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New York City is on track to end HIV epidemic by next year.

For the first time since New York began annual HIV reporting, the number of new diagnoses dropped below 2,000 last year. That’s according to a new report from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which reports that 1,917 people were…

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Red Cross wants the ban on gay blood lowered…finally.

The American Red Cross is calling for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ease it’s policy on blood donation for gay men. Finally! Up until December 2015, the FDA banned sexually active gay men and transgender women from donating blood altogether for…

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Trump admin erasing LGBT people from government websites.

Researchers at the Web Integrity Project combed thousands of U.S. government web pages to trace how LGBTQ-related content has changed in two years under the Trump administration. It’s not good: Antidiscrimination information has disappeared, along with LGBTQ data and resource…