Category: Around the World
Users flooded Sina Weibo with the hashtag #IAmGay, prompting the site to reverse its LGBTI ban. Jesse Jones, StarObserver.com.au Chinese social media site Sina Weibo has reversed its decision to ban LGBTI content. The site yesterday announced it would no longer include LGBTI material in its ban of violent and pornographic content, CNET has reported. Users flooded […]
“I’m not angry because [the painkillers] made me who I am” Jesse Jones, StarObserver.com.au A British man says he was turned gay by the pain pills he was prescribed for a broken foot. Scott Purdy said he was straight until he started taking the medication Lyrica for pain following the fracture, Pink News has reported. He said […]
More than a year after the first reports of Chechnya’s ‘gay purge’, most of the men taken by authorities have still not been found and are feared to be imprisoned or dead. Article by Jesse Jones, StarObserver.com.au More than a year after the first reports of gay and bisexual men in Chechnya being tortured in […]
Grindr has said HIV status will no longer be shared with other data as of the app’s next update – whenever that may be – and defended itself, calling the app a “public forum”. Article by Laurence Barber, StarObserver.com.au Gay dating and hookup app Grindr has been sharing sensitive data that includes users’ HIV status […]
Carlos Alvarado wins the presidential election in Costa Rica on a pro–gay rights message against conservative evangelical pastor Fabricio Alvarado Munoz who campaigned against same-sex marriage. “Costa Rica once again delivered a beautiful democratic message” Alvarado, 38, told supporters. My commitment is to a government for everybody, in equality and liberty. There is much more […]
Reversing policy put in place by the previous regime, The White House has released orders, despite opposition from top military officials and previous rulings against the ban, that members of the transgender community may not enlist in the US armed forces. This latest memo states that trans people are “disqualified from military service except under […]
Infamous pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli has been jailed for seven years. The Turing Pharmaceuticals founder came under fire in 2015 after buying the rights to 62-year old drug Daraprim, which is used to treat conditions including AIDS-related toxoplasmosis, and raising the price to US$750 a pill. The 5500% price rise sparked outrage, but Shkreli refused […]
The world’s largest HIV conference returns 30 years later to where the AIDS epidemic first emerged in the US. AIDS 2020 will take place on 6 – 10 July 2020 and is expected to bring together more than 15,000 participants from around the world. “San Francisco is an inseparable part of the story of HIV/AIDS” […]