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Common Decency, Common Sense

IGF Culture Watch  Nov 18 09

by David Link

I’ve obviously been in a foul mood since Maine, and needed some good cheer.
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Oklahoma Legislator Wants Exemption To Hate Crimes Law In Order To End State's Raging Corpse-Fucking Epidemic

Joe My God  Nov 17 09

Oklahoma state Sen. Steve Russell (R) plans to submit a bill that would authorize the state to opt out of the recently passed Matthew Shepard Act.
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Battling Twin Plagues of HIV-TB

HIVPlusMag.com  Nov 05 09

The double epidemic has decreased life expectancy to less than 32 years for Swaziland's citizens.
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Hep C Being Transmitted Sexually

HIVPlusMag.com  Nov 04 09

Researchers in New York City uncover a new epidemic of the virus among HIV-positive gay and bisexual men.
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Obama Reauthorizes HIV/AIDS Law, Promises To End Travel Ban On Monday

Topix Gay News  Oct 30 09

Today, President Barack Obama extended and strengthened the coverage of HIV/AIDS in the United States by signing into law the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act.
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Obama signs Ryan White act extension; announces Jan. repeal of HIV travel ban

Qnews  Oct 30 09

With Ryan White’s mother in attendance at a ceremony in the Diplomatic Reception Room, President Obama this morning signed the fourth re-extension of the HIV/AIDS funding program that bears the name of White, a 13-year-old boy from central Indiana who in 1984 contracted HIV/AIDS from a transfusion, and died in 1990.
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The beginning of the end

Bilerico  Oct 29 09

As I stood watching President Obama make his remarks about the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Hate Crimes Act at the White House yesterday, I was struck by the history of the moment and also caught up in the emotion of the moment, both personally and for our community.
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"Her R71 ballot was the last document that she attached her signature to."

Pams House blend  Oct 28 09

Joe Mirabella has given us permission to re-post this story.  I think anyone working in the trenches for human rights will appreciate it.
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Miley's Little Sister Loves Stripper Boots

Perez Hilton  Oct 26 09

Jesus would not approve! Miley's 9-year old sister, Noah Cyrus, put the global underage human trafficking epidemic to shame on Saturday when she showed up to the Children Affected by AIDS Foundation's 16th Annual Dream Halloween in El Lay dressed like a dominatrix THAT! Eewwwww!!! And she loves those stripper boots! The Scores dancer-in-training managed to [.
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Trying to stop HIV/AIDS deaths = Child molestation

Bilerico  Oct 24 09

The latest attack on Kevin Jennings is that he was once an ACT UP activist and that he gave money to a exhibition related to the history of ACT UP.
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Are you suffering from drunkorexia?

GaySocialites  Oct 21 09

My classmates and I at the University of Tennessee would have considered this too much like work, but college kids these days are drunkorexic.
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Protect Marriage Washington Spreads Fear Along With Misinformation

Topix Gay News  Oct 20 09

If truth is important, it will not need a bodyguard of lies to make it shine through. The fact that those who oppose marriage equality have surrounded their beliefs in a bodyguard of lies only shows that their 'truth' is not worth anything.
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East Bay AIDS doctor Robert Scott dies

Google HIV News / Bay Area Reporter  Oct 15 09

Bay Area Reporter East Bay AIDS doctor Robert Scott diesBay Area ReporterDr. Scott, who was openly gay, founded the AIDS Project of the East Bay in 1983 to help address the epidemic in Oakland.
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How Equality Can Help Save Our Children

Google HIV News / Afro American  Oct 14 09

SheWired How Equality Can Help Save Our ChildrenAfro AmericanOur failure in the 1980s and 1990s to address the spread of HIV and AIDS with love, caring and understanding has led to what is now an epidemic in our .
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Attacking HIV's Racial Disparities

HIVPlusMag.com  Oct 08 09

Infection rate among African-Americans is an "indictment" of the U.S. response to epidemic.
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Is Exposure to Hair Straightening Chemicals Causing Black Children's Epidemic of Asthma Attacks?

Pams House blend  Oct 08 09

 

Please see the above trailer for Chris Rock's movie, "Good Hair," in which he has to answer his little daughters question,

"Daddy, why is my hair 'bad'?"

Many Black people in Brazil (where I live) and in the United States are using formaldehyde to straighten their hair.
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Rock Band DLC - Gay Bar

GayGamer  Oct 06 09

Whether you like it or hate it, Gay Bar finally shows up in Rock Band DLC this week. Oh, and there are some other fine artists, including Alanis Morissette, The Raconteurs, and even a Flobots song! The Raconteurs - "Many Shades of Black" The Raconteurs - "Salute Your Solution" The Raconteurs - "Steady, As She Goes" Alanis Morissette - "Head Over Feet" Alanis Morissette - "Ironic" Electric Six - "Dance Epidemic" Electric Six - "Gay Bar" Electric Six - "I Don't Like You" The Flobots - "Handlebars" These tracks are released on Tuesday for Xbox and Thursday for Playstation.
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Black queers are tying the knot

Bilerico  Oct 01 09

More and more lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people of African descent are marrying.
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If AIDS Went the Way of Smallpox

Google HIV News / New York Times  Sep 26 09

New York Times If AIDS Went the Way of SmallpoxNew York TimesAt the time, the epidemic had killed a few hundred gay American men, hemophiliacs, drug users and transfusion recipients.
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A Clinic Opens in D.C.

Men of Color  Sep 26 09

In the heart of the epidemic, a free HIV/AIDS clinic opens in Washington D.C.
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