972 Annual Meeting, which led to the declassification of homosexuality as a mental illness. Barbara Gittings and Franklin Kameny, Ph.D., who were on the same panel as Dr. Fryer in 1972, will be recipients of the first award. (For more information on the Fryer award please see ( https://mmm1929.dulles19-verio.com/aglpor/pages/fryerappeal.html )
To honor the new award, the Institute on Psychiatric Services (IPS) will feature a day of programming on LGBT mental health on Saturday October 7 at the New York Marriot Marquis Hotel in Times Square. IPS is the APA's other major annual meeting. The IPS offers a daily registration fee category, so it is possible just to register for Saturday only. Since the time for the one-day session is coordinated with other IPS activities, you can attend other IPS workshops or symposia as well. The IPS is an interdisciplinary meeting. Please invite your non-psychiatric colleagues, including social workers, psychologists, and primary care physicians.

AGLP will also hold its fall business meeting on Sunday October 8, and sponsor two receptions during the IPS. The fall business meeting is open to all AGLP members. For full details, please see www.aglp.org. To register for the IPS see www.psych.org/IPS2006.
Preliminary Program:
Friday, October 6, 2006
APA LGBT Caucus and AGLP Meeting - 5:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Evening Reception (details to be announced)
Saturday, October 7, 2006
Invited Lectures - 8:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Lesbian and Gay Families
Scrambled Eggs: Psychological Issues in Lesbian Pregnancy and Parenting
Susan Vaughn, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University, faculty Columbia Psychoanalytic Institute, and author of The Talking Cure which explores the potential for neural plasticity in response to psychotherapeutic interventions. She will explore the various internal conflicts that lead lesbians to choose one reproductive technology over another and highlight major themes in lesbian considerations about pregnancy.
Gay and Lesbian Families: Data (and Papas and Mamas) and Diversity
Ellen Haller, MD, Professor, University of California, San Francisco. Some politicians, conservative organizations, and citizens are quite vocal about their opposition to gay men and lesbians as parents. The published scientific literature clearly demonstrates that what matters most to a child's healthy development is the way they are parented rather than the gender, number or sexual orientation of their parents.
Workshop-10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Sex and Sexuality and Special Populations Among Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual People
This workshop will focus on understanding the complex role that sexuality plays in the mental health of lesbians and gay men.
Robert Cabaj, MD, chair, Director, Community Behavioral Health Services, San Francisco, editor, Textbook of Homosexuality and Mental Health. He will focus on the explosive use and abuse of methamphetamine by gay men, and the debate about the role of sex and drugs in gay men's lives.
Robert Kertzner, MD, Research Psychiatrist, Columbia University. He will explore how LGB identity shapes the course of adult experience including single or partnered-life and sexuality with a focus on midlife.
Ronald Hellman, MD, Director LGBT programs, South Beach Psychiatric Center, Brooklyn. He will discuss sexuality in LGBT patients with major mental illness.
Samantha Kelleher, MD, Royal Columbia Hospital, New Westminster, British Columbia. She will discuss body image distortion in LGBT populations and the cultural influences on the presentation and development of eating disorders.
Lunch -11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
(no host, details to be announced)
John E. Fryer, MD Award Lecture - 1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m Gay, Proud, and Healthy: From Heresy to Humdrum
Franklin E. Kameny, Ph.D., Gay Rights Activist, and Barbara Gittings, Gay Rights Activist
Kameny and Gittings will provide an illustrated historical talk on their role as well as Dr. H. Anonymous in protesting and forcing the APA to examine scientific data in order to eliminate homosexuality as a mental illness in 1973.
Workshop - 3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Demons, Satan, Science, and Homosexuality: A Film Analysis
David L. Scasta, M.D., Co-chair, AGLP Film Task Force. This workshop will feature the AGLP produced film entitled "Can I Change," focusing on the harms of conversion or "reparative" therapy. Presenters also include Alicia Salzer, M.D, Mary Barber, MD , and Reverend Larry Waltz
Early evening reception for John E. Fryer, MD Award winners (details to be announced)

Sunday, October 8, 2006
AGLP Fall Business Meeting 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Open to all AGLP members who are interested in getting involved in the organization.
PLEASE JOIN OR REJOIN THE APA TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR THEIR VOTE FOR SAME SEX MARRIAGE The NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PSYCHIATRIC SOCIETY (NCPS) is a district branch of the American Psychiatric Association. As you may know, the assembly of the American Psychiatric Association passed a resolution endorsing civil same sex marriage at the recent APA annual meeting. The APA is the first major medical organization to endorse same sex marriage. This vote received extensive media coverage, mostly because it was covered by the Associated Press (see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/22/AR2005052200785.html ) This Associated Press item was published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today and other major newspapers. The same sex marriage policy will become official after the APA Board of Trustees votes in July. Most likely they will pass the resolution. Several conservative APA members will protest this decision by resigning their membership, and we need to show that the APA vote for same sex marriage will also attract members. . If you are not currently a member of the APA, please consider joining or rejoining. If you do join or rejoin, please write a letter to the APA stating that one of the reasons you are joining the APA is their stand for same sex marriage. If you are rejoining the APA, please remember that you can ask for amnesty for past dues. If you are interested in rejoining the APA, please contact the NCPS office at www. ncps. org or www.psych. org

Future psychiatric meetings outside the US include
Istanbul July 12-16, 2006 www.wpa2006istanbul.org
Melbourne, Australia: Nov 28-Dec 2, 2007 www.wpa2007melbourne.com Prague Sep 19,-25, 2008 WPA congress www.wpa-prague2008.cz
Buenos Aires Fall 2011 WPA Congress (Most psychiatrists outside the US have little training on LGBT issues. Here is your opportunity to educate psychiatrists outside the US. If you have any interest in speaking at one of the above conferences on LGBT or HIV issues contact Gene at Gnakajima@alumni.stanford.org )
If you have any suggestions for any future activities (talks, parties, activities, cultural events etc), let us know. We also need volunteers to host meetings at their homes.
If you know any Bay area LGBT psychiatrists who are not receiving this email, please have them send an email to ncpslgbt@yahoo.com We currently have 150 people on our email list, but we know there are more out there

Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights, monthly mixer, Mecca 2029 Market St. BAPHR is an organization for LGBT medical students and physicians. BAPHR holds their monthly mixer on the 2nd Friday of every month. For more information see www.baphr.org

Westside Clinic Openings There are 3 half time positions at Westside; preference for candidates who have an interest in teaching and supervising. Here are descriptions of the positions they are looking for: Staff Psychiatrist for Westside ACT program. 20 hours a week position. The Psychiatrist would provide psychiatric consultation to the ACT staff and administrators, conduct psychiatric assessments and provide ongoing treatment to ACT members in a community based outreach model. Staff Psychiatrist for psychiatric consultation and treatment to patients in urgent need of psychiatric intervention (at the Westside Crisis Clinic) and those undergoing combined substance abuse and mental health treatment (at the Westside Inner City New Directions Program). The ideal candidate will be well versed in crisis intervention, differential diagnosis, treatment planning and prescription of psychotropic medication as well as having an interest in teaching or supervising staff and trainees. Child Psychiatrist for the position of Medical Director of the Child, Youth and Family Division. Strong communication skills, demonstrated leadership abilities and a commitment to patient care are key requirements for this 20 hour a week position. The ideal candidate would be an integral member of the treatment team and would also conduct clinical team meetings, provide crisis intervention and consult with other providers regarding diagnoses and treatment. Contact : Ronald C. Albucher, M.D.,Chief Medical Officer,Westside Community Services, 1153 Oak Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 415.431.9000 ext. 340 FAX: 415.431.1813 email: ralbucher@westside-health.org
Unit Chief psychiatrist position on our LGBT and HIV/AIDS focus inpatient unit at San Francisco General Hospital, a major teaching hospital of UCSF. A team leader position is also available. The Unit Chief will have a UCSF faculty appointment in the Clinical series commensurate with the person's background. Overseeing the care of 22 patients, the Unit Chief would supervise two full-time attending psychiatrist team leaders, who have on each team a PGY-1 resident and a MSW. Psychiatric residents and medical students rotate regularly through the unit. There are opportunities to develop programs, teaching materials and clinical research on the LGBT and HIV/AIDS focus. The second position is Team Leader attending psychiatrist of our Latino focus team. This position involves clinical care of 11 patients as part of a multidisciplinary team including a PGY-1 resident. Spanish-speaking capability is needed. We have recently increased our salary scale substantially and offer an excellent benefits package. California licensure is essential at time of appointment. Please contact Francis Lu, MD, at francislumd@aol.com for further information.

NCPS LGBT march april news-- plus an amusing news story

Swan Lake Group Trip to see Matthew Bourne's production of Swan Lake Matthew Bourne's homoerotic production of Swan Lake has toured the world and is coming to San Francisco for the first time. It is well known for its company of sexy male swans and the prince who falls in love with a particular male swan. This is Ballet like you've never seen it before! For the first preview night on Tuesday March 21st, the tickets are only $45 (plus a $7.50 convenience charge if you buy it from Ticketmaster, no charge if you buy it at the box office of the Orpheum Theatre). It is a part of the Best of Broadway series at the Orpheum Theater, Hyde and Market St. at 8th st. To buy tickets see http://www.bestofbroadway-sf.com/ The show is at 8p. We will meet for dinner before the show at Soluna Cafe and Lounge, 272 McAllister (at Larkin) at 6:15p. Please RSVP to Gene Nakajima <gnakajima@stanfordalumni.org> so he can have an accurate count for dinner. Please buy your own tickets to the show.

Friday, March 10th, 6:30-8:00p Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights, monthly mixer, Mecca 2029 Market St. BAPHR is an organization for LGBT medical students and physicians. BAPHR holds their monthly mixer on the 2nd Friday of every month. For more information see www.baphr.org

PLEASE JOIN OR REJOIN AGLP-- THE ASSOCIATION OF GAY AND LESBIAN PSYCHIATRISTS www.aglp.org
(AGLP) is an organization of over 500 psychiatrists. Most recently we were instrumental in the APA's recent endorsement of same sex marriage. We are working on a film on reparative therapy, "Can I Change," and have raised money to endow a new annual APA award recognizing achievement in LGBT mental health, the John Fryer Award.
AGLP puts on a full week of LGBT events during the APA annual meeting, May 20-25, 2006 in Toronto. AGLP will also be involved with the other APA meeting, the Institute of Psychiatric Services, putting on a day of sessions on LGBT psychiatric care in New York, in Oct. 2006. Future APA/AGLP meetings: May 19-24, 2007 San Diego; May 3-8, 2008 Washington, DC; May 16-21, 2009 San Francisco.

I love this story:
Thu, Feb. 23, 2006
Ohio lawmaker to propose ban on GOP adoption
BY CARL CHANCELLOR Knight Ridder Newspapers
AKRON, Ohio - If an Ohio lawmaker's proposal becomes state law, Republicans would be barred from being adoptive parents. State Sen. Robert Hagan sent out e-mails to fellow lawmakers late Wednesday night, stating that he intends to "introduce legislation in the near future that would ban households with one or more Republican voters from adopting children or acting as foster parents." The e-mail ended with a request for co-sponsorship. On Thursday, the Youngstown Democrat said he had not yet found a co-sponsor. Hagan said his "tongue was planted firmly in cheek" when he drafted the proposed legislation. However, Hagan said that the point he is trying to make is nonetheless very serious. Hagan said his legislation was written in response to a bill introduced in the Ohio House this month by state Rep. Ron Hood, R-Ashville, that is aimed at prohibiting gay adoption. "We need to see what we are doing," said Hagan, who called Hood's proposed bill blatantly discriminatory and extremely divisive. Hagan called Hood and the eight other conservative House Republicans who backed the anti-gay adoption bill "homophobic." Hood's bill, which does not have support of House leadership, seeks to ban children from being placed for adoption or foster care in homes where the prospective parent or a roommate is homosexual, bisexual or transgender. To further lampoon Hood's bill, Hagan wrote in his mock proposal that "credible research" shows that adopted children raised in Republican households are more at risk for developing "emotional problems, social stigmas, inflated egos, and alarming lack of tolerance for others they deem different than themselves and an air of overconfidence to mask their insecurities." However, Hagan admitted that he has no scientific evidence to support the above claims. Just as "Hood had no scientific evidence" to back his assertion that having gay parents was detrimental to children, Hagan said. "It flies in the face of reason when we need to reform our education system, address health care and environmental issues that we put energy and wasted time (into) legislation (Hood's) like this," continued Hagan, who has been in the Ohio Senate nine years. Before the Senate, he served 19 years in the Ohio House.

January February, 2006

Dear colleague:

For today's newsletter, I am including the President's column I wrote for the next edition of AGLP. (Tim and I are celebrating our tenth anniversary tonight at 11 pm with champagne and cake, at the night Tim DJs at the Stud, on 9th and Harrison. Feel free to drop by for a toast if you are in the neighborhood. Details are here: http://shadowplaysf.com -- Tim is DJ Donimo.)
Of course, I recommend joining AGLP, at aglp.org if you are not already a member. Thanks to our generous SF-area AGLP members for your generous donations to endow the APA John Fryer Award for LGBT mental health. We have met the $15,000 Gill Foundation matching grant, and the award will commence in 2006. Make your hotel reservations for Toronto at aglp.org -- the hotel is filling up quickly.

AGLP President's Column

January 20, 2006
Today Tim and I mark our tenth anniversary as a couple. Relationships often develop in unexpected ways, but this is especially true for same-sex couples. We know well what many heterosexual marriages of 10 years look like, from the visible examples around us. But ten years ago, I could not have predicted that I would be celebrating this anniversary, or writing this column.
Of course, in many ways, our relationships are not that different from those of our heterosexual friends, colleagues, and neighbors. Our relationship is affected by our community of friends and family, as well as by my identity as a psychiatrist (and as a DJ's spouse), and my partner's identity as a DJ (and as a psychiatrist's spouse). Sometimes in our San Francisco community, sexual orientation seems like one of the less notable distinguishing traits of our relationship.
One way in which same sex couples are very different is in our treatment by the larger society and by the law. In the first year of my relationship with Tim, I chaired a subcommittee of UCSF's LGB committee that worked on securing equal health benefits for domestic partners. This was an intensely political fight, due to the fierce opposition of then Governor Pete Wilson, but the benefits were won by a single-vote margin of the UC Board of Regents. The vote came down to a conservative Republican trustee abstaining, rather than voting "no." The power of the individual testimony of dozens of UC employees, at Regents meeting after Regents meeting, made the difference. The meetings were filled with heartbreaking stories of uninsured same sex partners of UC employees. In the years that followed, the University of California changed policy after policy, until today, UC's LGBT policies are perhaps the most progressive of any U.S. university. Each policy change didn't happen spontaneously, but rather through the hard work of many UC faculty, staff, and students, to convince the Regents that equal treatment is in everyone's interest.
Tim and I celebrated our fifth anniversary, on January 20, 2001, holding picket signs and marching through the streets of San Francisco to protest the installation of a new President, one who appeared not to have won the election. In the ensuing years, our relationship became politicized in ways I could never have imagined. On February 16, 2004, Tim and I got married at San Francisco City Hall, along with thousands of our neighbors, and these marriages became fodder for our President's re-election campaign. There were both victories and losses at the state level across the country in the continuing battle for equal marriage rights.

We are gratified that the efforts of LGBT psychiatrists and our colleagues in the APA have been so successful. The APA endorsed same sex civil marriage, and in Toronto, the APA is awarding AGLP its Distinguished Service Award. Thanks to the generous response by AGLP members, we have met our Gill Foundation matching grant for the John Fryer Award, and beginning this year, the APA will present an annual award and lecture for achievement in LGBT mental health.

In Toronto, we are encouraging any LGBT psychiatrist interesting in getting married to his/her partner to let us know. Non-residents can marry in Canada, and other AGLP members who have married in Canada can offer you advice. We already have one psychiatrist interested in getting married during APA week, and we plan to incorporate a wedding reception into the week of AGLP events. Please contact me if you and your partner are interested in tying the knot this May.

Don't miss AGLP/APA week in Toronto. And as for marriage: I highly recommend it.

November/December, 2005

Dear colleague:

I hope you are enjoying the holiday season. This is the time of year when you get bombarded with requests for donations.
I'm going to mention two. First, the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists has been raising money to endow the John Fryer Award, a new award that the American Psychiatric Association will be giving out annually for an individual's contribution to LGBT mental health. The late John Fryer, MD was "Dr. Anonymous," the first gay psychiatrist to speak (on being a gay psychiatrist) at an APA meeting, in 1972. Dr. Fryer had to speak disguised by a mask and a voice-distorting microphone, but his courage helped open the closet doors for gay and lesbian psychiatrists, and helped push the removal of homosexuality from the DSM the following year.

This award will be given annually, alternating between the APA Annual Meeting and the Institute of Psychiatric Services. The award winner will give a speech, which will be featured prominently at each of the meetings. The President of the APA will give the award, but the awardees will be selected by a committee composed of members of AGLP and the APA Committee on LGB Issues.
We have to raise $50,000 to endow the award. The Gill Foundation has generously provided a $15,000 challenge grant, which requires us to raise $15,000 in matching funds. We are approaching that $15,000, but are still a few thousand short, and the deadline is December 31, 2005. (We expect to receive the other $20,000 through a bequest, which will not be available until early next year.)
Please help support the APA's John Fryer Award for contributions to LGBT mental health. You can donate here:
https://mmm701.vwh1.net/aglpor/pages/fryerappeal.html

Second, this Wednesday evening, Nov. 30, is the annual UCSF AIDS Health Project Gala. This is one of my favorite benefit events. You can graze, with small bites provided by some of San Francisco's best restaurants, and get a bit tipsy tasting wine provided by several fine Napa/Sonoma vintners. This year's honorees, for contributions to local HIV mental health, are Sup. Tom Ammiano, and the auctioneers Bonhams and Butterfields. The event will be held in the stunning new Ricardo Legorreta designed building at the new UCSF Mission Bay campus.
Buy your tickets here: http://www.ucsf-ahp.org/HTML/gala_2005.html

Thanks so much, and the best of holidays!
Dan
Dan Karasic, MD Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCSF/SFGH 1001 Potrero Avenue, Suite 7M San Francisco, CA 94110 (415) 206-3809

October/November, 2005

Sun, Oct 23 6:00 to 8:00 PM - Photo-Collage opening by New Leaf psychiatrist Ed Lim, MD
Luv-A-Java Coffee House, 1300 Dolores Street, San Francisco (415) 401-6444 Ed Lim's work of large-scale photograph collages will be displayed at Luv-A-Java through the month of October. These panoramas of famous tourist attractions are made of 25 to 85 snapshots edited together into "mosaics," or "joiners," and are up to five feet wide.