Depending on your age, birth sex, family history, sexual activity, and other health issues or risk factors, there are standard preventative screening recommendations for you. Cancers – like breast, cervical, prostate, or colorectal cancer – come to mind, but there are all sorts of other things you might need to get screened for, like high blood pressure or osteoporosis.

Check out when, where, and how to get screened and learn about our particular risks and experiences as LGBTQ people.