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Chinese HIV-Testing Study Finds Crowdsourced Promotion Effective

On August 28th, PLOS Medicine published the findings of a study testing the effectiveness of crowdsourcing campaigns in promoting HIV testing among men who are sexually active with other men in eight Chinese ci...

Survey Says LGBTQ People Want More Than Words From Ally Companies

Research done by the polling firm YouGov suggests that LGBTQ people want more help from companies during the rest of the year – not just during Pride. In a recent YouGov survey, an estimated seventy-five per...

Iceland May Lift Blood Donor Ban For Gay Men

News sources suggest that Iceland may soon lift its legal ban barring gay men from donating blood. The North Atlantic nation's Ministry of Health is reviewing, and apparently giving serious consideration to,...

Chelsea Manning Denied Entry To Australia

Chelsea Manning, the once-imprisoned activist, leaker of classified information, and transgender woman, has been barred from entering the country of Australia, news sources have reported. Human rights organi...

Global Backlash Against Conversion “Therapy” Continues

It was not until relatively recently that LGBTQ identities were declassified as mental illnesses. In 1992, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that “sexual orientation by itself is not to be classified...