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Starbucks to Pay for all Transgender Staff’s Surgeries

Starbucks has announced plans to offer comprehensive care for transgender employees, covering several procedures that are usually excluded by insurers. In the new plan announced on Monday, Starbucks said that in addition to covering bottom surgery, they will now cover all other medical steps in a person’s transition. This will cover several other procedures that were previously considered cosmetic – which can often be hard to obtain as insurers typically refuse to cover them. The international coffee chain will now cover procedures including top surgeries in the form of breast reduction or augmentation, hair removal or transplants and facial feminisation […]

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Ivanka Trump ‘Helps’ Migrants With $50,000 Donation to Anti-LGBT Megachurch

An evangelical leader who is a member of President Donald Trump’s Religious Advisory Council praised First Daughter and senior White House advisor Ivanka Trump, the Christian Broadcasting Network reported Monday. Pastor Jack Graham of the Prestonwood Baptist Church received a $50,000 personal donation from Ivanka, who earned $82 million in outside income with her husband Jared Kushner in 2017, while both were working in the White House. Prestonwood has a long history of anti-LGBT activism. In 2014, Graham worked to repeal a non-discrimination ordinance in Plano, Texas. In 2015, Graham lashed at out the Supreme Court for marriage equality. “This […]

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Families Belong Together—Attend a June 30 Event!

Donald Trump and his administration are cruelly separating children from their families. But we won’t allow it to continue. On June 30, we’re rallying in Washington, D.C., and around the country to tell Donald Trump and his administration to stop separating kids from their parents! Trump and his administration have been systematically criminalizing immigration and immigrants, from revoking Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to ramping up intimidating ICE tactics.  Join us on June 30 to send a clear message to Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress: Families Belong Together!  If there’s not an event near you, keep checking back or […]

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U.S. Supreme Court Ducks Dispute Over Florist Who Refused Gay Wedding Request

After siding with a baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sent back to lower courts a similar dispute over a florist who declined to create flower arrangements for a same-sex wedding based on her Christian beliefs. The justices threw out a 2017 ruling by Washington state’s Supreme Court that Barronelle Stutzman, owner of Arlene’s Flowers in the city of Richland, about 200 miles (320 km) southeast of Seattle, had violated the state’s anti-discrimination law and a consumer protection measure. The court ordered the top Washington state court to […]

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Clinicians: Would You Prescribe Doxycycline to Someone for STI Prevention?

If you could take a pill to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs) like gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis—would you? Two studies have investigated whether daily or “on demand” doxycycline effectively prevents the occurrence of common sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Although both studies showed promise, the method is far from being touted as a blanket solution to rising STI rates. What do clinicians think? Pierre-Cédric Crouch, nursing director of the sexual health clinic Magnet at San Francisco AIDS Foundation, said that this method “has some promise,” but that it’s definitely not a perfect solution and that more research is needed on the […]

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Closeted LGBT Youth Are Less Social on Facebook, Study Finds

Signup to receive a daily roundup of the top LGBT+ news stories from around the world Young LGBT people who have not come out are less likely to engage on social media like Facebook, a study has found. Closeted young people have “lower overall network connectivity” than others, according to the research paper published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The study examined the use of Facebook among LGBT youth, including how they interacted with managing the disclosure of their sexual orientation or gender identity. The results showed closeted young people were less connected on social media, in part, over […]

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Royal Family to Have First-ever Same-sex Wedding as Queen’s Cousin Prepares to Marry

Another historic royal wedding is set to take place this summer – the family’s first same-sex nuptials. Lord Ivar Mountbatten, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, first made history when he announced he was gay in 2016 and became the first member of the royal family to do so. Following his announcement, Lord Mountbatten revealed he was in a relationship with James Coyle, who he will marry during the summer. New royal family will be the most diverse ‘since the early 1800s’ The wedding will be made even more special because Lord Mountbatten’s ex-wife will play a special part in the […]

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LGBT+ Asylum Claimants Are Being Left in Limbo by Trump Administration

The hostile immigration restrictions introduced by the Trump administration have “terrified” LGBT+ asylum claimants, says the head of a top US NGO. The revised version of Trump’s travel ban has spelt disaster for people residing in the US who are from one of the six countries that made the final cut in the discriminatory bill. For the likes of Mohamed, time is running out. The gay man from Syria applied for asylum in 2014 and has still not been granted a working visa renewal. “The number of LGBT people who make it through the system alive and request resettlement is […]

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These Gay Men Created a T-shirt Made of Their Blood to Protest Donation Ban

The proceeds from the T-shirt will go to an LGBTQ health centre (Mother/screengrab) Signup to receive a daily roundup of the top LGBT+ news stories from around the world Gay employees at the creative company Mother have created a T-shirt printed using their blood to protest the gay blood donation ban in the US. The company, which has offices in New York and London, launched the Blood is Blood T-shirt to highlight the discrimination LGBT people face when donating blood. The front of the T-shirt reads: “This shirt is printed with the blood of gay men.” On the back, a […]

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PrEP Advocate Damon Jacobs: Vaping Can Be Harm Reduction

What comes to mind when you hear the term “harm reduction”? Many people in public health or in the community may think of needle exchanges or safer sex practices. PrEP can be a form of harm reduction, since it can allow you to enjoy the sex you want to have while at the same time reducing the harms that can come from condomless sex. Damon Jacobs, LMFT Because I’m an advocate for the health of people in the LGBTQ community, I’m also concerned by harm coming from something else in our community: tobacco. Did you know that LGBTQ people smoke […]

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