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Gilead hit with more lawsuits over side effects of AIDS drug.

Another two lawsuits were filed last week in California against the U.S. pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, Inc. by several dozen patients who claim the company withheld from the market for more than a decade a drug for treating HIV that…

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Gay official wins discrimination lawsuit against ex-governor.

A court has found that Iowa’s Republican ex-governor Terry Branstad unlawfully discriminated against a gay official. A Polk County jury on Monday (July 15) ruled that Branstad, a strong opponent of LGBT+ rights who served as Governor of Iowa from 2011 to 2017, discriminated…

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Buttigieg leads the 2020 Democratic money race.

Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden led the 2020 Democratic primary field in second-quarter fundraising, while the leading candidates entered July with a healthy store of cash, according to new campaign filings. Buttigieg hauled in $24.9 million from April through June, the best…

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A gay teen is heading to prison for killing one of his tormentors.

A gay teen who stabbed a classmate to death and critically wounded another after they allegedly bullied him for years was found guilty of manslaughter. In 2017, New York City high school student Abel Cedeno, who was then 17, stabbed Matthew McCree, 15, and…

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Outrage as doctor says “homosexuality can lead to pedophilia”.

In Italy, a medical professional took to Facebook to share her views on homosexuality with a series of extremely homophobic sentiments. These included: “It is like a psychiatric disease”, “I suspected my cat was gay, this shows that it is a disease”…