Ryan Murphy calls ‘Pose’ one of his proudest accomplishments – Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — The big flashy red carpet has made its return to New York City — albeit in a massive socially distant manner — with the premiere of the...
Tom Elias: UC Health should end ties to Dignity – Davis Enterprise
On some levels, it’s sensible for the University of California’s health system, including famed hospitals like UCLA, UC San Francisco and UC San Diego, to link with the Dignity Health group...
Philly successfully administers 900 Pfizer doses that nearly expired; Levine visits vaccination sites –...
PHILADELPHIA -- Former Pennsylvania health secretary Dr. Rachel Levine returned to the state Thursday in her new role as Assistant Health Secretary in the Biden administration.Dr. Levine visited the FEMA-run clinic...
Consider PrEP, hormonal therapy to address health disparities in LGBTQ patients – Healio
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Source/Disclosures Source: McNamara M. LGBTQ Health: A...
States Expand Veterans Benefits to Former Service Members Kicked Out For Sexual Orientation –...
Gay and lesbian military members have been able to serve openly since 2011, when the controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy was repealed. But for some who were expelled for being...
Alabama removing anti-gay language from state’s sex education law – Chattanooga Times Free Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama will remove anti-gay language from the state's sex education law that for decades said students should be taught that homosexuality is both socially unacceptable and illegal....
NAMI Yakima Offers FREE Series To Address Youth Mental Health – newstalkkit.com
Troubled teens...when is the problem behavior just part of the bumpy road of growing up and when is it something more? Mental health conditions are common among teens and young...
GOP challenger to Sen. Murkowski endorsed “ex-gay” conversion therapy – Metro Weekly
Alaska Republican Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka
Kelly Tshibaka, Republican challenger to U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), once supported “ex-gay” conversion therapy and believes that homosexuality is caused by sexual abuse.
CNN’s KFile investigated...
Lithuanian artist uses homophobic messages to raise money for LGBT causes – Reuters
A Lithuanian artist has raised over $6,000 for LGBT groups by selling a digital collage of homophobic messages that were sent to a member of parliament who champions gay rights causes.The...
Clark County author pens novel about AIDS epidemic – The Columbian
When a mysterious epidemic started ravaging the globe, many vulnerable people didn’t want to get tested for the virus. They didn’t want their families and friends to know the...
Alabama removes anti-gay language from sex education curriculum – Metro Weekly
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey – Photo: Facebook.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) has signed a bill into law reforming Alabama’s sex education standards and removing anti-LGBTQ language from the curriculum that previously...
Improving on a good start: Scotland examines its first four years of PrEP –...
Scotland was the first country in the UK and one of the first in the world to provide PrEP via sexual health clinics as a standard provision of its national health...
Alabama removing anti-gay language from state’s sex ed law – Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama will remove anti-gay language from the state’s sex education law that for decades said students should be taught that homosexuality is both socially unacceptable and illegal.Alabama...
Up Next High tech sales engineer Steve Collins dies at 66 – Washington Blade
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced on April 26 that the city’s COVID-related public health restrictions are being eased one step further by the lifting of a ban on live entertainment at...
Letters to the editor – Bay Area Reporter, America’s highest circulation LGBT newspaper
A SOGI data nightmareRegarding your article that the San Francisco Health Department lags other city agencies in collecting LGBTQ health data euphemistically called SOGI (since we need a separate acronym): good...
Joe Biden’s first 100 days: Religious freedom, L.G.B.T. rights and Covid-19 mandates – America...
President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is a cradle Catholic whose positions on immigration, the death penalty, economic justice and environmental stewardship are aligned with policy recommendations of the U.S. bishops and...
A Kind Way to Offer Virtual HIV and LGBTQ Health Services Across Texas –...
Residents anywhere in Texas—including those living in the Lone Star State’s rural outer reaches—now have better access to virtual health services related to HIV/AIDS and the needs of the LGBTQ community....
An LGBT refugee’s journey: Escape is only the beginning — starting over is harder...
Like many stories, it started with a kiss. Except for one 15-year-old girl, it wasn’t the start of a typical teenage first romance story, but the end of her life as...
Give Caitlyn Jenner a chance – KAKE
On her reality show, "I Am Cait," which aired just before Trump came to power, Jenner spent time with, and befriended, leading voices in the trans community, including professor and author...
Police Investigating Possible Anti-Gay Attack In Midtown – Yahoo News
ReutersIran deal parties seek nuclear talks momentum, U.S. briefs Gulf statesVIENNA (Reuters) -World powers and Iran sought on Tuesday to speed up efforts to bring Washington and Tehran back into compliance...
Family Acceptance of LGBTQ Kids is Caitlin Ryan’s Project – KALW
What should you do when your child comes out to you, or you learn some other way that your child may be lesbian, gay, bi, transgender, non-binary or otherwise “queer”? Meet...
Beloved DC bartender Howard Bivins dies at 77 – Washington Blade
C. Howard Bivins Jr.
C. Howard Bivins Jr., a bartender who worked for six D.C. gay bars over a period of 35 years and became known as a congenial conversationist with many...
Terry McAuliffe releases LGBTQ rights platform – Washington Blade
Terry McAuliffe (Washington Blade file photo by Lee Whitman)
The LGBTQ rights platform that Terry McAuliffe released on Wednesday includes a call to repeal the so-called “conscience clause” that allows religious-based adoption...
Up Next Terry McAuliffe releases LGBTQ rights platform – Washington Blade
Three transgender people allege they suffered abuse at a Miami jail last year after police arrested them during Black Lives Matter protests.
The Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund in a letter...
Is there a vaccine for HIV? – Medical News Today
At present there is no vaccine for HIV. However, one may be possible in the future. Scientists continue to research and investigate the possibility. Scientists have performed a phase 1 clinical...
Can trans women get periods? Symptoms, tracking a cycle, and more – Medical News...
Transgender women may undergo gender-affirming treatment, such as hormone therapy. As a side effect of hormone therapy, they may experience symptoms similar to those of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) or premenstrual dysphoric...
Anti-LGBT discrimination ‘damages Eastern Europe’s economic growth’ – EURACTIV
Discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people costs Eastern European countries almost 2% a year in economic growth, a coalition of dozens of global companies promoting LGBT+ inclusion said on...
Murkowski challenger wrote in support of ‘ex-gay’ organization and posts on evils of ‘addictive’...
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Kelly Tshibaka, a Republican Senate candidate seeking to challenge Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski in 2022, once wrote in support of an “ex-gay” Christian organization that promoted...
American Medical Association urges governors to veto transgender medical bans – NBC News
The American Medical Association is urging governors across the country to oppose legislation prohibiting transition-related care for minors, calling such proposals “a dangerous governmental intrusion into the practice of medicine.”In an...
STD cases at ‘all-time high,’ CDC says – Fox 56
(NEXSTAR) – Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are at an all-time high, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on April 13. There were more than 2.5...
Local author novelizes time working during AIDS epidemic – The Reflector
Reflecting on nearly a decade of experience working as a mental health specialist at Cascade AIDS Project in the 1990s, local author Alan E. Rose released his new book, “As...
Murkowski challenger wrote in support of ‘ex-gay’ organization and posts on evils of ‘addictive’...
"Youth draw a quadrant on a sheet, place two intersecting pencils on top of each other, and then ask, 'Charlie, Charlie, are you there?' They then proceed to ask subsequent questions...
Solomon Alidor-Hamilton becomes Justin Fashanu Mental Health Ambassador – Canaries.co.uk
Norwich City Under-18s player Solomon Alidor-Hamilton has become a Justin Fashanu Mental Health Ambassador in partnership with the Justin Fashanu Foundation. The U18s player joins Under-23s goalkeeper Jon McCracken...
Public Health Watch: Latest STI Numbers for US a “Call to Action” – Contagionlive.com
We may be in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic now, but we’ve arguably been dealing with another epidemic for some time.New data released from the US Centers for Disease Control...
Biden to Send Coronavirus Vaccine Abroad – The New York Times
Senior Biden administration officials, asked by a reporter on Monday whether they had a “moral obligation” to ease the patent restrictions, said they had no new information to share. But Jen...