Busting Out the Drag on the AIDS LifeCycle Ride
June 08 2012 5:02 PM ET

Busting Out the Drag on the AIDS/LifeCycle Ride

Advocate.com Editors

A long ride makes for great legs. What better way to show them off than in the red dress event?

Photos from the Road to Fighting AIDS and HIV
June 05 2012 5:47 PM ET

Photos from the Road to Fighting HIV/AIDS

Advocate.com Editors

Riders for this year's AIDS/LifeCycle are three days into their 545-mile trek from San Francisco to Los Angeles to raise money for the cause.

California Moves Closer to Outlawing Reparative Therapy
May 30 2012 5:02 PM ET

California Moves Closer to Outlawing 'Reparative Therapy'

Lucas Grindley

California moved one step closer today to outlawing any effort to change a minor's sexual orientation through therapy.

Researcher Robert Spitzer Puts His Apology to Gay People on Video
May 30 2012 11:36 AM ET

Robert Spitzer Puts His Retraction of 'Ex-Gay' Study on Video

Lucas Grindley

Scientist Robert Spitzer's retraction of his 2001 study that claimed gays could switch their sexual orientation has been on the record first with

World Health Organization Affiliate Discredits ExGay Therapy and Urges Nations to Condemn It
May 18 2012 6:30 PM ET

World's Oldest Public Health Group Blasts 'Ex-Gay' Therapy

Neal Broverman

The group is part of the World Health Organization, representing WHO in the Americas.

Activists Wonder If Support from Obama Will Be Boon for Benefits
May 15 2012 5:00 AM ET

Is Obama's Marriage Support a Boon for Benefits?

Julie Appleby of Kaiser Health News

President Obama's pronouncement last week in favor of same-sex marriage has no legal effect on employers’ decisions on whether to offer benefits to workers’ domestic partners, but some advocates believe it could reinforce a decade-long trend toward coverage. Last year, 52 percent of all employers offered domestic partner health benefits, with the percentage varying widely by region and industry, according to a nationally representative sample of about 3,000 employers surveyed by benefit consultant Mercer.  That’s up from 31 percent in 2010.

Girl Transitions Without Medical Intervention
May 13 2012 11:57 AM ET

Girl Transitions Without Medical Intervention

Diane Anderson-Minshall

Many trans girls say they always felt like a girl trapped inside a boy's body, and that was certainly the case for Ryan McKenna. But unlike her trans peers, McKenna didn't need hormones or top surgery to transition. Her own biology did that for  her. According to Yahoo! News, McKenna is actually intersex and has a hormonal imbalance that caused her to began developing breasts and a curvy figure at the same time as her teenage girlfriends.

Gay Man Fights Back Against Conversion Therapy in Portland
May 13 2012 11:40 AM ET

Gay Man Fights Conversion Therapy in Portland

Diane Anderson-Minshall

Just as California legislators begin debating a bill that would ban the use of “ex-gay” conversion therapy on children (and make adults sign a waiver of informed consent if they seek it themselves), the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Beth Allen law firm are going after a Portland, Ore., psychiatrist using coversion therapy. The SPLC also launched an online tool that informs users of conversion therapists near them and offers people a safe place to share their stories about this unethical therapy.

FDA Advisers Endorse Truvada for HIV Prevention
May 11 2012 3:29 PM ET

FDA Advisers Endorse Truvada for HIV Prevention

Trudy Ring

It could soon be the first drug used in prevention.

Iowa Man Alleges Discrimination at Hospital
May 09 2012 2:37 PM ET

Iowa Man Alleges Discrimination at Hospital

Diane Anderson-Minshall

For the second time in recent weeks, a transgender man in Iowa has has alleged that the state's medical profession either discriminates or doesn't know how to deal with transgender patients.

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