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Utah Jazz forward Rudy Gay will not play Friday in the team's game against the Denver Nuggets. What It Means: Gay has entered the NBA's health and safety...

At the start of every school year, Cory Bernaert, a kindergarten teacher in the Manatee County district in Florida introduces himself and his partner in a welcome email to families and...

An international coalition of older people with HIV has issued a new manifesto calling for greater focus on the needs of this group. Initiated at the International AIDS Conference this summer...

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Carl Nassib is a pro athlete. He knows the expectations and stereotypes that come with that career choice. Some hold up: he's six-foot-seven, 275 lbs., and drops F-bombs liberally. "It comes...

A veteran in the fight for reproductive freedom, Rebecca Hart Holder had a sense that Roe v. Wade’s overturning was imminent and made a tactical decision to take the fight to...

2 min readMental health was once seen as a positive concept related to the social and emotional well-being of people and communities. Commonly it is referred to and related...

On Thursday the Utah Jazz were reminded that everything has not returned to normal as Rudy Gay and Simone Fontecchio have entered the NBA’s COVID-19 health and safety protocol and have...

Mass shootings can have a huge impact on your mental health, even if you’re not directly involved in one.In 2014, there were 269 mass shooting incidents in the U.S. In 2019,...

Looking back at the nearly 15 years I’ve worked at the Washington Blade, I find it difficult to summarize my time here in a single essay because the state of play...

PRAGUE (AP) — Thousands rallied in the Czech capital Wednesday to honor two Slovak gay men shot dead this month outside a bar in Slovakia, and demanded better protection of...

(New York) – The spate of anti-transgender legislative proposals across the United States in recent years also threatens to undermine the fundamental rights of intersex children, Human Rights Watch, interACT: Advocates...

Wed, Oct 26th 2022 09:55 am Observance runs Oct. 24-31 Submitted by the Erie County Department of Health PrEP Aware Week (Oct. 24-31) is a time to raise awareness about the importance of HIV...

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Decorative fresco from the north wall of the Tomb of the Diver at Paestum, Campania, Italy. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images) Along with the historic rate of youth LGBTQ+ identification—20.8 percent...

The transgender revolution is coming for the entirety of American culture, but specifically for American children. And if you think that is an exaggeration, just considered that the transgender revolution has...

As the covid-19 pandemic worsened a mental health crisis among America’s young people, a small group of states quietly withdrew from the nation’s largest public effort to track concerning behaviors...

When NBC5 Responds first met Adam Motz and Tee Lam in December 2020, the Chicago couple was waging a battle on two fronts, with one goal in mind: To start a...

OCEAN CITY — Parents and students renewed their pleas Thursday before the Ocean City Board of Education to make sure ongoing bullying of queer students stops and that board members and...

The LGBTQ community is reeling from the news of beloved gay icon Leslie Jordan’s death.Jordan — an effeminate Southern gay actor who for decades occupied his own special corner of queer...

Share on PinterestA new, large study found that 98% of those who began gender-affirming hormones as adolescents were continuing treatment five years later. Getty ImagesA study published in The Lancet Child...

U.S. Rep Mike Johnson of Louisiana has introduced a bill that critics are calling a federal “don’t say gay” bill that prohibits federal funding for any “sexually-oriented” event or material for...

Former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, who served under President Barack Obama during the implementation of the repeal of the anti-gay “Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell” policy and who cleared the way for...

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A Conversation With Channa A. Amarasekera, MD By Jo CavalloOctober 25, 2022 Advertisement ...

Years after it was first proven to work, a new tool for preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is on the brink of entering mainstream medicine. That tool is doxyPEP, an antibiotic...

“He's really Trumpy,” Ladestro said. “And he's got some really extreme views. He doesn't want to prosecute any of the January 6th protesters at the insurrection. He's 100% against abortion.”For Ladestro,...

2004: Brian Vahaly returns a shot to Ivo Karlovic of Croatia during the RCA Tennis Championships on ... July 20, 2004 at the Indianapolis Tennis Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo...

U.S. Rep Mike Johnson of Louisiana has introduced a bill that critics are calling a federal “don’t say gay” bill that prohibits federal funding for any “sexually-oriented” event or material for...

Patricia Reeves and her husband have tried to make school safe for their child.They pushed administrators at one school to stop students from bullying Milo, who is nonbinary, and withdrew Milo...

One of Democrat Rochelle Garza’s top campaign promises if elected attorney general is to create a dedicated group of attorneys within the office who would focus on civil rights.“I envision having...

A Conversation With Channa A. Amarasekera, MD By Jo CavalloOctober 25, 2022 Advertisement ...

Share this story Published 5 hours ago In the 40 years since HIV/AIDS emerged, new therapies have made strides to decrease the ripple effects of the illness. But there’s...

Scroll To See More Images As one of Hollywood’s (and Instagram’s) most beloved comedians, it’s understandable why fans have questions over how Leslie Jordan died and what his cause of death...