Thousands of veterans are being denied the health care they are entitled to –...
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Naomi Osaka, mental health awareness, Memorial Day and other top columns – USA TODAY
In today's fast-paced news environment, it can be hard to keep up. For your weekend reading, we've started in-case-you-missed-it compilations of some of the week's top USA TODAY Opinion pieces. As always, thanks for reading,...
A Q&A With HIV/AIDS Pioneer Dr Michael Gottlieb – AJMC.com Managed Markets Network
In June of 1981, Michael Gottlieb, MD, was an assistant professor of medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine, when he and a team from the school, along with investigators from...
A Q&A With HIV/AIDS Pioneer Dr Michael Gottlieb – AJMC.com Managed Markets Network –...
In June of 1981, Michael Gottlieb, MD, was an assistant professor of medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine, when he and a team from the school, along with investigators from...
Illinois data highlights need for diversity, ‘difficult conversations’ in mental health – The State...
Editor’s note: This story is the third of three this week exploring mental health and highlighting some of the local efforts taking place to improve the community’s overall mental wellness.There was a point...
LGBT activists slam DeSantis veto of funds for Pulse survivors before 5-year anniversary: ‘It’s...
Joél Morales, the Center Orlando’s director of operations, said that earlier this year, the center took over a counseling services program offered to Pulse survivors and the families of those killed....
Catholic bishops oppose Chilean president’s move to legalize gay marriage – Crux Now
ROME – Chile’s president surprised friends and foes on Wednesday, when during his last remarks to Congress before his coalition government ends in March 2022, he asked legislators to treat with...
Are LGBT high school students more likely to use illicit substances? – FIU News
It’s not easy being a teenager. Teens have to cope with the often chaotic onset of physical, psychological and emotional changes. For teens in high school, there’s the added pressure to...
VUSD administrator tells Olympian that school board ‘draws the line’ at advocating for LGBT...
Two-time Olympian Brooke Crain was set to speak to Visalia Unified students about suicide prevention and healthy lifestyle choices — at least that's what she thought.But when a Visalia administrator censored what she could...
Where health care stands at the Virginia primaries – State of Reform – State...
Nicole Pasia | Jun 3, 2021 Share this: As Virginia gears up for its primary elections on June 8, several candidates have health care reform lined up in their...
Gay West retires from the Chilton Extension Office – The Clanton Advertiser – Clanton...
By JERRETT POSEY/ Intern
After 30 years of service at the Chilton County Extension Office, Gay West officially retired on June 1.
West has served a total of 38 years in Extension, and...
Fauci recalls the terrifying early days of the AIDS epidemic – National Geographic
The rush hour traffic was tightening up, but Anthony Fauci, making the short commute from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to his home in Northwest Washington, D.C., wasn’t thinking about...
Savannah medical practice helping LGBTQ community – WTOC
“We see a wide range of clients, most of it from the Savannah area but we have people as far away as South Carolina, Florida, and even Alabama who come to...
USF supports the LGBTQ+ community with programs and services – University of South Florida
USF hosts several year-long programs and services to nurture the LGBTQ+ community. Many of the programs are centered around education to help create cultural awareness. The goal is to encourage an...
New Partnership to Support LGBTQ COVID-19 Vaccine Clinics – Washington Blade
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced at a news conference on Monday that a continuing trend of significantly lower numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths in the city has enabled her to...
How do transgender teens cope with stress? – Medical News Today
Share on PinterestA recent study looks at how transgender people may use alcohol to combat stress. crotography/Getty ImagesA 2-year survey of transgender or gender minority (GM) adolescents, who have a different...
‘I Came Out On National Television And Became The First Openly Gay Woman In...
I grew up in a very conservative, small town in south New Jersey where I didn't know many gay people. That made it difficult for me to wrap my brain around...
Courage To Come Back: Mental Health award recipient helps LGBTQ youth find their place...
DELTA (NEWS 1130) – He has a mental illness, he is gay, and he is a person of colour. Today, Alex Sangha speaks up for others like him who don’t always...
Senate Confirms Chiquita Brooks-LaSure — First Black Woman to Lead Centers for Medicare and...
Senate Confirms Chiquita Brooks-LaSure — First Black Woman to Lead Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ServicesA Georgetown and Princeton University graduate, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure had served as managing director at Manatt Health, where...
Gov. DeSantis criticized for LGBTQ vetoes – WJXT News4JAX
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday slashed $900,000 in funding for programs that serve LGBTQ people in Central Florida, including a program that provides mental-health services to survivors and family members of...
How Illinois fares on LGBTQ inclusion – Chicago Tribune
Each state is given a score out of 100 points that is calculated on the basis of 20 economic, legislative and cultural indicators of LGBTQ climate and inclusiveness in five...
‘Just cruel:’ Gov. DeSantis criticized for LGBTQ program vetoes – WKMG News 6 &...
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday slashed $900,000 in funding for programs that serve LGBTQ people in Central Florida, including a program that provides mental-health services to survivors and family members of...
How AIDS Activists Used ‘Die-Ins’ to Demand Attention to the Growing Epidemic – History
As the AIDS crisis took hold in the 1980s, killing thousands of Americans and ravaging gay communities, the deadly epidemic went unaddressed by U.S. public health agencies—and unacknowledged by...
Perspectives on HIV/AIDS, 40 years after the first cases were officially reported – University...
EXPERTS ADVISORYSaturday, June 5, marks the 40th anniversary of the first official reported cases of what became known as AIDS. The University of Michigan has experts who can discuss.
Celeste M. Watkins-Hayes
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8 LGBTQIA+ Skin Care Brands 2021 – Healthline
Adding a temporary rainbow to the border of a skin care brand’s Instagram profile pic for Pride Month doesn’t do much, but supporting brands that are doing the work year-round does....
N.J. still doesn’t collect data on sexual orientation, gender identity. Here’s why that’s a...
LGBTQ+ people appear to be at a heightened risk for COVID in comparison to the general U.S. population, according to a study conducted by Rutgers University in 2020.Specifically, individuals within the...
Listening to Naomi Osaka – The Wall Street Journal
On the matter of Naomi Osaka and the French Open: I suspect a day will come when people will look back upon this moment and be mystified by how agitated it...
Fauci looks back on early days of AIDS 40 years after epidemic began –...
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has spent the past 40 years of his career fighting the AIDS epidemic, but he can still remember...
Ron DeSantis launches ‘war on LGBTQ Floridians’ with vetoes, critics say – Orlando Sentinel
“Let’s be clear about what this is: Governor DeSantis has declared war on Florida’s LGBTQ community,” said Brandon Wolf, a Pulse survivor who now works for Equality Florida, the statewide...
JoJo Siwa opens up about coming out, ‘being called a gay icon’ and portraying...
Seventeen12 Celebrities Who Have Come Out as Bisexual"I want to announce that I’m bisexual, and I’m now proud to be a part of the LGBTQ+ community," the TikTok star revealed in...
Lessons from 40 years of HIV/AIDS | Emory University | Atlanta, GA – Emory...
Forty years ago, on June 5, 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) carried a report of five otherwise healthy gay men in Los...
Health Canada ordered a 2-year wait between blood ban policy changes: documents – CTV...
OTTAWA -- Amid ongoing questions about why the policy that prohibits sexually active gay men as well as some other folks in the LGBTQ2S+ community from donating blood has been slow...
COVID cases dipped last week – Martha’s Vineyard Times
One week after cases spiked on Martha’s Vineyard to 55 positive results of COVID-19, they were back down to 26 total cases for the Island last week, according to an expanded...
Book Review: ‘The Engagement,’ by Sasha Issenberg – The New York Times
Through Issenberg’s illumination of the donors, activists and attorneys on both sides of the saga, another aspect of the battle for marriage equality becomes starkly clear: its whiteness. Obama plays an...
It’s Pride Month. Here’s what you need to know – Gwinnettdailypost.com
Pride gatherings are rooted in the arduous history of minority groups who have struggled for decades to overcome prejudice and be accepted for who they are.The original organizers chose this...