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Gay teenagers Aren’t Being Tested enough for HIV, Study Finds

A study of gay, bisexual and questioning teenage boys in the United States has revealed that the majority have never had a HIV test. Researchers surveyed nearly 700 boys aged between 13 and 18 and found that less than one in four had ever had a HIV test, Healthday reports. They also asked the boys about their sexual activity and history and found that just one third of teenage boys who have had sex without a condom had taken a HIV test. Teenage boys who took part in the study thought they couldn’t legally consent to HIV testing because of their age. […]

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“Queers Against Pete” Group Disrupts Buttigieg Event

Newsweek reports: Democratic presidential candidate and former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg was met with protesters representing the group Queers Against Pete outside of a private fundraising event at the National LGBTQ Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Friday. Inside the building, two activists attempted to disrupt the fundraiser after Buttigieg was asked about his husband, Chasten, by a member of the audience. “I respect your activism,” Buttigieg said, “but this is a gathering of supporters of our campaign and I just got a question about my husband and I’m really excited to answer it.” Some of the […]

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Australian Newspaper Shockingly Compares the ‘Epidemic’ of Trans People to the Coronavirus

National newspaper The Australianhas sparked fury with an article that draws comparisons between the coronavirus and the “contagion” of transgender people. The newspaper is well known for its its “appalling” coverage of transgender issues, which includes articles such as “They’re castrating children”, “Transgender project ‘out of balance’” and “Corrupting kids’ thinking”. The latest article evoked strong comparisons with disease with the headline: “Health chiefs can’t ignore ‘global epidemic’ of transgender teens.” Published on Monday, it begins: “With the coronavirus dominating the news, Queensland’s health authorities have been urged to confront an under-reported global contagion involving troubled teenage girls declaring they are ‘born in the […]

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Swiss Voters Approve Ban on Anti-gay Discrimination

Swiss voters on Sunday approved a referendum to ban anti-gay discrimination in a landslide, 63 percent to 37 percent, reaffirming an antidiscrimination law approved by the Swiss Federal Assembly in 2018. The reaffirmed law makes it illegal to publicly denigrate, discriminate or stir up hatred based on a person’s sexual orientation. The 2018 bill was an expansion of a law passed in 1995 that banned denigration, discrimination and hate speech on the basis of race and religion with potential fines and prison sentences for violations. The new law does not ban gender identity discrimination. Only three of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, […]

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Man Found Dead after Arranging a Grindr Hook-up

The body of a 56-year-old Australian man was found hours after he allegedly left home for a Grindr hook-up. The unidentified Canberra man was discovered dead on February 2 by a man walking his dog in Boulee, New South Wales. His body had been dumped in bushland a few metres away from the purple Honda Jazz he had been driving. He had no visible injuries, and police are waiting for autopsy results to determine his cause of death. Officers believe the man had been on his way to a Grindr hook-up, as he was known to use the app and […]

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12 New Jersey Schools Roll out LGBTQ Curriculum Pilot Program

When Reggie Bledsoe was a student in the public schools of Newark, New Jersey, he didn’t feel represented by the people he learned about in the classroom. As a black man, he could look to civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. or Rosa Parks. But as a gay man, he knew he didn’t fit the traditional mold of a black historical figure. He said he wishes he had learned about even one black LGBTQ figure, like Bayard Rustin, King’s longtime adviser and fellow civil rights pioneer, when he was young and in need of inspiration. “Personally and academically, […]

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Coachella owner Philip Anschutz donated $1million to anti-LGBT causes in 2018

Billionaire Philip Anschutz, whose portfolio includes Coachella and London’s O2 Arena, gave more than $1million to anti-LGBT+ causes in 2018, despite previously denying the donations. As of October 2019, the 80-year-old Christian conservative was ranked by Forbes as the 41st richest person in the USA, with a net worth of $11.5billion. Anschutz, the head of Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), was previously accused of making donations to anti-LGBT+ hate groups like Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and the Family Research Council (FRC) via The Anschutz Foundation. The revelations originally came from a 2013 tax return released by Freedom for All Americans, a political action […]

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Suicide Rates Fall among Gay Youth but still Outpace Straight Peers

Youth suicide rates are dropping in the U.S., but the proportion of teens who have suicidal thoughts or make an attempt remains consistently higher among sexual minorities than among heterosexual young people, two new studies in Pediatrics suggest. One study looked at suicide rates among teens between 2009 and 2017 and found young people who didn’t identify as heterosexual were more than three times as likely as those who did to attempt suicide. A second study looked at this same connection from 1995 to 2017 and found suicidal thoughts, plans and attempts were all more common among sexual-minority youth. Related […]

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Ohio Lawmakers Get Bill To Ban Ex-Gay Torture

Cleveland.com reports: A new bill in the Ohio House would ban conversion therapy — programs intended to end same-sex attraction and make a gay person straight. The conversion therapy bill is sponsored by Rep. Mary Lightbody, a Columbus-area Democrat. “Human beings are complex, and each individual is unique,” Lightbody said in a statement. “As children grow, we all learn about the world and develop an identity that expresses who we are at heart.” Nineteen states and Washington, D.C. ban conversion therapy. North Carolina and Puerto Rico have partial bans. In Ohio, seven cities — Athens, Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton, Kent, Lakewood and […]

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Cop Told To “Tone Down Gayness” Gets $10M

ABC News reports: A gay Missouri police officer who won a “historic” $20 million judgment in a sexual orientation discrimination lawsuit alleging he was told to “tone down your gayness” by a police commission board member has reached a settlement with St. Louis County for half the amount a jury awarded him. The settlement in the discrimination case filed by Lt. Keith Wildhaber was announced just hours after St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said he will retire. “I think it’s really important for those of us in St. Louis County to recognize this is a tough time for the […]

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