HIV is no longer a death sentence. But decades-old stigma persists. – NBC News

In 2014, Deondre Moore, who was 19 at the time, decided to get an HIV test while he and his friends were at a nightclub in Houston. Moore wanted his friends to...

‘I Found Love At 90 With A 31-Year-Old—After Finally Coming Out’ – Newsweek

For the first half of 2020, I had been isolating alone for some time because of treatment for cancer and the COVID-19 pandemic. I started writing my memoirs and eventually I...

Queen’s Birthday Honours: the full 2021 list – City A.M.

Below the full list of names for this year ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) The Rt. Hon. Frederick Richard...

Queen’s Birthday Honours 2021 — The UK list in full – HeraldScotland

From unsung heroes to celebrities and sporting heroes and those leading the fight against covid, they have all been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.Here is the full UK...

Celebrate Juneteenth 2021 in Killeen and Harker Heights – ktemnews.com

Growing up in Florida, I didn't know the history of Juneteenth and what it meant to African American culture.Until I got to Texas, where I learned about why we celebrate on...

Rep. Demings Shows Support for ADVANCE Study That Could Make it Easier for LGBTQ...

Orlando Rep. Val Demings and other Congressional leaders sent a letter to the FDA today in support of a study that could make it easier for LGBTQ people...

UAlbany Experts Available to Discuss Discrimination, Justice and Other LGBTQ+ Issues for Pride Month...

ALBANY, N.Y. (June 11, 2021) — What began as “Gay Pride Day” more than 50 years ago as a commemoration of the Stonewall uprising – demonstrations in reaction to a police...

Rainbow capitalism: The companies that want your Pride money but have murky records with...

Happy Pride Month! June is intended to be a beautiful celebration of queer life and liberation, of all the labor it took to make the progress we now take for granted....

Creating a Literary Culture: A Short, Selective, and Incomplete History of LGBT Publishing, Part...

THE FIRST PART of this three-part series examined gay and lesbian literary output between 1940 and 1980, a period which can be summarized as almost nonexistent — a handful of books,...

June Events: Science and Cocktails returns! – The Post – The Copenhagen Post –...

Science and Cocktails returnsJune 26, 19:15, DR Koncerthuset, Ørestads Boulevard 13, Cph S; from 80krAfter more than one year of suspense, Science & Cocktails returns with an out-of-this world program of...

Is HIV Criminalization the No. 1 Barrier to Ending the Epidemic? – Medscape

For many people, being told that they are HIV positive is no longer a death sentence. But for Robert Suttle, a Black gay man and social justice educator, it is a...

Hungary LGBT: Content aimed at children to be banned – BBC News

Last year the Fidesz government condemned a Hungarian children's book, Wonderland Is For Everyone, which recasts fairy tale characters in roles representing minorities, notably Roma and gay people. Fidesz labelled it...

In Draghi’s Italy, Far Right Gains Ground with Meloni – Voice of America

ROME - Almost all of Italy's political parties rallied behind Mario Draghi when he became prime minister -- but the public seems to be falling for his biggest critic, the...

Celebrating Pride Month – University of Denver

Dear DU community members,  During the month of June, the University of Denver celebrates Pride Month and the amazing contributions of LGBTQ+ people to our community and society. During this time of celebration,...

Harvard bans former anthropology chair after finding persistent sexual harassment – Science Magazine

<!----> Last year, Gary Urton retired from Harvard University with emeritus status, which has now been revoked. Sam Ogden ...

Why the Marriage-Equality Movement Succeeded – The New Yorker

In his new book, “The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage,” the journalist Sasha Issenberg chronicles one of our country’s most recent civil-rights battles, tracing the evolution of the cause...

Sasha Issenberg on the Fight for Marriage Equality – The New Yorker

In his new book, “The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage,” the journalist Sasha Issenberg chronicles one of our country’s most recent civil-rights battles, tracing the evolution of the cause...

Fellowship awards to support faculty research and creative activity this academic year at Eastern...

YPSILANTI – A youth mentoring model as a collaboration between universities and K-12 public schools. Development of a virtual reality digital human patient room for nursing students and research on error...

Bay Briefing: The 1.5 million data points that tell us about pandemic changes –...

Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Thursday, June 10, and San Francisco is nearing a key pandemic goal. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. ...

Gay Fred Angel | Obituaries | themountaineer.com – The Mountaineer

Gay Fred Angel, 84, passed away on Tuesday, June 8, 2021, surrounded by his family at Mission Hospital.A native of Madison County, he was the son of the late Ben...

LGBTQ students celebrate community, accomplishments at Lavender Graduation – UCLA Newsroom

When Nieves Winslow first came to UCLA, finding community was a priority, so they signed up to live on UCLA Housing’s gender, sexuality and society–themed floor that celebrates queer culture.Now Winslow,...

Physical activity may curb health care worker burnout – EurekAlert

There is no question that the pandemic has been immensely stressful for health care workers, especially for those on the frontline of patient care. Yet, even before the pandemic, the...

Nevada will start teaching LGBTQ+ history in school curriculum – Gay Times Magazine

Nevada will become the sixth state requiring schools to offer an LGBTQ+ inclusive school education from kindergarten through to graduation. Democrat Gov. Steve Sisolak signed A.B 261 at the Henderson Pride Festival...

The IVF Cases That Broke U.S. Birthright Citizenship – The Atlantic

Ethan and Aiden Dvash-Banks are twin brothers—born just four minutes apart on the same September day in the same hospital room in Ontario, Canada. But shortly after their birth in 2016,...

Trailblazing Transgender Doctor Saved Countless Lives – Scientific American

In February 1918 Alan L. Hart was a talented, up-and-coming 27-year-old intern at San Francisco Hospital. Hart, who stood at 5'4" and weighed about 120 pounds, mixed well with his...

The push for LGBTQ equality began long before Stonewall – The Washington Post

In 1951, it was out of this populist milieu that a group of former communists built on their experiences opposing fascism to form Mattachine, an organization explicitly advocating for gay rights....

Retiring National MP Nick Smith apologises for voting against gay marriage in 2013 –...

'There is an issue I got wrong' - MP Nick Smith took time in his valedictory statement to apologise for voting against gay marriage. Video / Parliament TVRetiring veteran National MP Dr...

Diversity at the Forefront at this Year’s Gertrude Street Projection Festival – Gay Nation

2019 Gertrude Street Projection Festival (Photo by Bernie Phelan - Supplied) 3 min readBoundary-pushing artists will present work that considers colour, race, gender sexuality, age, ability, class and nationality, combined...

Pride Month Vote Stirs Up Memories of Growing up Gay in Redding – anewscafe.com...

I am writing to Supervisors Jones and Baugh regarding the Pride Month Proclamation. I am Brandon Rogers, I grew up in Redding and lived there until 2012. I worked for Shasta...

Leaving The Matrix Part 1 – Dualism Is Dead – PRESSENZA – International News...

One Hundred Forty Years Ago About one hundred forty years ago the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche made his infamous announcement “God is Dead”. In the century that followed, Nietzsche’s brash declaration was often...

Leaving The Matrix Part 1 – Dualism Is Dead – PRESSENZA – PRESSENZA –...

One Hundred Forty Years Ago About one hundred forty years ago the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche made his infamous announcement “God is Dead”. In the century that followed, Nietzsche’s brash declaration was often...

50 years ago, a gay couple outsmarted a court into letting them marry. Here...

Michael and Jack McConnell will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on September 3rd and it won't only be a big moment for them, it'll be a landmark for the entire gay...

Touching video shows son come out as gay to Mormon dad – Yahoo News

PORT ST. LUCIE - Coming out as gay is hard, but coming out as gay to your Mormon dad is really hard.Austin Swink was preparing to go on his first mission...

Can viagra help with menstrual cramps? – Popular Science

What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer if you listen to PopSci’s hit podcast. The Weirdest...

Who is Mara Gay? NYT defends board member after ‘dozens of US flags on...

New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay was at the center of a controversy when she went on air and spoke about how she was "disturbed" by the number of...