Day: May 12, 2020
Public Health England has published instructions on how to fight COVID-19 with an old t-shirt transformed into both a crop-top and a face-mask. The Department of Health and Social Care’s instructional information guide follows the British government’s announcement this week that citizens should aim to wear face coverings in some shops and public transport. However, […]
After 25 years of service, a former police lieutenant believes that he was fired for being gay and HIV positive. Steven Prendergast who has now filed a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles first walked the streets as a police officer back in 1995. Prendergast who had been promoted regularly throughout his employment soon […]
One of Israel’s leading rabbi believes that gay teens should be forced to conduct conversion therapy sessions in a bid to “help people be straight again.” Yigal Levinstein, a co-head of a Zionist pre-military Academy, made the claims about the dangerous and ineffective practice during a Zoom class. “It’s possible to help people be straight […]
In a historic move, Brazil’s top court has ruled that the nation’s ban on men who have sex with men (MSM) from donating blood is unconstitutional. According to Reuters, seven of the 11 judges on the Brazilian Supreme Court ruled in favour of lifting the ban, which prohibited MSM from donating blood for 12 months. […]
New research out of Australia has found domestic and family violence (DFV) in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or queer (LGBTQ) communities often go unrecognised. Findings from Developing programs for perpetrators and victims/survivors of domestic and family violence report also highlighted unique tactics of abuse in LGBTQ DFV, such as the threat of being ‘outed’ or […]
Following the murder of two trans women in Puerto Rico last month, a transgender woman has been found stabbed to death in Southeast Missouri raising concerns by LGBT+ groups about an epidemic of violence against trans people. The woman, Nina Pop, was found dead in her apartment with multiple stab wounds, according to the Associated […]