Health
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15 October 2012San Francisco: Man sues gay porn company over erection injections 10 A stage assistant from San Francisco has launched legal action against a gay pornography company after he was allegedly forced to inject performers with a controlled drug to prolong their erections. -
12 October 2012Canada: New birth certificate rules for transgender people in Ontario 18 Transgender people in Ontario can now amend their gender on their birth certificates without first having to undergo gender confirmation surgery. -
11 October 2012Gambian president: I’ve ‘cured’ 68 HIV patients 31 Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has once again made outspoken remarks about HIV and is repeating claims that he can treat the virus with herbs. -
10 October 2012Attitude editor praises Will Young for talking about ‘gay shame’ 19 Matthew Todd, the editor of Attitude magazine, has praised Will Young for talking openly about his problems of embracing his sexuality. -
9 October 2012UK: National AIDS Trust celebrates 25th anniversary with special video 39 The UK’s National AIDS Trust is celebrating its 25th anniversary today with a new campaign film. -
5 October 2012California: Second lawsuit filed against gay ‘cure’ ban 26 A second federal lawsuit has been filed seeking to overturn California's new ban on gay conversion therapy for those under the age of 18. -
5 October 2012New York: Health officials urge HIV positive men to get vaccinated against meningitis + The New York City Health Department is advising for vaccinations against meningitis for any man who is HIV positive and has had intimate contact with men met through gay dating sites or in bars since 1 September 2012. -
4 October 2012US: Trans prisoner files for expenses from gender-reassignment legal battle + Michelle Kosilek, the trans woman incarcerated in an all-male prison, has filed for the expenses she, and her attorney, are requesting from the court, following a ruling that her legal costs, as well as the cost of gender reassignment surgery, as a treatment for gender dysphoria. -
4 October 2012UK: Journalist welcomes BACP decision to strike off anti-gay therapist 5 Lesley Pilkington, the Christian psychotherapist who was found to be providing gay conversion therapy, has finally been struck off by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). -
3 October 2012US: Trans woman’s health insurance will pay for gender-reassignment surgery 7 A New York trans woman has won the right to have gender-reassignment surgery paid for by her health insurance, following an out of court settlement with her insurance company. -
3 October 2012US: Christian student hospitalised with ‘alcohol enema’ hits out at media coverage 60 A University of Tennessee (UT) student who found fame after 'butt-chugging' enough wine to put him in hospital has now denied using an alcohol enema because of his Christian faith. -
3 October 2012US: Gay rights group releases huge study of LGBT youth 6 The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has surveyed over 10,000 LGBT youth aged between 10 and 13 in the largest known sample of its kind in the US. -
3 October 2012US: Lawsuit to challenge California ban on gay ‘cure’ therapy 9 A Christian group are set to sue in an attempt to reverse California's new law which will ban gay 'cure' treatments for people under 18 from January 2013. -
2 October 2012UK: BACP warns against gay conversion therapy 16 Britain's largest professional body of psychotherapists has warned its members against attempting to "convert" gay people, after discovering practitioners were still offering the "treatment".
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2 October 2012Arnold Schwarzenegger’s parents thought he was gay and tried to ‘cure’ him 13 Film star-turned-politician, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has spoken out saying that his parents thought he was gay when he was a teenager, and that they took him to a doctor in order to try to "cure" him. -
1 October 2012California bans teenage gay ‘cure’ therapy 19 Campaigners and medical professionals have welcomed California Governor Jerry Brown’s decision to ban teenagers from accessing discredited treatments that seek to reject an LGBT identity. -
28 September 2012Canada: University website tracks anti-gay Twitter comments 13 A new Canadian social experiment has found that millions of anti-gay slurs have been used on Twitter in the past two months. -
27 September 2012New York: HIV positive men at risk over meningitis outbreak 5 A deadly cluster of bacterial meningitis has erupted among HIV positive gay men in New York City. -
26 September 2012UK doctor who told students to act ‘straight’ — fights back 48 Dr Una Coales, who last week was accused of telling medical students to avoid acting gay if they wanted to pass their exams, has hit back at the criticism. -
25 September 2012US: TV station drops Paris Hilton documentary following AIDS remarks 6 The US cable channel, Logo, has dropped a 2007 documentary about Paris Hiton from its schedule, because of the controversial remarks she made in the back of a cab about gay men and AIDS.
