The Pentagon initiated Friday the transgender military ban in accordance with Trump administration plans for the policy, returning the U.S. military to restrictions on LGBT service that harken to the days of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Transgender service members — who had been able to serve openly and obtain transition-related health care since the final(…)
Top leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have reversed a policy that prevented minor children of same-sex married couples from joining the church and participating in its sacred rituals since 2015. Many conservative churches oppose same-sex relationships and have done so with increased intensity since the second half of the 20th century. In the case(…)
Some of the world’s biggest banks have stopped their employees from staying at hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei. This follows his decision to change laws which would stone people to death for having homosexual sex. Last month, Gay Star News exclusively reported the country of Brunei would introduce strict Sharia (Islamic) law to the(…)
People on PrEP are at risk of acquiring STIs, but it is not because they’re using condoms less new research shows. Researchers found a 20% increase in the rates of new STIs among people on a PrEP trial in the Australian state of Victoria called PrEPX. PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) is a proven effective HIV preventative medication.(…)
Transgender men and women are more likely to have heart attacks than cisgender people, according to a new US study. The study found that trans men are four times more likely than cisgender men to have had a heart attack. Trans women are two times as likely as cisgender women to have had a heart attack. The(…)
Ahead of Pride Day 2019, ForLikeMinds.com (www.forlikeminds.com) is pleased to announce that it has launched the first online peer-based support community dedicated to mental illness and substance use conditions in the LGBTQ+ community. ForLikeMinds empowers members to connect and communicate one-on-one and in groups to support, inform, and inspire each other’s recovery from mental illness and substance use. Recovery(…)
Pope Francis has been criticised for his “failure” to address the damage done to LGBT+ youth by the Catholic Church. LGBT+ humanitarian campaign group Equal Future hit out at the pope after the Vatican released a new teaching document for young people, titled Christus vivit, on Tuesday (April 2). The pope released the nine-chapter publication in response to(…)
A gay man from Oshawa, Ontario in Canada has claimed that he was fired from his job in retail chain Marshalls because they “didn’t like” him and were looking for a reason to let him go. Michael Gale told CBC News that the company—which has stores across the United States and Canada—is “supposed to be really friendly(…)
The National LGBT Chamber of Commerce is among the chambers of commerce that have launched a new initiative that seeks to provide additional support to business owners around the country. The U.S. Black Chambers Inc., the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation, along with(…)
Scientists have developed an all-in-one immunotherapy approach in a bid to ‘cure’ HIV. University of Pittsburgh researchers say they have developed a way to ‘kick’ HIV cells hiding in the immune system. And not only does it kick it out of hiding, the approach also kills it. No clinical trials have taken place yet. However, researchers(…)