Retired AIDS researcher John Peterson dies – Bay Area Reporter, America’s highest circulation LGBT...
Professor Emeritus John Lamont Peterson, Ph.D., died unexpectedly of natural causes May 23 in Atlanta. He was 72.Mr. Peterson, a gay man, had served on the faculty of Georgia State University's...
CDC’s New Director of the Division of STD Prevention – AIDS.gov blog
Cross-posted from National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB PreventionDr. Leandro MenaDear Colleague,I am delighted to announce that Dr. Leandro Mena has been officially appointed Director of the Division of...
Spotlight Series: National Leadership Council Member and STS alumna, Michelle Hackman – Science News...
NLC member, Michelle Hackman. Photo courtesy of Michelle Hackman Name: Michelle Hackman (STS 2011)Job Title: Reporter, The Wall Street JournalAbout Felipe: Michelle is a reporter in The Wall Street Journal’s Washington, D.C. bureau,...
LGBTQ+ Excellence: Meet 21 New Point Foundation Scholars Point Flagship – Advocate.com
The Point Foundation — the national nonprofit that mentors and awards scholarships to deserving LGBTQ+ youth — recently announced their crop of scholarship recipients for the 2021-2022 academic year. This year,...
Hungary bill barring LGBTQ content for minors tests EU acceptance – The Christian Science...
London The European Union could impose funding restrictions on Hungary over legislation that bans the dissemination in schools of content deemed to promote homosexuality and gender change, the bloc’s equality chief...
Is De-Criminalizing HIV The Key To Ending Epidemic? – WebMD
June 16, 2021 -- For many people, being told that they are HIV positive is no longer a death sentence. But for Robert Suttle, a Black gay male and...
Blood Feuds and All the Feels: TorCon 2021 Highlights – Den of Geek
Rewatch Here! Space is Gay! With books like Everina Maxwell’s Winter’s Orbit, Charlie Jane Anders’ Victories Greater Than Death, and Ryka Aoki’s Light From Uncommon Stars, it comes as no surprise...
Current, Former Chippewa Falls Students Allege Pervasive Discrimination In Complaint – Wisconsin Public Radio...
When Casaiya Keyser was an eighth grader at Chippewa Falls Middle School, she and her classmates were asked to participate in weekly groups meant to teach strategies for coping with stress....
‘Conversion therapy made me want to die – but now I’m happy and proud...
Ex-pastor Joel Barrett was just a child when he started to realise he was different.“I have memories from as young as four and five years old of thinking about...
Opinion | Opposing Efforts at Voting Reform – The New York Times
To the Editor:Re “Joe Manchin Has a Point About Voting Reform” (Opinion guest essay, June 12):Christopher Caldwell’s attack on the For the People Act and other attempts to allow as many...
More gay, bisexual, and queer men eligible to donate blood in landmark LGBTQ+ victory...
More gay, bisexual and queer men will be able to donate blood in England and Wales, in a major equality win for the LGBTQ+ community.
Between 2017 and now, men who have...
The National Building Museum’s Summer Block Party returns with an outdoor outing – The...
While the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. may not be transforming its soaring Great Hall into a beach, a hammock-equipped open lawn, or a head-scratching plywood labyrinth this year, it...
New Bedford’s #BuyBlackNB Works to Empower Local Black Entrepreneurs – wbsm.com
Among many historically significant events, 2020 will be marked as the year of a long-overdue social awakening. Across the country, activists mobilized and community organizations were formed that became part of...
Letters from our readers – Harvard Magazine
Discourse and the HumanitiesDoris Sommer’s article on the crucial place of the humanities in holding a democracy together had me nodding enthusiastically right up to the last paragraph (“Democracy Requests the...
St. Lenox Breaks Down An Exploration Of Spirituality From A Queer Perspective On Track-By-Track...
St. Lenox — the performance name of Andrew Choi — is ready to launch into the next phase of his career as one of the most unique and...
Congress’s anti-Asian hate crime bill won’t actually prevent anti-Asian hate crimes – Vox.com
The largest federal response to a surge in attacks against Asian Americans since the start of the pandemic has been Congress’s Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act. The law, passed last month, designates...
Constance Alexander: Pride invites all Kentuckians to celebrate dignity, inclusion and diversity – User-generated...
As one of the Seven Deadly Sins, pride can be indulgent, overbearing, and inordinately self-impressed. When it refers to the month of June, however, Pride stands strong, chin up, because it...
The Christian Science Monitor Daily for June 15, 2021 – Christian Science Monitor
Story Hinckley/The Christian Science Monitor New York mayoral candidate Maya Wiley campaigns alongside Rep. Jamaal...
Outdoors: Shorebirds complete their northern migration – Worcester Telegram
Our spectacular spring shorebird migration is over. Tens of thousands of the 34 or so sandpiper-type species, mostly wintering in the tropics, passed through Massachusetts, stopping briefly to fuel up on...
Blanchard crowned Miss Iberville at tea – Post South
Anna “Annie” Blanchard, the 19-year old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. G. Michael Blanchard of St. Gabriel, was crowned “Miss Iberville Parish” on June 12 at a tea hosted by Jennifer...
Speaking Truth to Both the Right and the Left – The New York Times
Just America “is concerned with language and identity more than material conditions.” This separates it from Marxism and also Martin Luther King Jr., whose demands for equal rights largely fell “within...
15 incredible LGBTQ+ shows not available on Netflix (and where to find them) –...
Love, Victor (2020 – present)
Cast: Michael Cimino, Rachel Hilson, Anthony Turpel, Bebe Wood, Mason Gooding, George Sear, Isabella Ferreira, Mateo Fernandez, James Martinez, Ana Ortiz
Where can I watch it? Disney+
Set in the same...
Health Minister to remove blood donation restrictions from gay men – The Jerusalem Post
Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz plans on removing all blood donation restrictions that prevent gay men from giving blood, Ynet reported on Monday.Horowitz plans on removing a form question which asks “have you engaged in sexual...
Colleen Mondor Reviews Yesterday Is History by Kosoko Jackson – Locus Online
Yesterday Is History, Kosoko Jackson (Sourcebooks 978-1-4926-9434-2, $17.99, hc, 320pp) February 2021.
Seventeen-year-old Andre Cobb has survived cancer and is six months into receiving a life-saving donor liver as Kosoko Jackson’s achingly...
Gay man gives blood 20 years after running away from donor centre – Metro.co.uk
Richard Angell, 37, became one of the first gay men to give blood today under the new rules (Picture: Terrence Higgins Trust)It was an ’emotional’ day for Richard Angell as...
Keep the political commitments and HIV/Aids could soon be history – The New Times
Numbers don’t always succeed in telling a compelling human story. But statistics at the UN High-Level Meeting on HIV/Aids held in New York last week helped put things in perspective. The numbers helped...
AMA Delegates Debate Making Sex on Birth Certificate Private – MedPage Today
Several physicians expressed support for a new draft policy report from the American Medical Association (AMA) Board of Trustees recommending that the sex designation be removed from the publicly available portion...
Letters to editor: Pride Month declaration and science – Record Searchlight
Pride Month declaration is a step forward for Shasta County At a recent Board of Supervisors' meeting, the board voted 3-2 to proclaim June as Pride Month in our community. I applaud these...
Library Of Congress: Public Invited To Create National Book Festival Experience Over 10 Days...
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS News:
The 2021 Library of Congress National Book Festival will invite audiences to create their own festival experiences from programs in a range of formats...
Pulse Legacy scholarships bring dreams of a new generation to life – En Español...
Five years on, the dreams and career aspirations of the 49 victims that died on June 12, 2016, are helping a new generation as part of the Pulse Legacy Scholarships,...
Immigration judges decide who gets into the U.S. They say they’re overworked and under...
With a historic increase in the number of migrants trying to cross the U.S. border, immigration judges on the front lines told NBC News the system is reaching a breaking point."In...
ICAM TV schedule June 13 – June 19, 2021 – The Local Ne.ws
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ICAM Public ChannelComcast Ch. 9 and Verizon Ch. 33 Sunday, June 13, 20217:30 a.m. Let’s Visit Pixie Talent Show 18 a.m. Healthy Hiking: Finding Easy Walks Wherever...
Letters to the Editor — June 13, 2021 – New York Post
Fix mask hysteriaKarol Markowicz succinctly captures the irrationality that has large numbers of people who are vaccinated against COVID still behave as though they are in mortal danger of contracting the...
‘Watters’ World’ on media, war on cops – Fox News
This is a rush transcript from "Watters' World," June 12, 2021. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.JESSE WATTERS, FOX NEWS HOST: Welcome to WATTERS' WORLD....
Speak your piece: We’re here, queer and not going anywhere – Record Searchlight
I grew up in Redding and lived there until 2012. I worked for Shasta County and later the City of Redding for 12 years. I attended Enterprise High School and Shasta...