Hello everybody. Welcome to Homo sapiens. My name is Christopher Sweeney. I bring you today something a little bit different.

I have with me, well, actually I'll start by saying, if you remember,

I seem to be dishing out quite a lot of prostate health advice here on the podcast lately,

being relatively unqualified for that, I thought

it might be sensible to get ourselves an expert here to talk to us about all things LGBT

health. And who better than Dr. Gareth Patterson, who you, some of you may know from seeing how he spreads

wisdom, love, light on social media. And you have joined me here today, Gareth, to talk about

some of the stuff that the listeners want to talk about. So welcome to Homo sapiens, Dr.

Gareth Patterson. Lovely. Thank you so much, Chris. Lovely to be here. It is so lovely to have you.

I really love your content. Is that something people say anymore?

But you do it in a very lovely sort of light-hearted way, but really important stuff.

And I think one of the things to say up top is that LGBT people, and you're a gay man yourself,

it's worth pointing out, you know, it's going to the doctors can be treacherous because you don't feel understood.

And do you find that with a lot of your patients?

I think probably in general.

I think people can approach an appointment with their GP or doctor with a bit of trepidation.

So I think that's quite a normal human experience to feel that kind of nervousness.

But I think, yeah, even more

so I think gay or queer people can feel an anxiety when approaching a GP. I think historically,

there would have been experiences of prejudice and lack of understanding and awareness amongst

healthcare professionals.

And I think people still feel a bit of a legacy of that.

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