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Coronavirus ‘Panic’ Could Leave HIV-positive People without Lifesaving Medication, WHO Warns

As scientists report tentative success in treating coronavirus patients with HIV drugs, health officials fear that misinformation about the virus could spark a run on medications. Last month clinical trials in Wuhan, China, began treating coronavirus patients using a combination of two anti-HIV drugs, lopinavir and ritonavir, which are sold under the brand name Kaletra by AbbVie. The treatment showed promising results, and on Sunday doctors in Thailand confirmed that one patient who was given a mixture of flu drugs and the lopinavir-ritonavir combination had “vastly improved”. But the global panic over the virus has been accompanied by a wave of misinformation […]

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Trump Renews Pledge in State of the Union to Beat HIV/AIDS

n a speech touting economic growth and promising “the best has yet to come,” President Trump in the State of the Union address Tuesday renewed his pledge to beat HIV by 2030. Trump made a call to beat HIV/AIDS to cheers from lawmakers in the joint session of Congress during a portion of speech dedicated to health initiatives under his administration. “We have launched ambitious new initiatives to substantially improve care for Americans with kidney disease, Alzheimer’s and those struggling with mental health,” Trump said. “And because Congress was so good as to fund my request, new cures for childhood cancer, […]

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Every Single UK Venue Has now Dropped Hate Preacher Franklin Graham

Every single UK venue booked by anti-LGBT preacher Franklin Graham has now ditched his events, after an outcry from activists. The Trump-supporting preacher, who is known for praising Vladimir Putin’s anti-gay laws and blaming gay people for a “moral 9/11”, is set to visit the UK at the start of Pride Month in June as part of an evangelist tour. However, every single venue booked for the eight-date tour has now cancelled, after being made aware of his extreme anti-LGBT views. Last UK venue drops Franklin Graham The Utilita Arena in Newcastle was the final venue to announce it had axed the preacher, following […]

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California Governor Posthumously Pardons Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin For 1953 Gay Sex Conviction

NBC News reports: California’s governor announced Wednesday that he is posthumously pardoning a gay civil rights leader while creating a new pardon process for others convicted under outdated laws punishing homosexual activity. Bayard Rustin was a confidant of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a key organizer of the March on Washington in 1963. He also helped plan other nonviolent protests and boycotts to end racial discrimination. Gov. Gavin Newsom pardoned Rustin for his arrest in 1953 when he was found having sex with two men in a parked car in Pasadena. He was in town as part of a lecture […]

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Gay Lawyer Claims He was Fired after Leaking Anti-trans Trump Administration Emails

A gay lawyer has said he was fired from the US Department of Education (DoE) because he acted as a whistleblower and leaked anti-trans Trump administration emails. Dwayne Bensing was a lawyer for the Office of Civil Rights within the DoE and had worked for the federal government for more than five years. In the summer of 2019, the SPLC-designated anti-LGBT+ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a complaint with the DoE. The group alleged that a Connecticut policy which allowed trans student athletes to compete on teams that align with their gender was unfair, and that it discriminated against cisgender women. […]

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New York State Park to be Renamed after Trans Pioneer Marsha P Johnson

A New York state park will be renamed to honour the trans activist Marsha P Johnson, New York governor Andrew Cuomo has said. Cuomo announced that East River State Park in Brooklyn would be renamed at the Human Rights Campaign greater New York gala on Saturday February 1. Johnson, a black trans woman who worked as a sex worker, is most well-known for her involvement in the 1969 Stonewall uprising, often seen as the beginning of the modern gay rights movement. She was also a trans rights pioneer, and in 1970 she founded “Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries” otherwise known as “STAR”, with […]

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Marin’s LGBTQ Spahr Center News & Events

LGBTQ+ and HIV Advocacy Day Builds Key Partnerships By Dana Van Gorder, Executive DirectorThe Spahr Center is firmly committed to public policy advocacy. We aim to strengthen the current government response to the needs of LGBTQ+ people and people living with and affected by HIV in Marin. We are increasing our presence with County Boards and Commissions, and describing our needs in several processes that will result in long-term health improvement plans. Policy makers have been great about listening, and LGBTQ+ people are increasingly recognized in key documents and conversations that will drive resource allocation.On January 23, 2020 forty-two constituents participated in […]

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Bill Requires Colleges to Update Trans Graduates’ Names on Diplomas

California appears poised to make it easier for transgender and nonbinary graduates of public colleges and universities to change the name on their diploma. Assemblyman David Chiu, a Democrat from San Francisco, introduced legislation last week that would require public colleges to update the names of former students to reflect their gender identity. He said the bill is intended to combat the “barriers” that trans and nonbinary people face “at school and in the workplace.” “LGBT rights are all of our civil rights,” he told NBC News. “It’s important for all policy makers, whether or not we are from the […]

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Ten Men Behind Bars to await ‘Judgement’ for a Secret Gay Wedding in Mauritania

Ten men have been jailed in Mauritania after a video emerged of a gay couple appearing to take part in a traditional wedding ceremony. Homosexuality is illegal in the North African country of Mauritania and punishable by death under Sharia law, although there are no known cases of executions in the past decade. The arrest of the ten men marks a rare enforcement of the Islamic law, and if convicted they could face the death penalty by stoning. They were detained by police after a video of the ceremony surfaced on social media. It soon began circulating in local news and […]

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Book Review: “One Walk in Winter” By Georgia Beers

Olivia Santini is the main reason why the Evergreen Resort and Spa didn’t fold under its previous manager. Understandably, that’s left her surprised and frustrated that she didn’t get the promotion from assistant manager that she’d applied for. But even a new boss isn’t going to keep her down on the first snowfall of the season, and Olivia is ready to revel in her excitement while she walks her dog, Walter, before heading in to work. Olivia gets to enjoy more than just the magic of fresh snow, though, when she bumps into the beautiful, charming Hayley Boyd, and they […]

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