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Researchers believe they’ve found the cure for HIV/AIDS.

Within a document that is 1,000 pages long, American researches have outlined what they say could be the cure to HIV/AIDS. Yesterday, the American Gene Technologies (AGT) submitted their study for Phase I retail of its autologous cell therapy for HIV, reported BioBuzz…

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Gen Xers: There a new generation embracing homophobia.

Queer people are everywhere. When they’re not presiding over whole countries (see Luxembourg and Serbia’s heads of state), they’re dominating the Billboard Hot 100 for months at a time like our boy Lil Nas X. A whole bunch of them — including…

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Marriage equality overturned in the Cayman Islands.

An appeals court in the Cayman Islands has overturned a ruling that legalized same-sex marriage, while saying the Caribbean nation’s government should establish some equivalent of marriage for same-sex couples. The Cayman Islands Court of Appeal handed down its ruling Thursday, voiding…

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Another judge deals blow to Trump’s anti-LGBT ‘conscience rule’.

A second federal judge has ruled against Trump administration’s “conscience rule” allowing health care workers to get out of procedures with which they have religious objections, such as gender reassignment surgery or abortion. U.S. District Judge Stanley Bastian, an Obama appointee, ruled…

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Pence using threats to award millions in aid to Christian groups.

The government watchdog Pro Publica has revealed that Vice President Mike Pence is re-routing funds from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to Christian groups in the Middle East, potentially igniting religious tensions in the region and violating…