Category: Around the World
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” […]
The study found that straight men responded to seeing porn images of men, as well as images of women. Article by Jesse Jones, StarObserver.com.au A new study suggests human sexuality is more fluid than previously thought, and even that nobody is fully heterosexual. The research by Cornell University in the US assessed sexual orientation by […]
Paris 2018 Gay Games 10 are being held from 4 – 12 August. With the motto “All Equal” these games intend to proudly show the values of respect, sharing and the end of discrimination in France and around the world. 15,000 athletes from more than 80 countries are expected to participate. 6500 have already registered. […]
LGBTI films and artists were honoured at the Oscars yesterday, with Call Me By Your Name and A Fantastic Woman taking home major prizes. Article by Laurence Barber, StarObserver.com.au A Fantastic Woman won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. That film’s star, trans actress Daniela Vega, later presented Sufjan Stevens’ performance of “Mystery of Love,” the Best Original Song […]
The health department of the Philippines has released figures which show the number of new HIV diagnoses has jumped 3147 percent over from 2007 to 2017. The number of diagnoses in 2007 was 342, ten years later in 2017, this has jumped to 11,103 new cases. Just days before the figures were released, Pink News […]
Cameron Kasky, a survivor of last week’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, has slammed Republicans for caring more about cakes at same-sex weddings than school shootings. In an interview with Anderson Cooper, Kasky referenced the Supreme Court case of a Colorado cake shop which refused to bake a cake for a gay couple, PinkNews reported. “There’s […]