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RFK Jr’s ‘dangerous’ health layoffs could undo years of HIV prevention research, experts warn

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Mass layoffs across the US Department of Health (HHS) could have “dangerous” effects on the prevention of HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), not-for-profit groups have warned. More than 10,000 HHS positions have reportedly disappeared since Robert F Kennedy Jr, better-known as RFK Jr, became secretary of health. Among them are positions in the Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/Aids Policy, as well as at the world-famous Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Other key areas affected include jobs in STI and HIV response teams, the dismantling of the PrEP Implementation Branch, and cutbacks on HIV awareness campaigns. RFK […]

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Gender euphoria a ‘key component’ of trans and non-binary wellbeing, expert says

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A first-of-its-kind gender euphoria scale study has found, just in time for Trans Day of Visibility (3 March), that an overwhelming majority of trans and non-binary people feel affirmed when allowed to be themselves. The collaborative study, which helped to create the ground-breaking scale, found that, out of a survey of more than 700 trans and non-binary Australians aged between 16 and 79, 96.6 per cent felt gender euphoria in some capacity. Researchers from the Swinburne University of Technology, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI), and the University of Melbourne, used the data to create the gender euphoria scale – an innovative way […]

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Multiple LGBTQ+ choirs perform in protest after Kennedy Centre cancels Gay Men’s Chorus concert

Multiple LGBTQ+ choirs have performed in protest after the Kennedy Centre cancelled a performance of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC and the National Symphony Orchestra. The concert was scheduled for 21 May as part of WorldPride 2025, with the two organisations set to collaborate on a piece titled “A Peacock Among Pigeons” for a Pride concert. In a statement shared on social media last month, the Gay Men’s Chorus said it was “deeply disappointed” by the decision to cancel the event. In response, eight LGBTQ+ choirs sang “Make Them Hear You” from the musical Ragtime in a defiant performance, which is dubbed […]

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Alarming new research reveals multiple terrorist groups are targeting LGBTQ+ communities

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A new study has shown that a number of terrorist groups are targeting LGBTQ+ communities.  The research, published in PS: Political Science & Politics, and led by extremism expert Dr Jared Dmello from the University of Adelaide’s School of Social Sciences, showed that extremist groups with contrasting ideologies overlapped in their hatred of LGBTQ+ people.  “We found a wide variety of extremist groups, which on the surface have nothing in common, are actually engaging in similar attacks on the same marginalised communities, Dmello was quoted as saying by Cosmos magazine. “Both Islamic extremist groups and far-right terrorist groups actively target the queer […]

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ICE uses 227-year old law to ‘disappear’ LGBTQ+ asylum-seeker because of his tattoos

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An LGBTQ+ asylum-seeker has reportedly been deported from the US because of his tattoos. Lindsay Toczylowski, the founder and president of Immigrant Defenders Law Centre (ImmDef), claimed that one of her clients, a Venezuelan tattoo artist, had been deported to El Salvador because of misconceptions regarding their body art, reports The Pride LA. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials reportedly used the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, a measure instigated to deport people threatening the country’s safety. It was last invoked to intern people of Japanese descent during World War II. Immigration officers reportedly said the tattoos were related to Tren de Aragua, […]

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Lesotho LGBTQ+ organization says it has not received $8 million from US as claimed by Trump

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A Lesotho LGBTQ+ rights organisation says that it did not receive eight million dollars in funding from the US, despite Donald Trump’s recent claim.  During his presidential address to Congress on Tuesday (4 March) Trump made a claim about Lesotho’s main LGBTQ+ rights organisation, the People’s Matrix.  “Eight million dollars to promote LGBTQI+ in the African nation of Lesotho”, he said of the organisation, adding that “nobody has ever heard” of the country in Southern Africa.  ‘We do not have such moneys’  In response, People’s Matrix spokesperson Tampose Mothopeng alleged that Trump’s claim was baseless. They told AFP: “We are literally […]

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LGBTQ+ Muslims fearful after killing of ‘word’s first out gay imam’

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The killing of the ‘world’s first out gay imam’ Muhsin Hendricks has sent shockwaves across the world, particularly among LGBTQ+ Muslims. Hendricks was killed in an execution-style hit in broad daylight on Saturday morning (15 February) after the car he was travelling in, near the coastal city of Gqeberha in the country’s Eastern Cape province, was ambushed. He was 57. A hooded figure was captured on CCTV getting out of a pick-up truck that had blocked Hendricks’ vehicle before firing shots through the window. There have been no arrests but deputy justice minister Andries Nel has said the authorities are “hot on […]

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The fight for trans rights is beyond the ‘visibility era’: ‘This moment calls for radical defiance’

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Just over a decade ago, in 2014, TIME magazine declared on its front cover that we were at the “The Transgender Tipping Point“.  The cover itself was simple, a full body shot of actress Laverne Cox – who was then playing Sophia Burset on Netflix game-changer Orange Is the New Black – and a byline for writer Katy Steinmetz, who said in the piece that trans rights would be the next civil rights frontier. “We are in a place now,” Cox told the magazine at the time, “where more and more trans people want to come forward and say, ‘This is who I am.’ […]

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France to roll out ‘essential’ gender equality and consent lessons in schools

France is set to introduce lessons in gender equality and consent into the curriculum for children as young as four years old in both public and private schools. French Education Minister Elisabeth Borne is launching a new plan to transform the sex education syllabus in schools in a bid to tackle sexual violence and violence against women and girls.  The former prime minister told broadcaster France Inter: “Education about love, about relationships and sexuality is absolutely essential.” The new syllabus is set to be rolled out after the summer holidays and will implement three sex education sessions per year for primary, […]

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Winning design for UK LGBTQ+ veterans memorial unveiled

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A memorial for LGBTQ+ veterans is to be built at the National Arboretum in Staffordshire, 25 years after the ban on queer service personnel was lifted in the UK. The UK’s first memorial dedicated to LGBTQ+ veterans, which looks like a crumpled letter made of bronze, is created from words taken from evidence from military service members who were affected by the ban.  It was illegal for people serving in the British armed forces to be out as LGBTQ+ until 2000, with several queer veterans dishonourably discharged, stripped of their medals or convicted of a crime. Lesbian Olympic gold medallist Kelly Holmes, who […]

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