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Cuts by the Trump administration to PEPFAR have forced 1,700 sites providing HIV care around the world to close. That’s according to a new study by amfAR scheduled for release next week at the International AIDS Conference in Brazil. The HIV research organization shared its findings with The New York Times.
An Idaho transgender teenager who challenged the state’s school bathroom law died by suicide earlier this year, and her family says the relentless expansion of anti-transgender laws made her daily life increasingly isolating, according to NBC News.
Early on June 10, 2006, Kevin Aviance left the Phoenix, a bar in the East Village. A group followed him down First Avenue, throwing garbage and a paint can and shouting slurs. They surrounded him and beat him, breaking his jaw. Four people were arrested.
This story was originally published by Uncloseted Media, an LGBTQ focused investigative news outlet, and includes references to sexual abuse. Viewer/reader discretion is advised.
This story originally appeared on Them. A Spokane, Washington, coffee stand has taken down a transphobic and ableist sign after community backlash, according to local newspaper The Spokesman-Review.
President Donald Trump falsely claimed that a technology law signed by President Joe Biden requires chip manufacturers to hire transgender executives.
Forty-five years after the first cases of HIV were reported in the United States, we possess something unimaginable to the generation that first confronted this epidemic: the science to prevent HIV, treat it effectively, and allow people living with HIV to lead long, healthy lives. Yet one of the greatest barriers to ending the epidemic has never been the virus itself.
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Kevin Aviance was fixing his makeup when he appeared on camera from New York City, apologizing for the noise. There were shows to prepare, music to finish, Pride weekend approaching. Twenty years after a group of men attacked him on a Manhattan street, the towering drag artist and queer dance music icon was busy being Kevin Aviance.
Fox News host Jesse Watters warned jokingly that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plan to screen troops’ testosterone levels could contribute to a culture of sexual violence in the military, and the network has said nothing about it since
