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Added on: 07/24/2024

UN says nearly 40 million people had HIV in 2023, lack of treatment means someone died every minute

07/23/2024

Nearly 40 million people were living with the HIV virus that causes AIDS last year, more than 9 million weren’t getting any treatment, and the result was…

Global News

Added on: 07/23/2024

Out of the closet, out of care: LGBTQ communities in Malawi struggle to access health care

07/22/2024

In Lilongwe, Malawi, 24-year-old Cleo Jones recalls feeling more comfortable around girls than boys during childhood. Jones came out as queer and nonbinary at the age of…

Global News

Added on: 07/23/2024

Israel LGBTQ+ Medical Society launches course on transgender-friendly protocols

07/22/2024

When Y. J. Chichester Salant, a 27-year-old trans woman, went to an ENT doctor in Tel Aviv because of a serious upper respiratory infection, one of the…

Global News

Added on: 07/21/2024

‘Better days’ ahead for South Korea LGBTQ couples after landmark ruling

07/20/2024

When South Korea was run by a military-backed authoritarian government in the 1970s, a “coffee house” where lesbians secretly gathered was an easy target. The country has…

World Voices

Added on: 06/11/2024

A. REVATHI: A LIFE IN TRANS ACTIVISM: A HIJRA LIFE STORY

Grace Fausett

Alturi Contributor

Past In India, a majority of transwomen have to seek out a living through two things, sex work and begging. That continues to be the reality for…

Alturi Blog

Added on: 05/29/2024

STRENGTH IN SOLIDARITY: CELEBRATING THE INTERSECTION OF QUEER AND DISABLED PEOPLE

James Hunt

Alturi Contributor

Many studies carried out in the past several years have begun to note the correlation between disability and those who identify as queer. Whether this is a…

Global News

Added on: 05/28/2024

FDA Maintains Discriminatory Rules on Donated Tissue for Gay and Bisexual Men

05/27/2024

The federal government in 2020 and 2023 changed who it said could safely donate organs and blood, reducing the restrictions on men who have had sex with…

Global News

Added on: 05/28/2024

Zackie Achmat and His Queer Revolution

05/27/2024

For many South Africans, Zackie Achmat is best remembered as the co-founder of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), which waged a valiant battle to compel Thabo Mbeki’s…

Global News

Added on: 05/15/2024

Groundbreaking research tackles sexual health needs of LGBTQA+ Australians with disabilities

05/15/2024

Cerebral Palsy Alliance (CPA) and Western Sydney University (WSU) have joined forces on a groundbreaking four-year research project to address the long-neglected issue of sexual healthcare for…

Global News

Added on: 05/07/2024

Research shows LGBTQI+ health-related content in medical school has increased

05/06/2024

Reducing barriers to comprehensive and affirming health care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+) populations requires physicians to receive LGBTQI+ health content during undergraduate…

Global News

Added on: 05/06/2024

The Many Enemies Of Iraqi Transgender: The State, Islamists — And Some Feminists

05/05/2024

I don’t know if such words somehow justify, with their naivety, the ignorance of what is happening to trans women in Iraq among queer circles in the…

Global News

Added on: 04/30/2024

How a digital archive is preserving Canada’s history of LGBTQ+ activism

04/29/2024

LGBTQ+ organizations in Canada are gearing up for a “Rainbow Week of Action” that will feature rallies across the country calling on governments to do more to…

Global News

Added on: 04/28/2024

Biden administration restores protections for gay and transgender Americans seeking health care

04/27/2024

The Biden administration announced a new rule Friday expanding safeguards against potential discrimination of gay and transgender Americans seeking medical care, in a reversal of Trump-era limitations…

Global News

Added on: 04/24/2024

Wales is latest UK nation to pause puberty blockers for under-18s

04/23/2024

Wales has become the latest UK nation to pause the use of puberty blockers by under-18s. The physically reversible hormone blockers, which suppress unwanted elements of puberty…

Global News

Added on: 04/24/2024

Tokyo Rainbow Pride Celebrates 30 Years

04/24/2024

Over the weekend in Japan, 15,000 people took part in the 2024 Tokyo Rainbow Pride parade, one of the biggest LGBTQIA+ events in Southeast Asia. All colours…

Global News

Added on: 04/24/2024

New Queer Future Beckons for Former Sydney Police Station

04/23/2024

Not-for-profit Qtopia has applied to permanently transform a former police station into the Sydney Centre for Queer History and Culture. Along with Create NSW—the NSW Government’s arts…

Global News

Added on: 04/23/2024

Lawsuit in London to allege Grindr shared users’ HIV status with ad firms

04/22/2024

Grindr faces the prospect of legal action by hundreds of users who will allege that the dating app shared highly sensitive personal information, including in some cases…

Global News

Added on: 04/21/2024

Learning Love and Loyalty in the AIDS Crisis

04/20/2024

David called me on Saturday, April 23, 1994, to tell me Bill died that morning at 8:35. Now it was over. The inevitability, the feelings of resignation,…

Global News

Added on: 04/16/2024

US Supreme Court lets Idaho enforce ban on transgender care for minors

04/15/2024

The conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let a Republican-backed law in Idaho that criminalizes gender-affirming care for transgender minors broadly take effect after a federal judge…

Global News

Added on: 04/16/2024

Trans youth dying in suicide “epidemic” as UK increasingly restricts gender-affirming care

04/15/2024

Transgender 15-year-old Jason Pulman died by suicide after his country’s medical system told him he’d have to wait 26 months for his first gender-affirming care appointment. His…

Global News

Added on: 04/16/2024

First China transgender clinic deals with ‘visitors’ as it embraces country’s 4 million people with body dissatisfaction

04/15/2024

For China’s transgender population of four million – and those with empathy for them – they are people whose souls are trapped in the wrong body. At…

Global News

Added on: 04/16/2024

What Canadian doctors say about new U.K. review questioning puberty blockers for transgender youth

04/15/2024

A long-anticipated — and contentious — national review of gender-affirming care for youth in England was released last week, resulting in headlines across the U.K. saying that…

Global News

Added on: 04/13/2024

Kansas Governor Laura Kelly Vetoes Bill That Would Strip Away Access to Essential Health Care for Transgender Youth

04/12/2024

Today, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly vetoed SB 233, which, if enacted, would ban crucial, medically necessary health care for transgender youth. This is the latest anti-LGBTQ bill…

Global News

Added on: 04/10/2024

What are the key findings of the NHS gender identity review?

04/09/2024

A review into the NHS’s gender identity services has found that children and young people have been let down by a lack of research and evidence on…

Global News

Added on: 04/09/2024

Behind the movement that brought homosexuality — and psychiatry’s power — to a vote 50 years ago

04/08/2024

Fifty years ago, the nation’s psychiatrists effectively put gay people’s mental health — and their very place in society — to a vote. Five months prior, on…

Global News

Added on: 04/02/2024

Africa Pride 2024 will celebrate love in the face of hatred and homophobia

04/01/2024

A coalition of African LGBTQ+ rights group has announced plans for a continent-wide celebration of Pride. Africa Pride 2024 events will consist of online programs and a…

Global News

Added on: 03/26/2024

Amid book bans, DEI cuts and ‘Don’t Say Gay’ laws, 7 states will mandate LGBTQ-inclusive curricula

03/25/2024

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, signed a law last week that includes a mandate for the state’s public schools to teach LGBTQ history, as red and…

Global News

Added on: 03/16/2024

Bahrain: Continued Denial of Legal Gender Recognition and Gender-affirming Healthcare for Transgender People in the Name of Islamic Sharia

02/07/2024

In a recent judgment from May 2023, a Bahraini lower court rejected a transman’s application to obtain legal gender recognition and access gender-affirming healthcare, citing Islamic Sharia….

Global News

Added on: 03/10/2024

In Argentina, feminists and LGBT groups challenge Javier Milei

03/09/2024

Around a hundred women, transgender, and non-binary people gathered on Wednesday, March 6 on the patio of the Hotel Hector Quagliaro in Buenos Aires, loaned by the…

Global News

Added on: 03/09/2024

In Argentina, feminists and LGBT groups challenge Javier Milei

04/08/2024

Around a hundred women, transgender, and non-binary people gathered on Wednesday, March 6 on the patio of the Hotel Hector Quagliaro in Buenos Aires, loaned by the…