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Gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry in California, the state Supreme Court said today in a historic ruling that could be repudiated by the voters in November.
In a 4-3 decision, the justices said the state’s ban on same-sex marriage violates the “fundamental constitutional right to form a [...]
CA Same-Sex Marriage Ruled Constitutional
AIDS group accuses airport guard of humiliation
Members of a Prince George HIV-AIDS support group say they were humiliated when airport security deemed them health risks as they waited to board a plane at the municipal airport last week.
The group of 10, all members or employees of Positive Living North, were on their way to a conference in Vancouver on March 28 [...]
Two Families Share Stories of Lost Ones Due to AIDS
In Angie Apodaca’s home, the presence of her son, Eric Apodaca, can still be felt.
Eric’s voice is still recorded on her answering machine. After five years since his death, Angie cannot erase her son’s voice.
Eric died at the age of 37 after losing the battle against AIDS.
In his teenage years, Eric confessed to his parents [...]
Trial to Proceed In Transwoman Discrimination Suit
(Houston, Texas) The District Court for the Southern District of Texas on Friday denied motions for summary judgment from both sides in the case of a transgender woman who found her job offer from a Houston medical clinic withdrawn after a background check disclosed her sex as male.
Both Lambda Legal, representing 27-year-old Izza Lopez, and [...]
AIDS Advocates in New York Fight Racial and Economic Disparities
Somewhere in the decades since gay, white men first rallied to fight the disease that had plagued their community, African-American men and women found themselves in the midst of a sneak attack.
HIV, though eventually found in people as varied as hemophilic children to affluent sports stars, is not altogether colorblind. But it’s not a secret [...]
HIV-positive women not likely to reveal condition
HIV-positive women often do not reveal their diagnosis to current or possible sexual partners, to close friends, or to potential employers because of the stigma attached to the disease, according to a survey released Monday.
“Despite 25 years of progress in diagnosing and treating the disease, one in five Americans would not be comfortable with having [...]
Kennedy Drops Transgendered From Senate ENDA
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is jumping into the middle of an uproar within the gay community whose causes he has long championed.
The Massachusetts Democrat is leading a push in the Senate for a federal ban on job bias against gays, lesbians and bisexuals - but not transsexuals, cross-dressers and others whose outward appearance doesn’t match [...]
When Girls Will Be Boys
It was late on a rainy fall day, and a college freshman named Rey was showing me the new tattoo on his arm. It commemorated his 500-mile hike through Europe the previous summer, which happened also to be, he said, the last time he was happy. We sat together for a while in his room [...]
SJSU suspends blood drives, citing FDA ban on donations by gay men
In a move believed to be the first by a college campus in the nation, San Jose State University President Don Kassing has suspended all campus blood drives because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration bars any man who has had sex with another man from donating blood. “The FDA’s lifetime blood donor deferral affecting [...]