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New HIV diagnoses reach 18-year low in Australia.

There has been a 30 percent drop in HIV diagnoses among gay and bisexual men in the last five years, with experts attributing the shift to the availability of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). When taken every day, PrEP reduces the risk of…

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Significant pay gap between LGBTs and straight counterparts.

LGBT+ employees are paid an average of £6,703 less per year than their straight counterparts in the UK, a survey suggests. A poll of 4,000 workers by YouGov for LinkedIn and UK Black Pride found a pay gap of 16 percent between straight and…

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Gay hookup app gets big fine for exposing private photos.

After leaving users’ private photos exposed for more than a year, the gay dating and hookup app Jack’d has to pay out, literally. The app’s owner Online Buddies has agreed to cough up $240,000 in a settlement with the New York…

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Pete Buttigieg just scored a major endorsement.

Out presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has been endorsed by the LGBTQ Victory Fund. According to the Advocate, this is the first time the political action committee has endorsed a presidential candidate. President and CEO of the LGBTQ Victory Fund Annise Parker announced…

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WorldPride celebrates 50th anniversary of Stonewall in NYC.

On June 28, 1969, New York police raided the Stonewall Inn in New York City’s Greenwich Village, sparking two days of tension and riots between the police and gay bar patrons. Fifty years later, members of the LGBTQ community and their allies…