On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honor those killed as a result of transphobia in the US in 2017. So far this year, at least 26 transgender men and women have died from murders that appear to have been motivated by bias… Read the full article HERE. #lgbt #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #homophobia #equality
Today, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago released a new report on youth homelessness, Missed Opportunities: National Estimates, which found that LGBTQ young adults had a 120 percent higher risk of reporting homelessness compared to youth who identified as heterosexual and cisgender… Read the full article HERE. #lgbt #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #homophobia #equality
A network of LGBT Floridians has rapidly passed 17 local conversion therapy bans in as many months—a feat that no other state besides Ohio has come close to replicating. In June 2016, Miami Beach banned conversion therapy for minors… Read the full article HERE. #lgbt #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #homophobia #equality
The Public Health England report shows a decline in new HIV diagnoses among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men. Since the epidemic was first detected over 30 years ago, there has bee a 21% decline of cases of the virus from 3,570 in 2015 to 2,810 in 2016… Read the full article HERE. #lgbt #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #homophobia #equality
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
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