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🧠Lecture: "The Hidden Health Tax: What It Costs To Be LGB+ in America"
🎤 Speaker: Prof. Dhruv Khurana
Being lesbian, gay, or bisexual doesn’t change your biology—but it does change your odds. LGB+ Americans are more likely to be sicker, less insured, and to avoid the doctor’s office altogether. Why? Not because of who they are, but because of the system they’re forced to navigate.
Health economist and researcher Prof. Dhruv Khurana unpacks the science of minority stress: how chronic discrimination, stigma, and identity concealment translate into real, measurable disease. He then “follows the money,” revealing how policy choices—from Medicaid expansion to anti-discrimination protections and missing sexual orientation data—decide who gets care, who gets priced out, and what remains invisible.
The result is a hidden health tax, paid in higher rates of depression, delayed diagnoses, and preventable hospitalizations. Part public health, part economics, and deeply personal for millions, this talk reframes LGB+ health not as an identity issue but as a market failure we built, can quantify, and can fix.
Prof. Khurana is a health economist and assistant professor of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, specializing in health equity and LGB+ health disparities.
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Agenda
6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.
6:55 PM – Host introduction
7:00 PM – Lecture begins
7:45 PM – Audience Q&A
8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round
8:30 PM – Wrap up.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Midtown Manhattan, Midtown, New York, United States
USD 41.32
