Stefania Sarrubba

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LGBTI-inclusive anti-bullying laws linked to lower rates of teen suicides

A new study shows detailed anti-bullying laws can help decrease the suicide rate among LGBTI teenagers. Suicide prevention organization The Trevor Project stated LGBTI teens are nearly five times more likely than their straight counterparts to have attempted suicide. The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law has found a connection between LGBTI-inclusive state bullying laws and lower rates of teen suicide attempts. The report analyzed 2015 data on the leading causes of death among teens ages 14 to 18 in the US. At the moment, all 50 states have anti-bullying laws. However, just 20 and the District of Columbia have […]

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This Canadian Company Allegedly Provides Software to Censor LGBTI Content

A Canadian tech company has come under fire for allegedly providing filtering software censoring LGBTI content to anti-LGBTI governments. LGBTI advocacy group All Out has teamed up with Mexican organization R3D, which defends human rights in the digital world, to shed a light on the issue. The two have joined forces to urge Canadian company Netsweeper to stop providing LGBTI censorship filters to homophobic governments. Moreover, the LGBTI group wants to ensure that tech companies don’t use such technologies to violate human rights. Activists started an online petition to put an end to this LGBTI-related content censorship. They addressed Perry J. Roach, […]

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There’s a New London Home for LGBTI Asylum Seekers, This is how You Can Help

With Christmas less than a week away, it might be the perfect time to help others in need. Micro Rainbow International Foundation is opening a new safe home for LGBTI asylum seekers in London and is calling for donations. The charity is urging everyone to donate whatever they can on social media. They have set up an Amazon wishlist where whoever wishes to help can buy anything from bedsheets to microwaves. MRI is crucial in helping asylum seekers MRI was born in 2012. It provides shelter to lesbian, bisexual, gay, trans and intersex people who are homeless because they have been […]

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Gilead Accused of ‘Intentionally Withholding’ Safer HIV Drug

Pharmaceutical company Gilead is ‘intentionally withholding’ a safer drug used for HIV treatments, a lawsuit claims. The company holds the patent on Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate (TDF), an antiretroviral drug for people living with HIV. If routinely taken, this can regulate the viral load. However, a lawsuit filed in US federal court on 17 November alleges that the company is withholding a new version of the drug with fewer side-effects to exploit patent laws. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) greenlit the new drug in November 2016. According to the lawsuit, the company plans to sell a safer version of the drug […]

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These Are the Most Anti-LGBTI Posters Sent Out Ahead of Midterm Elections

Midterm elections are taking place today (6 November) in the US and many are thrilled with the several LGBTI candidates running for office. However, not everyone is happy with this ‘rainbow wave’ that could change the political scenario. Some of these crucial candidates’ opponents and their supporters have whipped up prejudice against them with anti-LGBTI flyers. A Republican on his gay opponent ‘and the man he calls his “husband”‘ The mailer targeting Smith Jr. (right) and his husband (center). As the Pittsburgh Current reported in early November, Republican Daryl Metcalfe currently serving Butler County, Pennsylvania, highlighted in a series of flyers […]

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Greater Palm Springs Pride is Back for Early November LGBTI Fun

Revelers at Greater Palm Springs Pride in 2015. | Photo: Greater Palm Springs Pride 30 October 2018    12:46 GMT Californian LGBTI heaven Palm Springs is ready to host one of the latest and much-anticipated Prides of the year. Greater Palm Springs Pride returns for its 32nd year from 1-4 November. After a hot Pride summer in the US, Pridegoers had to wait for more reasonable temperatures in this little gem in the Coachella Valley. Palm Springs, in fact, reaches more than 45°C in July. Definitely not the right weather to celebrate Pride if you want that rainbow makeup to stay in […]

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Activists Clap Back at Ugandan Minister Condemning Plans for an LGBTI Center

Petter Wallenberg is fundraising for Uganda’s first LGBTI space. | Photo: Rainbow Riots/Facebook 10 October 2018 A minister condemned Uganda‘s LGBTI community for planning to build a safe space in the capital Kampala. This would be East Africa’s first center for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Providing the community with such a space would be a milestone for the African nation. Gay sex, in fact, is still illegal in Uganda under colonial laws. Therefore, even organizing a Pride march might be dangerous for those involved. In 2016, police officers raided Uganda Pride and held hostage participants. The minister said: […]

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