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Gay and Bisexual Men with Prostate Cancer Face Unique and Unaddressed Challenges

Challenges specific to gay and bisexual men with prostate cancer often go unaddressed, reported NBC News. Prostate cancer is the most prevalent invasive cancer among men, with nearly one in eight men affecte...

5 LGBTQ things you need to know today, March 20

1. The Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award-winning actress Cynthia Nixon, best known by many as Miranda from "Sex and the City," has announced she is running against incumbent Andrew Cuomo for governor of New York in t...

FDA opens door to ending gay blood donation ban

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration signaled Tuesday that it is reevaluating its policy on blood donations by gay and bisexual men, less than a year after changing its former policy and less than two months s...

Orlando shooting brings scrutiny on FDA’s gay blood ban

On Thursday, June 9, OneBlood, a blood bank that services Florida and parts of Georgia and South Carolina, issued a press release saying they had an “urgent need” for O negative blood, a type of blood that's in...

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 ...

Health and wellness in gay, bisexual men addressed at MSM Symposium [PHOTOS]

Over 100 people were present Thursday evening at The Loudermilk Center for the opening reception of the fourth annual MSM (men who have sex with men) Symposium presented by the Georgia Department of Public H...

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....

Georgia lawmakers to recognize state’s HIV epidemic’s effect on black gay men

The Georgia Legislative Black Caucus is set to hold a public hearing next week to bring awareness to the state’s high HIV infection rates, especially among African Americans including black gay men and transgen...

Atlanta and Georgia honor World AIDS Day

The first World AIDS Day was held in 1988 and is recognized each year on Dec. 1 with numerous events to unite in the fight against HIV/AIDS, honor those living with HIV, and commemorate those who have died. ...

Craig Washington: Black gay men relegated to margins of HIV crisis coverage

Every year, in observance of World AIDS Day, journalists, health departments, clinics and AIDS service organizations are cued to spew loads of HIV statistics and trends. As the hardest hit community, black gay,...

CDC: half of gay, bisexual men with HIV don’t receive treatment

The CDC announced today that half of gay and bisexual men diagnosed with HIV received care and treatment in 2010, and only 42 percent of them reached viral suppression—meaning when the virus is at a level that ...

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

Atlantans Prohibited from Visiting Gay-friendly Blue Ridge During Outbreak

Transgender Legal Group Releases Coronavirus Guide

Justice Department Supports Lawsuit Banning Trans Girls from High School Sports

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Dating App #Open Offers Free Virtual Sex-ed Class to Help Ease the ‘Self-isolation’ Blues

WATCH: Sex Toy Sign Language from ‘Tacoma FD’

Epidemic Eating: Spend, Tip, Donate, Volunteer, and Don’t Panic