How Indian STEM Can Be a Healthier, Safer Space for Queer-Trans People – The...
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The Indian STEM academic community is finally talking about mental health issues that affect people in STEM. Recent efforts from IndiaBioscience, The Life of Science and other science media platforms...
The James Webb Space Telescope Needs to Be Renamed – Scientific American
Because of its ability to see more deeply into spacetime than any instrument before it, the Hubble Space Telescope has completely transformed the way we see the universe—and ourselves. The...
James Webb Hated Gay People. Why Are We Naming a Telescope After Him? –...
Scientists are not happy.Hold UpLater this year, NASA plans to launch the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the Hubble Space Telescope’s long-awaited successor that’s expected to revolutionize space research.But scientists are...
The challenge of being gay and an MI6 spy – BBC News
Earlier this month the chief of MI6 issued a public apology for the historic treatment of LGBT employees. Until 1991, there was a ban on openly gay staff serving inside the...
Federal Scientists Plead for Pandemic Controls as Infection Declines Stall – The New York...
While coronavirus deaths tend to fluctuate more than cases and hospital admissions, Dr. Walensky said the most recent seven-day average was slightly higher than the average earlier in the week. The...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene hangs sign mocking congressional neighbor’s transgender pride flag in Twitter...
WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., placed a sign outside her office Wednesday mocking Democratic Rep. Marie Newman, whose office sits across the hall, after Newman hung a transgender pride...
Gay men who ‘sound gay’ encounter more stigma and discrimination from heterosexual peers –...
Gay men are more likely than lesbian women to face stigma and avoidant prejudice from their heterosexual peers due to the sound of their voice, a new study in the...
TikTok star condemned after racist, anti-gay texts leaked – Metro Weekly
Isabella Avila (@onlyjayus) in her TikTok apology video — Photo: TikTok
TikTok star Isabella Avila has been condemned after screenshots of old texts leaked showing her using anti-gay and racial slurs...
The disease-resistant patients exposing Covid-19’s weak spots – BBC News
There are some clues already. Researchers have identified an association between type O and rhesus negative blood groups, and a lower risk of severe disease. But while scientists have hypothesised that...
Covid Shows Military Leaders Need Diverse Reading – Foreign Policy
February 18, 2021, 6:43 PM Since the pandemic transformed U.S. life, there’s been no shortage of references to literature to understand the impact. But most of these, such as...
Researchers find diverse supportive partnerships among older gay men with and without HIV –...
WASHINGTON --- Recent data reveals that gay men living with HIV report having supportive relationships with family, friends, or in informal relationships rather than with primary romantic partners, while gay...
Mental health disorders and alcohol misuse more common in LGB people – EurekAlert
Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB*) people are significantly more likely to have mental health conditions and report alcohol and drug misuse than heterosexual people - according to a new study...
TikTok star under fire for using racial and anti-gay slurs: ‘It is so hateful’...
Isabella Avila, aka OnlyJayus, is being called out after screenshots of her old texts leaked online. In these messages, Avila harassed another creator on Instagram using both racial and anti-gay slurs,...
Science Shows Homophobia The Domain Of Stupid People – Star Observer
A University of Queensland study that utilised data from the 2012 Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey to measure cognitive intelligence, which was then linked it to the...
Nietzsche and COVID-19: We’re all struggling in our own way – Johns Hopkins News-Letter
University officials announced that Commencement will most likely be online. Although there is a possibility that the modality will change, it seems unlikely given the current severity of COVID-19. The virus...
The Man Who Thought AIDS Was All In The Mind – Discover Magazine
The year was 1984. A new disease had emerged in 1981 and was soon dubbed AIDS, the acquired immune deficiency syndrome. In the United States, AIDS risk groups included gay men,...
Why Do Some Gay Men Have to Wait to Donate Blood? Stigma, Not Science,...
Just as his energy was returning, Southern California was inundated with new, often fatal cases.Garrett-Pate wished he could go to a blood bank to donate the enriched plasma coursing through his...
Do India’s Medical Textbooks Have Homophobic Language? – The Wire Science
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When Dr Sameera Mahamud Jahagirdar went through her forensic medicine and toxicology textbook during her graduation in medicine more than two decades ago, she was shocked. She learnt that homosexuality...
Despite Blood Supplies Critically Low, Some Gay Men Still Cannot Donate Plasma – NPR
Men who've had COVID-19 and have sex with other men must wait three months before donating potentially life-saving plasma. Many argue the federal policy is driven by stigma rather than...
QAnon conspiracy theory claims COVID vaccines will turn you gay or trans – Yahoo...
In the latest conspiracy theory cranked out from the depths of QAnon, the view that COVID-19 vaccines will turn you gay or trans.And yes, it is time for us to all...
FAS Dean Gay ‘Hopeful’ About Full In-Person Return in Fall 2021 | News –...
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Claudine Gay said in a Monday interview that she remains cautiously optimistic that Harvard will return to normal, in-person operations in fall 2021.While Gay acknowledged...
Racism and anti-gay discrimination heighten risk for arrest and incarceration – EurekAlert
New research by Morgan Philbin, PhD, at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and colleagues looks at why Black young men who have sex with men (YMSM) are disproportionately...
Stupid people are more likely to be homophobic according to science – LGBTQ Nation
People with lower cognitive ability are more likely to be homophobic than others, a new study found.
The study by the University of Queensland used data from the 2012 Household, Income,...
Homophobes are more likely to have lower intelligence, says study – PinkNews
A protester holds a rainbow flag in support of transgender lives during the demonstration in Times Square, New York City. (John Lamparski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) There is a scientific link...
Dr. Fauci talks about his visits to gay bars & bathhouses (for scientific reasons)...
Dr. Anthony Fauci has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984, and now is the Chief Medical Adviser to the President....
Dr. Fauci talks death threats, gay bathhouses, and Ronald Reagan with Fresh Air’s Terry...
This is not the first time Tony Fauci has gotten death threats.
During the height of the...
Single-shot COVID vaccine, huge LGBTQ survey and coronavirus death risk – Nature.com
NEWS ROUND-UP 03 February 2021 The latest science news, in brief. You have full access to this article via your...
Lesbian, gay, bisexual medical students are more likely to experience burnout, study finds –...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Studies have shown that nearly half of all medical students in the U.S. report symptoms of burnout, a long-term reaction to stress characterized by emotional exhaustion,...
8 Great Queer Science Fiction Books – Book Riot
Tor Books.Ancillary Justice meets Red, White & Royal Blue in Winter’s Orbit, Everina Maxwell’s gut-wrenching and romantic debut. A famously disappointing royal and the Emperor's least favorite grandchild, Prince Kiem is...
Bill Murray in Groundhog Day and the concept of eternal return from Friedrich Nietzsche...
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Pete Buttigieg becomes first openly gay cabinet secretary confirmed by U.S. Senate – Reuters
WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Pete Buttigieg was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Tuesday on an 86-13 vote to head the U.S. Transportation Department, the first openly gay U.S. Cabinet...
Policy & Ethics Why Anthropology Matters – Scientific American
In 2012, both Kiplinger and Forbes ranked anthropology as the least valuable undergraduate major, unleashing a small wave of indignation as many outside the field rushed to defend the study of culture...
Joseph Sonnabend, Early Force in Fight Against AIDS, Dies at 88 – The New...
Joseph Adolph Sonnabend was born on Jan. 6, 1933, in Johannesburg and grew up in Bulawayo, in what was then Rhodesia.His mother, Fira, who grew up in Russia and studied in...
Americans like sports, but heterosexual men especially do – EurekAlert
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Nearly nine out of 10 Americans say they enjoy sports at least a little, but heterosexual men more commonly identify as passionate sports fans, a new study...
Daily briefing: How psychedelics are shaking up psychiatry – Nature.com
NATURE BRIEFING 29 January 2021 The challenges of studying psychiatric psychedelics, how to support assistance dogs in the lab, and the question on online courses that...