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5 LGBTQ things you need to know today, Feb. 28

1. Log Cabin Republicans leader Gregory T. Angelo maintains that Donald Trump is a "pro-LGBT president" despite attempting to ban transgender people from military service, appointing anti-LGBTQ judges to federa...

Atlanta organizations host National HIV Testing Day events

Today is National HIV Testing Day — 24 hours set aside to encourage HIV testing and increase awareness of the effects this disease has in the US.“This is not the ‘80s and ‘90s where there’s this huge fundam...

HIV/AIDS cuts in Trump budget called ‘shocking,’ ‘cruel’

Proponents of funding to combat HIV/AIDS continue to express alarm over cuts to federal programs, which in some cases are massive, in the budget proposal that President Trump unveiled last week amid questions o...

AID Atlanta files federal suit against CDC over funding

Nonprofit AID Atlanta clapped back at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on May 11, filing a lawsuit after CDC pulled the plug on funding its HIV prevention programs earlier this year.Nicole Roe...

New HIV stats cause anxiety for Georgia’s LGBT community

In June 2014, a team of HIV/AIDS activists from New York teamed up with Atlanta activists to call out the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on their strategies and sense of urgency regarding the fight ...

Atlanta at the center of HIV/AIDS news, events this month

Georgia ranks second in the U.S. in the rate of new HIV infections and Atlanta is fifth among metropolitan areas according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So perhaps it's appropriate that Atl...

What you need to know about the dog flu outbreak

This story is part of our annual Pets issue, which you can read in full here.As new cases of canine influenza have appeared in Georgia, veterinarians are urging vigilance for pet owners and pet fosters. Sne...

CDC awards Atlanta organizations $15 million in funding for HIV prevention

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention will award roughly $15 million in funding over a five-year period to nine different Atlanta-area community based organizations to go towards HIV prevention efforts....

Atlanta HIV-positive youth pair up with elected officials to face down a crisis

There's an HIV problem in Atlanta, especially among youth, and the Equality Foundation of Georgia (the education, training and analysis arm of Georgia Equality) is taking it on by introducing a unique new progr...

Fulton returns millions in funding meant for HIV prevention

The agency responsible for curtailing the exploding number of new HIV infections in Atlanta has been returning sometimes as much of or more of the money it receives from the CDC due to failure to spend it.W...

CDC: Only 30 percent of Americans with HIV have the virus under control

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a new report on HIV today showing that just 30 percent of Americans with the virus had it under control, and approximately two-thirds of those whose virus...

A time of reckoning: Atlanta's LGBTQ community addresses racism problem

Health Dept. Proposes Removing Data Collection on LGBTQ Foster Kids

Trump’s Transgender Military Ban to Affect Naval Academy

Same-Sex Couples More Likely To Be Denied a Loan, Study Says

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Converse Releases New Pride and Trans Pride Sneakers

Frank Ocean Reveals He’s Been in a Relationship for Three Years

Watch: Jimmy Fallon Parodies Pete Buttigieg on ‘Tonight Show’