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April 2, 2020

Top HIV scientist dies from coronavirus in ‘huge blow’ to the global fight against HIV/AIDS

Professor Gita Ramjee, a highly acclaimed scientist who dedicated her life to fighting and preventing HIV, has sadly died of coronavirus. Ramjee, 64, was a South African researcher internationally renowned for her work expanding disadvantaged women’s access to HIV treatment. On March 31 she tragically passed away from...

April 2, 2020

Asylum seeker beaten, doused in petrol and threatened with beheading by his own dad finally told he deserves refuge

A gay asylum seeker from Ghana who was beaten, doused in petrol and threatened with beheading by homophobic mob led by his own dad has been given reprieve after the US denied him refuge. The man, who is in his late twenties and originally from Ghana’s capital, Accra, was in a secret relationship with an …...

April 2, 2020

Walking Dead star Daniel Newman owes thousands for a coronavirus test that was never processed

Walking Dead star Daniel Newman was finally given a coronavirus test after imperious weeks of leapfrogging emergency rooms with suspected symptoms, but the results never came. In fact, Newman’s test was never even processed. What did arrive, however, was a medical bill for $9,116. Last month the actor, who played...

April 2, 2020

Gay man shares his boyfriend’s near-death coronavirus experience with a stark warning: ‘Everyone should be terrified’

A gay man who watched his partner struggle through coronavirus has shared his story with the warning: “Everyone should be terrified.” Brian Zupanic lives in New York City with his partner of ten years, John Giarratano, a freelance TV producer. Aged 42 and with no pre-existing health conditions, Giarratano...

April 2, 2020

Tiger King star Joe Exotic ‘self-isolating due to coronavirus’ in prison, husband says

Joseph Maldonado-Passage, otherwise known as Joe Exotic from the Netflix docu-series Tiger King, is “on a COVID-19 isolation because of the previous jail he was at, there were cases”, his husband said. Exotic’s fourth husband, 24-year-old bartender Dillon Passage, told Andy Cohen, who recently recovered...

April 2, 2020

Doctors are turning away gay men with valuable coronavirus antibodies that could save lives

Doctors trialing an experimental antibody treatment in the fight against coronavirus are reportedly turning away gay men whose blood could help save lives. Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, USA, is collecting the antibody-rich plasma of people who have recovered from coronavirus, so they can inject it into...

April 1, 2020

White House shamefully blames the ‘radical left’ for sharp rise in homophobic hate groups linked to Trump

The Trump White House has flatly rejected criticism over its ties to anti-LGBT hate groups. A report from anti-extremism watchdog Southern Poverty Law Center revealed a “sharp expansion” in the number of anti-LGBT hate groups operating across the US – an increase from 49 groups to 70 in just one year. The...

April 1, 2020

Pastor who thinks homosexuality is evil and Jesus will save him from coronavirus could face jail for holding church services

An anti-gay Louisiana pastor who flouted a public lockdown to bus in thousands to his megachurch is facing misdemeanour charges. Pastor Tony Spell has refused to close down Life Tabernacle Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana despite the lockdown, instead bussing in more than 1,800 people to attend his Sunday morning service....

April 1, 2020

Tiger King’s gay gun-toting redneck Joe Exotic asked Marilyn Manson to endorse him for governor

Tiger King is wild and each day it outdoes itself after not only having a Britney Spears and a Michael Jackon plot twist, but now there’s a Marilyn Manson one, too. In an Instagram post published Wednesday, the rocker revealed that when the titular Tiger King Joe Exotic was running for governor of Oklahoma, he...

April 1, 2020

Healthcare workers are so desperate for protective equipment, even Cher is being begged for help

Healthcare providers battling the heaving rise of coronaviruses in the US are begging for protective gear, and some are even calling on singer Cher to join the chorus of campaigners. The Goddess of Pop is no stranger to wading into the political, often armed with capital letters and charged choices of words. Throughout the...