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How HIV/AIDS got its name − the words Americans used were steeped in science, stigma, and religious language

How people talked about and named the AIDS crisis shaped how it was viewed and either fostered or countered a culture of stigma, writes historian Anthony Petro.

Estrella de 'Hamilton' Javier Muñoz Es un Héroe Caritativo

Munoz esta utilizando sus numerosas identidades -- gay, Latino, VIH, sobreviviente de cancer, artista -- para crear su mejor trabajo hasta la fecha. 

The Male Pap Smear

In a recent study in The New England Journal of Medicine, gay and bisexual men were found to have a significantly higher risk for developing anal cancer, over thirty-five times greater than the general population. HIV-positive men were estimated to be eighty times more likely to get it.

What Gay, Bisexual Men Need to Know About Prostate Cancer

We have specific questions, namely about sex, that we need answered.

Study: Gay, Bi Men Have Higher Skin Cancer Rates Than Straight Men

The largest study ever conducted about LGB people and skin cancer uncovers troubling results.

STUDY: Who's Risking Skin Cancer for a Tan?

The new findings from UCSF also reveal lesbians and bisexual women are avoiding tanning beds far more than straight women.

This gay grandpa was fined $16k for protesting trans youth suicides, and he would 'do it again'

James Lantz tells The Advocate about his arrest for gluing his hand to a Capitol railing while protesting trans youth suicides.

This Cancer Is Killing Men. Where’s the Research?

There's a conspicuous silence surrounding prostate cancer.

Who's Most Likely to Get Skin Cancer? Gay & Bi Men, That's Who

A new study indicates that gay and bisexual men are twice as likely as straight men to get skin cancer. The culprit? Indoor tanning.

Pennsylvania fines gay grandpa with stage 4 cancer $16k for protesting trans youth suicide

James Lantz glued his hand to a railing inside the Vermont Senate after lawmakers refused to meet with him about trans youth suicides.

Gays smoking and the Jennings effect

In the wake of Peter Jennings' death from lung cancer, the quit-smoking program at New York's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center has had a dramatic increase in telephone calls. Can your quitting be an act of pro-gay activism?

The Digital Rectal Exam

A colonoscopy is recommended for all men over the age of fifty -- or earlier (age forty) for high- risk patients like African-Americans or men with a family history of prostate or colon cancer. Gay men should have a rectal exam beginning at age forty.

Why Gay Men Should Wear Pink Ribbons

For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, one group is urging all LGBT people to join the fight for a cure.