When Chen Shuoli was sent to a mainland clinic last year to undergo “therapy” to convert him from gay to straight, he was forced to swallow unknown medicine, according to an account he gave Human Rights Watch. “The nurses always… Read the full article HERE. #lgbt #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #homophobia #equality
First, Allen Rose had to face reality: His doctor had just diagnosed him with prostate cancer at age 45. “I was stunned,” recalls Rose, now a 60-year-old paralegal living in Rockville, Maryland. “It was really the first experience of my life where I had to take in my own mortality…” Read the full article HERE. #lgbt #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #homophobia #equality
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has officially acknowledged that people living with HIV whose treatment has brought their viral load to an undetectable level cannot transmit HIV to their sexual partners.With this statemement, the CDC validates hundreds of other experts and HIV organizations that have signed on to a consensus statement recognizing undetectable HIV-positive people (nearly half of those living with HIV in the U.S.) are not able to pass the disease to others. Read the full article HERE. #lgbt #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #homophobia #equality
Five US Senators are putting the needs of elder LGBT Americans front and center. Tammy Baldwin (WI), the first openly gay US Senator, along with Senators Michael Bennet (CO), Jeff Merkley (OR), Edward Markey (MA) and Al Franken (MN), all Democrats, introduced the LGBT Elder Americans Act today. This bill adds on to the Older Americans Act of 1965. It includes LGBT seniors within the scope of that original bill. Read the full article HERE. #lgbt #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #homophobia #equality
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals have specific health needs that become increasingly important as they age, but these concerns are often not addressed by the healthcare system. Read the full article HERE. #lgbt #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #homophobia #equality
In a world where marriage between individuals of the same sex is increasingly recognised in law, opponents desperately cling to the belief that children raised by gay couples fare worse when deprived of a parent of either gender. The bulk of research just doesn’t back this up. And there is a lot of research out there. Yet the debate persists, so this latest study digs a little deeper into the problem in an effort to clear up persisting arguments. Read the full article HERE. #lgbt #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #homophobia #equality
The Annual Report of Trends in Behaviour 2017 released today by the Centre for Social Research in Health (CSRH) at UNSW Sydney finds the proportion of non-HIV-positive gay men who reported pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use in the six months prior to the annual Gay Community Periodic Surveys increased from 2 percent in 2013 to 5 percent in 2016. Read the full article HERE. #lgbt #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #homophobia #equality
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