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Chick-fil-A’s Foundation Still Donates to Anti-LGBTI Causes

American chicken chain Chick-fil-A is still directing donations to organizations with anti-LGBTI outlooks, new tax filings released today (20 March) show. The fast-food chain has taken great strides to downplay its record for donating to homophobic groups in the past. But 2017 tax filings show the chain’s charitable arm, the Chick-fil-A Foundation, donated $1.65 million to Fellowship of Christian Athletes, which imposes a ban on ‘homosexual acts’ on its employees. Moreover, $150,000 also went to the Salvation Army, which has a heated history around LGBTI issues. Finally, a small donation also went to the Paul Anderson Youth Home, which serves some fairly anti-gay views. Significantly, […]

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Japan Must Stop Forcing Trans People to be Sterilized

Japan should stop forcing transgender people to be surgically sterilized, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday (20 March). The rights group released an 84-page report detailing the harm caused by Japan’s Gender Identity Disorder Special Cases (GID) Act. According to Japan’s law, two ‘respected medical professional’ must first diagnose a trans person with ‘gender identity disorder’ before they can apply to change gender. They must also be over 20 years old, unmarried, not have any underage children. Importantly, the law forbids them to have functioning genitalia. ‘Japan should uphold the rights of transgender people and stop forcing them to undergo surgery to be legally recognized’ […]

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Controversial PrEP Drug with Less Potential Side Effects Coming Soon

A new drug to prevent HIV could hit markets very soon. The results of the world’s biggest ever HIV prevention studies revealed the drug, Descovy, was as good as Truvada when it came to preventing HIV. Truvada and generic versions of it are used around the world as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). For two years, pharmaceutical giant Gilead has conducted the DISCOVER trial. The trial measured the efficacy of Descovy as a potential new PrEP drug. The study conducted across 50 sites in the United States, enrolled 5,387 cis men who have sex with men (MSM) and trans women at risk […]

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Right-wing Alliance Defending Freedom Launch another Anti-trans Campaign

American right-wing anti-LGBTQ group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is rolling out their strategy to fight back against the Equality Act. But to no one’s surprise, their strategy is pointedly anti-trans women. Congress re-introduced the Equality’s Act yesterday (15 March) for the third time. Seeking to enshrine LGBTI projections to America’s civil rights. If passed, the bill would extend the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 to cover discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. In a Tweet, a screenshot of an ADF statement sent LGBTI Twitter into overdrive. What did the ADF say? In the screenshot, ADF senior vice president of US legal divisions Kristen Waggoner outlined the group’s […]

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Everything You Need to Know About the Home Inspection

When buying a home, one of the most important steps prior to closing is having a home inspection. This inspection is done by a professional and can reveal many things about your potential new home that you may not have known. It’s essential that you have one of these inspections done so you know if there are any potential issues with the property.  While appraisals are generally required for those buyers who are taking out a mortgage, you do not have to have an inspection. However, it’s highly recommended that you do. You do usually have a specific period of […]

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HIV-preventing PrEP Drugs Aren’t Reaching Black Gay Men

The uptake of HIV-preventing PrEP drugs by gay and bisexual men faces a huge racial disparity in the US, experts have warned. The news comes from research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) which was presented at an HIV conference on Friday (March 8). PrEP use faces ‘huge disparity’ between ethnicities The research presented by the CDC’s Dr Teresa Finlayson found that between 2014 and 2017 there was a 500% increase in the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis among gay an bisexual men “who are at substantial risk for HIV infection.” However, the surge in use has not been uniform across ethnicities. […]

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35 Percent of ‘High-risk’ Gay and Bisexual Men Take PrEP in US

35 percent of gay and bisexual men in the US who are considered at “high risk” of contracting HIV took PrEP in 2017, according to new research. PrEP – or pre-exposure prophylaxis – is taken by people who do not have HIV, but who may be at risk of contracting the infection. The medication significantly reduces a person’s chances of getting HIV. The new research was presented in Seattle this week at the 2019 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, an annual HIV/AIDS conference, according to NBC News. The research – which was based on 8,000 interviews across 20 American cities […]

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Gay Man and Trans Woman Suing Burger King Over Employee ‘Hate Crime Attack’

A gay man and trans woman are suing Burger King after they were allegedly attacked by two of their employees. Raymond Ortega and Toni Llerena claim they were eating at a Burger King near gay club Twist, on South Beach, Miami, when an employee approached. The employee, said to be a woman, asked them to leave the restaurant because the section they were eating was closing. The pair protested, saying others weren’t asked to leave. The employee allegedly called them ‘f**king faggots’ and told them to leave again. The security guard – a man – then called them ‘faggots’ and […]

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Trans Elder Colleen Shares Her Powerful Story Of Transitioning At Age 82

The retired police officer from Coffs Harbour in northern New South Wales hid her identity from friends and family for decades, but has finally been able to become her true self at age 82. Her journey is the subject of a new documentary called Becoming Colleen, screening this month at the Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival. “I lived in my own world to because I had to. Most of my life I never had anybody to talk to about ‘the problem’,” Colleen explains. “When I was younger I asked my mum if I might be a girl but she died when I […]

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Allowing Insurers to Dictate Therapies Harms People Living with HIV

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J When Herbert* moved to San Francisco, he left friends, family, and his doctor behind. He lost access to the combination of HIV medications that had kept him healthy and prevented him from transmitting the virus to others. He was relieved when he found a provider who was able to kick-start his HIV treatment using a highly potent, durable combination of drugs to fight back against the virus. That treatment was an emergency intervention that would not otherwise be first-line, and served as a “bridge” to the preferred longer-term therapy that his doctor would prescribe based on lab results and […]

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