News + Politics
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Caution and Optimism
Having worked for many years to address the AIDS epidemic, especially among gay and bisexual men, I find it enormously inspiring to see thousands of...
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Pro Homo
I've been a professional homosexual since 1993. I don't mean that I was an escort, although that probably would have paid better than my job...
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Keeping Up with AIDS 2012
Though the official start for the XIX International AIDS Conference – marking the conference's return to the U.S. after a 22-year absence due to the...
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Boy Scout Fallout
Pressure is mounting on the Boy Scouts of America in the wake of the organization's decision last week to uphold a ban on out gay...
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A Progressive Pushes Back
Karen Gautney has always been a fighter. And bullies – whether neighborhood troublemakers or legislators in Richmond – don't scare her. A lesbian resident of...
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World LGBT Briefs: Women on the Verge
Liberian Legislature Takes Up Anti-Gay Bills While the Liberian House of Representatives considers a bill to make sex between people of the same gender a...
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National LGBT Briefs: Heartland Horror, Massachusetts Mensch And Marriage Money
Apparent Lincoln Hate Crime Stirs Community Community members are rallying around a Lincoln, Neb., woman following a Sunday, July 22, home invasion during which, she...
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Gay Weddings Generate $259 million for New York City
A year after New York legalized gay nuptials, the money is rolling in. According to a statement released by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg,...
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Petitions Challenging DOMA Piling Up
Last week the Supreme Court received its fourth petition in less than a month asking the high court to review the constitutionality of the Defense...
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From Prevalence to Homophobia – MSM and HIV
This past weekend, the Global Forum on Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSMGF) noted that following the 2010 International AIDS Conference in Vienna, an...
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How PrEP Plays Out in Studies, Focus Groups
Groups that are among the most at risk of acquiring HIV generally hold favorable attitudes toward pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and at-home HIV testing, according to...
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Transgender Challenges and HIV
Speaking at a workshop this morning, five AIDS 2012 panelists examined problems transgender people face in various countries, particularly in the U.S. Focusing on the...
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Speakers Spar Over Antiretroviral Treatment as Prevention
Call it the great debate of AIDS 2012. During a Monday, July 23, workshop event, speakers and attendees illustrated both the support and suspicion of...
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BREAKING: Mass. Attorney General Urges Supreme Court to Uphold DOMA Rulings
The Massachusetts Attorney General’s office filed a brief on Tuesday urging the Supreme Court to uphold rulings by lower courts that have found the Defense...
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Sally Ride survived by female “partner of 27 years”
“In addition to Tam O’Shaughnessy, her partner of 27 years, Sally is survived by her mother, Joyce; her sister, Bear; her niece, Caitlin, and...
