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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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The Secret History of LGB Saints the Catholic Church Doesn’t Want You to Read

Lillies (1996) St Sebastian depicted in the 1996 film Lillies. Some people think you can’t be gay and Christian. What better way to prove them wrong than with a list of LGBTI saints? The Catholic Church doesn’t want you to read this. They’ve deliberately erased many gay saints from official lists. And we have to admit it is difficult to find hard historical evidence about most saints. Many of the stories about them are little more than legends. But if you start looking, there are lots of LGBTI saints and martyrs. Here are just a few of the most famous: […]

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Major Breakthrough: Scientists Succeed in Destroying HIV-infected Cells

Scientists have announced a potential major breakthrough in finding new HIV treatments. French researchers have revealed they have successfully destroyed cells infected with HIV. The scientists at Paris’ Institut Pasteur used metabolic activity inhibitors to eliminate ‘resevoir’ cells. Antiretroviral drugs are unable to completely remove the virus. Even when HIV is brought down to undetectable levels, a small amount of the virus is latent within certain cells. The virus can also multiply if people stop taking their medication. The virus remains in reservoirs, the CD4 lymphocyte immune cells, which are the main targets of HIV. Eliminating these hidden reservoirs of […]

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LGBT Charity Calendar Banned on Facebook for ‘Sexual Activity’

The Naked Rugby Players calendar (Facebook) An LGBT charity calendar has reportedly been banned on Facebook for containing “sexual activity” despite it not containing any. The calendar by The Naked Rugby Players, which aims to raise money for the testicular cancer charity Balls To Cancer and LGBT+ inclusive rugby, was banned from the social media platform for containing explicit content. The calendar reportedly went against Facebook’s community standards on nudity and sexuality activity, which bans content containing nudity (showing genitals), sexual activity, sexually explicit language and female nipples (except in the context of breastfeeding, birth, health and protests). However, the […]

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Trans Boy ‘Bullied in School Bathroom by Assistant Principal’

An assistant principal bullied a trans boy and challenged him to prove his gender by using a urinal, according to a complaint filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The student at Liberty High School in West Virginia was using a stall on November 27 when he was allegedly confronted by the senior staff member, Wave 3 News has reported. “When he came out of the stall, the principal was essentially blocking him in so he could not leave.” — ACLU West Virginia executive director Joseph Cohen ACLU West Virginia executive director Joseph Cohen said: “He misgendered him, at […]

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Tumblr’s Adult Content Ban Means the Death of Unique Blogs that Explore Sexuality

This week, Tumblr announced that it would ban all adult content from its platform and said any user who was hurt by the decision could simply migrate to another site. But creators and readers alike don’t believe there’s another website that fosters the same kind of sex-positive spaces that Tumblr has. It’s as though Tumblr CEO Jeff D’Onofrio has failed to understand his own platform, how unique these communities are to Tumblr, and how unlikely it is for them to survive beyond the shutdown. “Sex wasn’t this separate, shameful thing. Tumblr allowed it to exist right next to every other […]

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Trump Administration Suspends Study into HIV ‘Cure’

It’s been revealed that the Trump administration quietly shut down a study into a ‘cure’ for HIV in September. The study implanted human fetal tissue into mice in its quest to find effective new treatment for HIV. The human fetal tissue came from elective abortions. Although legal, anti-abortion groups oppose the research. According to a report in Science, the The Department of Health and Human Services forbid National Institute of Health (NIH) scientists from applying for any more fetal tissue to help with their studies. This impacted on two NIH laboratories. One of them, the National Institute of Allergy and […]

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Grindr Head of Press Resigns Over CEO’s Opposition to Same-sex Marriage

Grindr’s director of communications Landen Rafe Zumwalt has stepped down. (LandenRafe/Twitter) Grindr’s director of communications has resigned from his role, seemingly in response to the dating app’s president saying he believes that marriage is between a man and a woman. Landen Rafe Zumwalt, who is gay, published a post on Medium on December 7, explaining that he was stepping down from his position at Grindr with “great sadness.” Zumwalt does not name Grindr president Scott Chen in his statement, but his blog post appears to be in response to Chen posting on Facebook that he agrees marriage should be “between […]

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Transgender person shot dead in Detroit, Michigan

A 35-year-old transgender person was fatally shot on the East Side of Detroit. According to the Detroit Free Press, the unidentified person was found around 6 AM on Friday, 7 December. No other details about the victim have been released at this time. The body was found on E. McNichols Road, between Brush and Omira. The street remains closed for the investigation. Police are currently investigating the incident, but do not consider it a hate crime. Authorities are looking into a claim by a man who was allegedly robbed in the area and fired a self-protection shot. He was unsure […]

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HIV/AIDS Council Set to Hold Meeting — but Trump Still Hasn’t Appointed Members

The Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS is set to hold a meeting in March, even though the council still has no members nearly a year after President Trump terminated its remaining advisers without explanation. According to an entry from Department of Health & Human Services set for publication in the Federal Register on Friday, PACHA “will be holding a meeting and will discuss recommendations regarding programs, policies, and research to promote effective prevention, treatment and cure of HIV disease and AIDS” on March 14-15, 2019. The meeting will be open to the public, the notice says, except the sessions will […]

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