orlando sentinelJeff Kunerth | Sentinel Staff Writer
August 28, 2007
Fear of alienating their straight patients, experiencing ostracism from fellow doctors, and being typecast as a "gay doctor" instead of a doctor who treats gay patients, keep gay and gay-friendly physicians from coming out.
"We still live in a society where homophobia and heterosexism exist. Those physicians are dealing with the same stigmas as any GLBT [gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual] person, and they are having to deal with the professional ramifications as well," said Christopher Blackwell, assistant professor in the College of Nursing at UCF.
