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Association Creates First Full-time National Lesbian Health Position

Published in Women's Health Weekly, January 5th, 1998

Underscoring its commitment to advancing the field of lesbian health, the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA), a San Francisco-based national medical association, has hired the first full-time national advocate for lesbian health.

Grace Flannery, a long-time executive in the non-profit sector, joined GLMA on December 1, 1997, as Director of the Lesbian Health Fund (LHF) -- the only dedicated source of funding for lesbian health research in the world, according to GLMA.

Flannery will oversee all aspects of LHF, but one of her primary objectives will be to increase the funding LHF makes available to researchers.

"GLMA's...

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