Mark Johnson

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Social Media a Blessing and Curse for LGBTI Community

Twitter getting you down? Fed up with Facebook? Irate with Insta? You’re not the only one who thinks social media can be a real pain. One leading expert says social media has changed what it means to be a young person struggling with sexual identity. Best selling author, philosopher and historian, Yuval Noah Harari, has been talking about this very modern issue the first National Conference for Israel’s LGBTI Community, on Tuesday in Tel Aviv. The conference comes ahead of the Middle East’s largest gay pride parade in the city this Friday. Harari noted that social media can be an […]

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Bermuda to Hold First LGBTI Pride March

The island of Bermuda is to hold its first march to celebrate LGBTI Pride this summer. LGBTI people and same-sex marriage campaigners said the Bermuda Pride event would help to reinforce that gay people are part of island society. A spokesman for OutBermuda, the main sponsor of the march, said: ‘OutBermuda is proud to support Bermuda Pride 2019. ‘There is an inherent value in a public celebration of our LGBTI community in Bermuda as a reminder that we exist and that we are members of the Bermuda community. Beacon of hope ‘It is also a beacon of hope to LGBTI […]

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Apple Pulls Anti-gay App from its Store Following Petition

Apple has removed a religious app from its online store which portrayed being gay as an ‘addiction’, ‘sickness’ and ‘sin’. Religious group, Living Hope Ministries created and owns the LHM Men’s Network app . It was pulled after a gay-rights organization petitioned against it. Truth Wins Out, which says it fights ‘anti-gay religious extremism,’ launched the petition last Thursday, US news site NBC reported. The Living Hope Ministries is a nonprofit that says it serves ‘those who are seeking sexual and relational wholeness through a more intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.’ Living Hope Ministries’ executive director Ricky Chelette. Photo YouTube Executive director Ricky […]

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Rimming is Causing Outbreak of Rare STD Among Gay Men

The LGBT Foundation said there has been a recent rise in cases of shigella among men who have sex with men. Shigellosis, or shigella, is an intestinal infection caused when bacteria found in poo gets into your mouth. Last month, health officials in San Diego issued an advisory over the sexual transmitted infection. It said that gay and bisexual men, homeless individuals, and people with compromised immune systems could be at an increased risk for the intestinal disease. In 2017, San Diego recorded the highest number of cases in 20 years, including a disproportional increase in the gay and bisexual […]