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Housing discrimination against LGBT people is still OK

Housing discrimination against LGBT people is still OK  - Louisiana lawmakers have rejected a bill that would have prohibited housing discrimination based on sexual orientation or ...

Same-Sex Marriage in Michigan: Couples Retain Federal Benefits

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Same-Sex Marriage in Michigan: Couples Retain Federal Benefits  - Last week's flip-flop on Michigan's gay marriage ban created confusion and uncertainty amongst recently married LGBTQ couples in the state. First ..

Law would force schools to allow gay-straight alliances

Law would force schools to allow gay-straight alliances  - If the Tories really want to walk the walk on being supportive of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) people, they have to do more ...

US immigration officials free gay Ethiopian man pending asylum request

US immigration officials free gay Ethiopian man pending asylum request  - An official with Amnesty International told LGBTQ Nation that LGBT people in Ethiopia face criminal sanctions and prison time for offenses related to ...

Catholic teacher policy will hurt students

Catholic teacher policy will hurt students  - Policies like the archdiocese's are disrespectful of the LGBTQ youth in their schools, not to mention the LGBTQ teachers, and the many straight allies ...

B'MORE Proud energizes students

B'MORE Proud energizes students  - More than 200 LGBTQ students and allies registered for the conference, which took place at Johns Hopkins for the second time since this summit ...

Alberta can't afford not to fund U of A master's program in gender studies

Alberta can't afford not to fund U of A master's program in gender studies  - Edmonton and many other cities, as well as other levels of government around the world, flew the rainbow flag in honour of LGBTQ athletes whose ...

Cure still elusive on 30th anniversary of HIV discovery

Cure still elusive on 30th anniversary of HIV discovery  -  HIV , or human immunodeficiency virus has been the subject of intense research since its discovery in the hope of stopping the deadly virus in its tracks ...

DOH report: HIV cases abound in love month

DOH report: HIV cases abound in love month  - THERE is no love lost between human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV ) and the month of February as almost 500 new cases were recorded in that month ...

Risk score can help predict which people living with HIV have highest risk of kidney disease during ...

Risk score can help predict which people living with HIV have highest risk of kidney disease during ...  - Investigators in the United States have developed a risk score to predict which people living with HIV have the highest risk of developing chronic ...

Chemsex' trend linked to rising STI rates in south London

Chemsex' trend linked to rising STI rates in south London  - A growing 'Chemsex' trend of mixing sex with drugs such as crystal meth could spark rising rates of HIV in gay and bisexual men in London, a study ...

Sex Workers Use Emergency Drugs Instead of Condoms

Sex Workers Use Emergency Drugs Instead of Condoms  - South Sudan's AIDS Commission says at least 150,000 people in the country are living with HIV . Despite this, some sex workers are having ...

Effective Responses to HIV and Aids Addressed in Tanzania

Effective Responses to HIV and Aids Addressed in Tanzania  - Religious beliefs and traditions in Africa continue to influence the way HIV is spread, especially among young women. There is a great need to ...

SA holds highest number of new HIV infections worldwide - survey

SA holds highest number of new HIV infections worldwide - survey  - The proportion of South Africans infected with HIV has increased from 10.6% in 2008 to 12.2% in 2012, according to the Human Sciences Research ...

HIV risk linked to domestic violence

HIV risk linked to domestic violence  - New research from Sweden has shown that wives who suffer from domestic violence have a 15 per cent greater chance to be infected with HIV  ...

Northern Cape a 'homophobic province'

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Northern Cape a 'homophobic province'  - South Africa also chose to remain silent while lesbian, gay , bisexual, transgender and intersex rights have been under attack in Nigeria, Uganda and ...

Public health dominates S. Africa electioneering

Public health dominates S. Africa electioneering  - South Africa , which has one of the world's highest HIV prevalence rates, is also home to the world's largest anti-retroviral drugs program, used in the ...

Guinea's Ebola epidemic unprecedented

Guinea's Ebola epidemic unprecedented  - In fifth edition of this HIV and AIDs education, care and counselling book ... The warning from an organisation used to tackling Ebola in Central Africa  ...

Cut aid to African countries with anti-gay law bans

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Cut aid to African countries with anti- gay law bans  - On 25 March, Ethiopia became the third African country, after Uganda and Nigeria, to institute long-term imprisonments for Lesbian , Gay , Bisexual and ...

Ugandan cleric reaches out to LGBT community in spite of anti-gay law

Ugandan cleric reaches out to LGBT community in spite of anti- gay law  - The enactment of Uganda's new anti- gay law has spread fear among .... States evangelicals who wanted to spread their anti- gay agenda in Africa and ...

Helping the black family through gay marriage

Helping the black family through gay marriage  - Theirs was a straightforward survey of African American gay and lesbian singles and same-sex couples. But I made the connection between blacks ...

Gay South African Brutally Murdered

Gay South African Brutally Murdered   - A 21-year-old gay man in South Africa was tortured and murdered in the Belle Vista neighborhood of Ceres — and the alleged suspect reportedly ...

Europe-Africa relations: Well-intentioned diplomatic disaster?

Europe- Africa relations: Well-intentioned diplomatic disaster?  - The 4th EU- Africa Summit takes place in Brussels on 2-3 April. ... Some in the Lesbian , Gay , Bisexuals and Transgender ( LGBT ) community in Africa  ...

Everything you need to know about Africa's anti-gay crackdown

Everything you need to know about Africa's anti- gay crackdown  - Everything you need to know about Africa's anti- gay crackdown. Uganda and Nigeria have launched campaigns to ban homosexuality and throw gays ...

Why Africa's Turning Anti-Gay

Why Africa's Turning Anti- Gay  - In fact, the rising tide of anti- gay sentiment in sub-Saharan Africa , as elsewhere, is an ironic brew of anti-Westernism and Western influence.