News + Politics
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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...
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The Florida Family Associations Decries Lady Gaga/Office Depot Collaboration
“The one million dollar pledge from Office Depot to the Lady Gaga Born this Way Foundation will influence many teens to embrace homosexuality for their...
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For young gay men of color, experts argue for more holistic approach in HIV fight
During an AIDS 2012 panel discussion this morning looking at a particular health disparity, “Equity for YMSM of Color in the USA” – YMSM being...
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Video Coverage of “Keep the Promise” Rally and March
Sunday afternoon, July 22, ahead of the evening’s opening session of the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington, thousands took to D.C. streets...
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Gay Couple Attacked in Eckington
A local gay couple was attacked just after midnight Sunday, July 22, as first reported by NBC4. The attack occurred in the Eckington neighborhood of...
