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
Five US Senators are putting the needs of elder LGBT Americans front and center. Tammy Baldwin (WI), the first openly gay US Senator, along with Senators Michael Bennet (CO), Jeff Merkley (OR), Edward Markey (MA) and Al Franken (MN), all Democrats, introduced the LGBT Elder Americans Act today. This bill adds on to the Older Americans Act of 1965. It includes LGBT seniors within the scope of that original bill. Read the full article HERE. #lgbt #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #homophobia #equality
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