Jake Bain (right) and his boyfriend (Photo courtesy Jake Bain) Hundreds of pro-LGBT protesters turned up to drown out the Westboro Baptist Church, when they decided to target a gay high school footballer. Jake Bain, a popular footballer at John Burroughs School in St. Louis, Missouri, came out publicly as gay last October at an all-school assembly.(…)
A shooting at a transgender club has left one person injured. The Las Vegas Lounge, one of very few specifically trans clubs in the US, was shot at multiple times in the early hours of February 23. The attack left one clubgoer with a gunshot wound to the leg. Police have said that the shooter(…)
Who will speak for you if you can’t speak for yourself? Live in accord with your beliefs and values. Fulfill the goals that have meaning for you. Enjoy your favorite comforts: Isn’t that how you should get to live right up to your last breath—even if a medical crisis means that you are unable to(…)
A group of more than 200 HIV scientists and researchers have come out against the drastic cuts President Trump has proposed for major global AIDS programs.In an open letter made public Wednesday on the final day of the annual Conference on Retroviruses & Opportunistic Infections in Boston, the co-signers say they’re “gravely concerned” about reductions(…)
The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled religious freedom doesn’t allow anti-trans workplace discrimination. A three-judge panel on a federal appeals court in Cincinnati ruled Wednesday the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act doesn’t allow employers to engage in anti-transgender employment discrimination.Writing the 49-page unanimous opinion, U.S. Circuit Judge Karen Nelson Moore, a Clinton(…)
More transgender people in the US are opting for bottom surgery, a report from one of the country’s leading medical schools has revealed. According to statistics compiled by the John Hopkins University School of Medicine, from 2006 to 2011 83.9 percent of patients asked for the surgery, in comparison to 72 percent in 2000-2006, reported(…)
The cruise ship industry is facing pressure to relocate ships registered in Bermuda, after the territory abolished same-sex marriage. Bermuda this year passed a law that replaces a ban on gay couples getting married, less than a year after they were allowed to marry for the first time. The new law has caused chaos in the cruise(…)
In the U.S., the CDC estimates that more than one million people (1,232,000) are at sufficient risk for HIV to meet PrEP prescribing guidelines. This stands in stark contrast to the most recent estimate of approximately 120,000 people currently taking PrEP (based on pharmacy data) by the first quarter of 2017. How are public health(…)
A synagogue has held the first known gender-neutral “B’nei Mitzvah” in the UK for a non-binary teenager. The Jewish coming of age ritual is typically gendered, with males attending a Bar Mitzvah and females attending a Bat Mitzvah. When Esther Thorpe, 14, came out as non-binary last year, their mother, Miriam, worried about how the(…)
New year, new cuts to HIV/AIDS programs. President Trump’s proposed $4.4 trillion budget for fiscal year 2019 is most prominently characterized by soaring deficits, but also calls for varying degrees of cuts to HIV/AIDS programs reminiscent of his earlier request. The proposed cuts for HIV/AIDS overall are significantly less than the cuts that were called(…)