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Pope Francis Criticized for ‘Failure’ to Address Damage to LGBT Youth

Pope Francis has been criticised for his “failure” to address the damage done to LGBT+ youth by the Catholic Church. LGBT+ humanitarian campaign group Equal Future hit out at the pope after the Vatican released a new teaching document for young people, titled Christus vivit, on Tuesday (April 2). The pope released the nine-chapter publication in response to an event held by Catholic bishops, called the “Synod on Young People,” in October. But Equal Future criticised the pope for “airbrushing of the lives and aspirations of millions of young LGBT people from the document,” which it said “compounds the damage being done to […]

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Canadian Man Claims Marshalls Store Fired Him Because of His Sexuality

A gay man from Oshawa, Ontario in Canada has claimed that he was fired from his job in retail chain Marshalls because they “didn’t like” him and were looking for a reason to let him go. Michael Gale told CBC News that the company—which has stores across the United States and Canada—is “supposed to be really friendly to the LGBTQ community and it wasn’t.” He has since filed a complaint to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario about his treatment. Staff at the Marshalls store allegedly made inappropriate jokes and comments about his sexuality In an interview with CBC News, Gale said he was […]

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NGLCC, Other Chambers of Commerce Launch New Business Owner Initiative

The National LGBT Chamber of Commerce is among the chambers of commerce that have launched a new initiative that seeks to provide additional support to business owners around the country. The U.S. Black Chambers Inc., the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation, along with the NGLCC, are behind the Chamber Leadership Development Program. A press release notes the initiative “is aimed at educating and developing leaders of diverse state and local chambers of commerce to support diverse entrepreneurs.” The press release also says the initiative will work with universities […]

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Scientists Develop All-in-one Approach that ‘Kicks and Kills’ HIV

Scientists have developed an all-in-one immunotherapy approach in a bid to ‘cure’ HIV. University of Pittsburgh researchers say they have developed a way to ‘kick’ HIV cells hiding in the immune system. And not only does it kick it out of hiding, the approach also kills it. No clinical trials have taken place yet. However, researchers say this is an exciting step to one day developing a vaccine. New all-in-one approach that ‘kicks and kills’ HIV (Photo: rawpixel | Unsplash) Robbie Mailliard, assistant professor of infectious diseases and microbiology, said it was ‘promising’. ‘A lot of scientists are trying to develop […]

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Told U.S. Security at Risk, Chinese Firm Seeks to Sell Grindr

Chinese gaming company Beijing Kunlun Tech Co Ltd is seeking to sell Grindr LLC, the popular gay dating app it has owned since 2016, after a U.S. government national security panel raised concerns about its ownership, according to people familiar with the matter.  The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has informed Kunlun that its ownership of West Hollywood, California-based Grindr constitutes a national security risk, the two sources said.  CFIUS’ specific concerns and whether any attempt was made to mitigate them could not be learned. The United States has been increasingly scrutinizing app developers over the […]

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Doctors Achieve First ever HIV Positive Organ Donation

For the first time, doctors transplanted an organ from an HIV positive donor to an HIV positive recipient. Surgeons at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, a research university in Baltimore, Maryland, undertook the medical breakthrough. They transplanted a kidney from Nina Martinez, 35, to an anonymous recipient. With the successful operation on Monday (25 March), from which both patients are recovering, the recipient is free of kidney dialysis for the first time in a year. ‘Society perceives me and people like me as people who bring death,’ Martinez, who acquired an HIV positive status due to a blood transfusion as an infant, told The Washington Post before the surgery. […]

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misterb&b Gives LGBTQ Community & Allies Opportunity To Invest – Expands to Hotels

misterb&b (misterbandb.com), the world’s largest short-term rental marketplace dedicated to the Gay community, has launched a Wefunder campaign to give guests, hosts, and the public the opportunity to invest in the company to help launch expansion to hotels. Homosexuality is illegal in a third of the world, and in 8 countries, it is punishable by death. In the U.S., hate crime incidents increased by 17% from 2016 to 2017, as reported by the FBI’s yearly “Hate Crime Statistics” report, with 20.6% due to sexual-orientation — the largest increase since 9/11. Not knowing whether a host will be welcoming makes “traveling […]

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Google Removed from LGBT Equality Index for Choosing to Keep ‘Gay Cure’ App

Human Rights Campaign removed the tech giant from their index after a petition went viral. Over 140,000 people have signed the petition for Google to remove the app from its Play store. Available for Android users, the Living Hope Ministries app claims same-sex attraction is sinful. Both the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and the Trevor Project have made efforts to contact the tech giant to remove the ‘harmful’ app. Nearly every mainstream health group considers ‘gay cure’ therapy dangerous to a person’s mental and physical health. What is the app? The Texas-based group claim LGBTI ‘lifestyles’ are harmful and compare it to an ‘addiction,’ ‘sickness,’ and […]

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Transphobic Cartoon Appears on Washington Post, Drawing Social Media Backlash

A political cartoonist whose cartoons are syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group published his most recent cartooon, and it’s drawing criticism for being transphobic. Mike Lester is a conservative illustrator and his drawings appear on The Washington Post’s website. His most recent political cartoon is about the newly completed Mueller Report. Robert Mueller conducted an investigation looking into possible collusion with Russia during the 2016 presidential election. He recently published the report of his findings. In the cartoon, a group of men sit at a table celebrating in front of a large, three-tiered cake. The cake reads ‘The Mueller Report’ in red frosting and a […]

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United Airlines Adds Non-binary Booking Options

United Airlines has become the first major US airline to introduce non-binary options on its booking forms. The airline announced on Friday (March 22) that in addition to ‘male’ and ‘female’ booking options, customers will now also be able to pick either U (Undisclosed) or X (Unspecified), corresponding with markers available on passports and IDs in some areas. Customers will also be able to use the gender-neutral ‘Mx’ title. United Airlines ‘will train staff on preferred pronouns’ United also announced partnerships with LGBT+ rights groups Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and The Trevor Project to provide training to staff on “preferred pronouns and the […]

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