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December 2, 2019

New HIV diagnosis rates in Ireland now higher than the height of the AIDS epidemic

HIV rates in Ireland have risen again this year with numbers now higher than they were at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s. There have been 476 new diagnoses of HIV in Ireland this year so far compared to 447 in the same period of last year, according to The … Continued The post New HIV...

December 2, 2019

Congress sent powerful warning about rampant transphobia inspired by iconic 80s AIDS slogan

December 2, 2019

Ellen’s interview with 50 Shades star Dakota Johnson is so awkward it’ll ruin your Christmas

Ellen DeGeneres claimed she hadn’t been invited to Dakota Johnson’s birthday party, and Dakota Johnson said not today Satan. The Ellen DeGeneres Show is usually known for warm, friendly interviews, goofy humour and big-money giveaways. It is not usually known for Emily Maitliss-style interrogations backed with...

December 2, 2019

Elton John lashes out at security in NSFW rant after fan is ‘manhandled’ at concert

Elton John has angrily hit out at security staff working at one of his Australian shows after they tried to remove a woman from the venue. John was performing at Perth’s HBF Park stadium last night (December 1) when he saw a woman in the audience being escorted from the premises. “Hey, you two security …...

December 2, 2019

Trans woman sues pharmacy for revealing that she’s HIV-positive to her neighbours

A trans woman in Pennsylvania is suing a pharmacy for revealing her HIV-positive status to her neighbours, and causing her to experience stigma where she lives. The woman, who is going by the name Jane Doe, was having her medication delivered to her apartment building by local pharmacy SunRay Drugs. According to court...

December 2, 2019

Piers Morgan had an ‘I don’t know her’ moment as he banned Caitlyn Jenner’s partner from Good Morning Britain

Piers Morgan pulled a Mariah Carey on Good Morning Britain, hitting back at Caitlyn Jenner’s partner Sophia Hutchins with a frosty “I don’t know her.” Morgan said that Hutchins was no longer welcome on the ITV breakfast show after she called him a “jack*ss” for asking invasive questions about her sex life....

December 2, 2019

Boris Johnson’s ‘bum boy’ slur makes him ‘unfit for public life,’ says gay Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price

Adam Price compared Boris Johnson’s use of homophobic and Islamophobic slurs to Donald Trump’s infamous “grab her by the p****” remark. The Plaid Cymru MP, the first openly gay leader of a major UK political party, said that it was a “sad reality” that Johnson “referred to gay men...

December 2, 2019

Actress who played Rosario on Will & Grace, Shelley Morrison, dies aged 83

Shelley Morrison, best known for playing Karen Walker’s maid Rosario on Will & Grace, has died at the age of 83. The actress passed away from heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after a brief illness. Will & Grace initially ran for eight seasons from 1998 to 2006, before its reboot in...

December 1, 2019

If the NHS was ‘for sale,’ what would it mean for PrEP?

Jeremy Corbyn has claimed that a Conservative government would put the NHS “up for sale” in order to strike a US trade deal, resulting in higher drug prices. At a press conference on Wednesday, November 27, the Labour leader brandished a 451-page dossier of “secret” UK-US talks. Corbyn claimed the...

December 1, 2019

Elite single-sex schools are changing their admissions policies to allow transgender students for the first time

Several same-sex private schools in the UK are considering changing their policies to admit transgender pupils for the first time, a report by The Independent has revealed. Headteachers in some elite schools are now saying they are admitting children “based on gender” rather than sex to avert potential legal...