The American Rescue Plan Act Will Significantly Address LGBTQ Poverty – Center For American...

The American Rescue Plan Act’s (ARPA) $1.88 trillion in investments to combat the COVID-19 pandemic not only represents a comprehensive pandemic response but also one of the most significant measures to...

Politicians Don’t Get to Use ‘Science’ to Oppose the Equality Act – Scientific American

Last month the Senate Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing on the Equality Act, a bill that would extend civil rights protection to LGBTQ people throughout the U.S. It...

Self-inflicted injury: Definition, causes, signs, and how to help – Medical News Today

Self-inflicted injury is the act of intentionally harming one’s own body without meaning for the injury to be fatal. People who engage in self-inflicted injury typically do so in an attempt...

Is It OK to Use Money Raised for a Child’s Cancer Care on a...

The Oxford philosopher Gilbert Ryle had a theory about dispositions. In his view, when we say that a person knows Latin, that a glass pane is brittle or that sugar is...

Preventive Health Care Appointments You Should Have Each Year – Integris

04/19/2021 A trip to the doctor's office shouldn’t happen only out of necessity after years of ignoring your health. Preventive health care...

‘These kids are the future’: Organizers protest Judson Albahm’s death – The Daily Orange

Get the latest Syracuse news delivered right to your inbox.Subscribe to our newsletter here. Police officers from multiple agencies shot and killed Judson Albahm, a 17-year-old, as he was experiencing a mental health crisis....

Embrace the gay – The Ferris State Torch – Ferris State Torch

The librarians at Sarah Doherty’s hometown library knew she was queer before she did. Photo courtesy of Sarah Doherty Currently, Sarah Doherty serves as the Ferris LGBTQ+ Resource Center coordinator, but for...

A new nonprofit health clinic in Anchorage aims to provide more affordable care for...

The first nonprofit health clinic in the state specifically dedicated to serving Alaska’s LGBTQ+ community opened this week in Anchorage, across from the Midtown Mall. Identity...

Biden Picks Openly Gay Former Richmond PD Chief to Run Customs and Immigration –...

Known for toting a “Black Lives Matter” sign and being an openly gay and married police chief, former Richmond chief of police Chris Magnus has been nominated as Biden’s commissioner of...

How to Get Tested for STIs During the COVID-19 Pandemic – Healthline

Share on PinterestIllustration by Maya ChastainWe include products we think are useful for our readers. If you buy through links on this page, we may earn a small commission. Here’s our...

Sharp increase in STIs prompts call for action – Rochester Beacon

A rise in sexually transmitted infections is an urgent call for action for Monroe County, William Valenti M.D. believes.  Valenti, co-founder, chief of innovation and staff physician at Trillium Health, recently...

Poet shares experience with bullying, racial discrimination – Spectrum News

When Zelda Black starts writing, she can be 100% herself. Her passion for poetry blossomed as a teenager.“Poetry allows me to say what sometimes I feel like I can’t say in...

Poet shares experience with bullying, racial discrimination in new book – Spectrum News

When Zelda Black starts writing, she can be 100% herself. Her passion for poetry blossomed as a teenager.“Poetry allows me to say what sometimes I feel like I can’t say in...

Why Is the Risk of Contracting HIV Higher in Gay Men? – Healthline

Approximately 1.2 million people in the United States had HIV as of 2018, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). About 14 percent of them didn’t know they...

Healthcare worker quits front line for OnlyFans after pitiful 1% pay rise – PinkNews

James Cowe, 23, swapped his scrubs for, well, not much as he left his job in healthcare for OnlyFans. (James Cowe) James Cowe, a 23-year-old gay man, is probably shirtless as...

The Full Story of Nancy Reagan and the AIDS Crisis – The Atlantic

After they all sat down, Glaser poured out the story of the past seven years. Both Reagans had tears in their eyes as she described how Ariel, after months of being...

Last Call: ‘Shameless’ Showrunner Says Goodbye to the Gallaghers – The New York Times

This interview includes spoilers for Sunday’s series finale of “Shameless.”Before he created “Shameless,” the long-running family drama that ended Sunday night on Showtime, John Wells was the showrunner of “ER” and...

JoJo Siwa revealed she’s ‘technically’ pansexual — here’s what that means – Today.com

Three months after she came out as a member of the LGBTQ community, JoJo Siwa opened up in a recent interview with People where she discussed not wanting to put a...

COVER STORY: A NEED FOR WELL-BEING | Hard times yield good prospects for Colorado’s...

Colorado's need for mental health care has never been greater, after a year of living under the dark clouds of COVID-19, economic disruption, social unrest, record wildfires and another mass...

Sacramento pushes back against protests at officials’ homes – Los Angeles Times

For government officials from Los Angeles to Seattle and beyond, 2020 was the year that political protests literally came home to roost.Demonstrators repeatedly ditched traditional venues, such as government buildings and...

MLS looking into use of anti-gay slur by Galaxy’s Sebastian Lletget – Yardbarker

Major League Soccer will investigate the use of an anti-gay slur used by L.A. Galaxy and United States men's national team player Sebastian Lletget, the league announced Saturday: ...

In GOP strongholds, a big push on ‘culture war’ legislation – Minneapolis Star Tribune

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An ardent abortion foe who once opposed allowing gay couples to be foster parents, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson is the unlikeliest figure to complain about bills on...

Top medical school opens class on LGBTQ’s healthcare – Korea Biomedical Review

Early this year, Professor Yoon Hyun-bae of the Department of Human Systems Medicine at Seoul National University College of Medicine received emails from two students while handling class enrollments.   The...

Studio Can’t Slip Gay Asst.’s Bias Suit Against Atty’s Cos. – Law360

Law360 (April 9, 2021, 9:21 PM EDT) -- A California judge Friday overruled a bid by an attorney's dance studio to escape a lawsuit brought by her gay former legal assistant...

Fresno City Council declares April 8 Transgender Day of Visibility – Hanford Sentinel

 FRESNO — The local transgender community received a historic acknowledgment from Fresno City Council on Thursday with a Transgender Day of Visibility proclamation to occur in Fresno every year on April...

Siuslaw News | Improving mental health in Lane County – Siuslaw News

April 10, 2021 — Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the talking points has been concerns about mental health. With so many people working from home and students enrolling in comprehensive...

Proposed health ed standards baffling | Opinion | kearneyhub.com – Kearney Hub

{{featured_button_text}} I am glad to see that health standards proposed for the Nebraska Department of Education include the medically accurate and science-based health information as well as the dangers of...

The changing climate of friendship – Baylor College of Medicine News

Editor’s note: This is the third post in a three-part series on friendship. See the first post and second post. Close, loving male friendships (“blood brothers”) were common among hunter-gatherers and early...

Man loses 240 pounds, gets fit as CycleBar instructor – TODAY

After breaking up with his boyfriend of six years, Frank Wells found himself in his small Kentucky hometown unhappy, out of shape and relying a little too much on alcohol and...

JustUs Health and the Alzheimer’s Association to hold virtual listening session – Minot Daily...

<!-- SHOW ARTICLE --> Minnesota and North Dakota: JustUs Health and the Alzheimer’s Association’s Minnesota-North Dakota will hold a virtual community-focused listening session 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday to...

COVID testing blitz undermined screening, fight against STDs – The Philadelphia Tribune

WASHINGTON — After an unprecedented push to test and track COVID-19, public health workers are grappling with a worrisome side effect: a collapse in screening for sexually transmitted diseases that...

A worldwide epidemic decades before the pandemic: 40 years of AIDS artifacts and stories...

Huston Ochoa MSW ’20 weeps silently as his former professor and another man unfurl the 12-foot-square, stitched-together fabric. He sees there at the bottom, for the first time in nearly three...

USI to Lobby for Reopening of Gay Men’s Health Service – The University Times

The Union of Students in Ireland’s (USI) congress today mandated the union’s executive team to lobby for the reopening of the Gay Men’s Health Service (GMHS) and other sexual health services,...

Fight against STDs lost amid coronavirus testing blitz – Modern Healthcare

After an unprecedented push to test and track COVID-19, public health workers are grappling with a worrisome side effect: a collapse in screening for sexually transmitted diseases that have been on...

Empowering Today’s Youth through Comprehensive Sexual Education – AIDS.gov blog

All youth deserve access to comprehensive sexual health education. National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NYHAAD) is an opportunity to work together to make this a reality. By educating youth about the...