Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on Saturday signed a bill that adds sexual orientation and gender identity to the state’s nondiscrimination law. “This legislation sends a strong, clear message — Virginia is a place where all people are welcome to live, work,…
Amid the coronavirus crisis, state health officials responsible for gathering data on COVID-19 are declining to collect and report whether or not patients identify as LGBTQ — a practice that angers LGBTQ advocates who say those answers could yield important information…
A cadre of 17 senators — including six former presidential hopefuls and one current candidate — are calling on the Food & Drug Administration to take another look at the ban prohibiting gay and bisexual men from donating blood amid the coronavirus crisis…
Despite calls for increased blood donations amid the coronavirus crisis, the Food & Drug Administration is staying firm on its ban prohibiting gay men from donating blood. “At this time, FDA’s recommendations regarding blood donor deferral for men who have…
South Carolina’s law banning the mention of same-sex relationships or other LGBTQ topics in sex education classes is unconstitutional and can no longer be enforced, a federal court ruled Wednesday. Under the 1988 law, sex ed classes in the state’s…
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on Monday signed a bill that will ban so-called conversion therapy for minors in the state. Maryland and D.C. are among the U.S. jurisdictions in which the highly discredited practice has been banned. Virginia will become…
The Department of Health and Human Services stripped from a government website HIV/AIDS educational material that featured condoms, calling the images “unapproved,” according to official correspondence obtained by Kaiser Health News. The images had been included in a 2017 fact sheet…
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