LGBT Health Awareness week highlights challenges faced by LGBT youth, offers insight on how they thrive, & enhances the awareness among physicians, policy makers, etc. about the existing disparities in order to provide competent care. Download the social media toolkit here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bcI03GQ1-iApi3UgTOvQtQnbNlI6ZYQM
Andrea Jenkins made history in November 2017 by becoming the first openly transgender black woman elected to public office in the U.S., according to LGBTQ advocacy groups and researchers. Jenkins, a Democrat, was one of two openly trans people to win a seat on the Minneapolis City Council last year. Jenkins is also a published poet and an oral historian at the University of Minnesota. Jenkins won about 73 percent of the vote in Minneapolis’s Eighth Ward, where she is known for addressing youth violence and improving the south-central ward’s neighborhoods.