Adrian Shanker, executive director of the Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center in Allentown, has edited a new anthology of essays by LGBT activists which aims to inform the health care system and LGBT health care consumers on how to give and receive better care.

Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center in Allentown has joined a coalition of activists in a lawsuit challenging a proposed federal rule that would allow doctors, nurses, emergency workers and other medical providers to deny treatment and services to patients if it conflicts with their religious or moral beliefs.