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How RFK Jr. and his lawyer’s claims threaten public health
Vaccinations provide significant protection for the public against infectious diseases and substantially reduce health care costs…
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Lavender marriages: Why young people seek platonic love
No one is having a good time dating these days. The backlash against the apps, bubbling up for years, has settled into a deep and lasting malaise. Every day brings troubling reports…
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7 legal docs LGBT folks should update before Trump 2.0
If you are LGBTQ+ or have a loved one who is, these weeks before Donald Trump takes office can feel like a scary countdown to what many fear will be a rollback of rights…
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Here’s why the GOP is poised to dismantle marriage equality
It’s a perfect storm of a conservative court, the Project 2025 ethos running the next administration, and anti-LGBTQ+ congressional leaders…
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A deep dive into how the military’s LGBT witch hunts worked
On weekends, Staff Sgt. Todd VanCantfort, an armed forces police officer in San Antonio, Texas, targeted gay bars in search of anyone in the military…
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Is it okay to say ‘queer’? Reclaimed or offensive?
‘Not everyone is ready to reclaim the words that once caused them pain’ As a gay man reading about the…
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How big pharma’s practices hurt the fight against HIV
The year is 1998. While antiviral drugs to treat HIV had been approved a decade earlier, only five out of 33 million people who carried the virus were receiving the life-saving treatment. Nowhere was…