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Public Outcry Temporarily Saves Los Angeles LGBT Center’s STD, HIV Services

The Los Angeles LGBT Center announced today that it has reached a temporary agreement with the Los Angeles Department of Public Health (DPH) to reinstate funding for vital STD and HIV services for the LGBT community.  “The Los Angeles LGBT community saved the day. From phone calls to tweets and emails, their voices were heard and ultimately saved these vital services for our community,” Los Angeles LGBT Center CEO Lorri L. Jean said. “It’s a potent reminder of the strength, tenacity, and resilience of our community.” The agreement, reached overnight, comes one day after the announcement that free STD and […]

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First Openly Gay Black Federal Judge Deborah Battsmwas Dies at 72

The judge who was overseeing a fraud case against Stormy Daniel’s former attorney Michael Avenatti has died at age 72. The Southern District of New York confirmed the death of U.S. District Judge Deborah Batts to NBC News on Monday. Batts was assigned a fraud case against Avenatti, one of three federal cases the high-profile lawyer is facing, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office told NBC News. LGBT Bar of NY @lgbtbarny Judge Deborah Battsmwas the 1st openly-gay black woman on the federal bench. She was a trailblazer. She was a member of the @lgbtbarny for many years. Her decades of service […]

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Most UK LGBT Youth Hide their Identity to Protect Themselves from Bullying, Study Finds

Homophobic and transphobic bullying are commonplace in Britain’s school, nearly 4,000 LGBT+ youth, have said according to a glaringly obvious study. In the hallways and cafeterias of schools up and down Britain, half of queer young people reported facing abuse from fellow pupils, research from the British LGBT Awards published yesterday found. Moreover, just one in four LGBT+ people under the age of 25 said they felt able to come out in school, and eight in 10 pupils were pelted with verbal abuse. Research leads called the findings of the report “startling”, noting that as much as progress is going ahead in […]

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Caught on Camera: Thief Steals Church Display Honoring Murdered Trans People

A reverend in Ohio revealed a thief has stolen part of his church display honouring the trans people who were killed in 2019. St Peter’s United Church of Christ in Cincinnati, Ohio, describes itself as a “100 per cent hate free zone”. According to its website, the church welcomes everyone into its community “no matter your faith background, sexual orientation, gender identity [or] race”. Reverend Derek Terry had created a display outside the church, flying trans Pride flags and putting up signs showing the names and ages of trans people who had been killed in the US in 2019. But Terry told Fox 19 that […]

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Advocates Tracking over 200 Active State Bills Targeting LGBTQ Americans

State lawmakers across the country have introduced several anti-LGBTQ bills since November, advocacy groups say, ranging from proposals that would make it more difficult for same-sex couples to adopt to measures that could put doctors in jail for providing hormone therapy to transgender minors. One such group, Equality Federation, said it is currently tracking about 226 bills — including more than two dozen introduced in January alone and some still active from previous legislative sessions — that have the potential to negatively affect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. “The targeting of kids is really unique this year … It’s really shocking, the depth of […]

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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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