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Open City: London, 1500-1700 at The Folger
The exhibit “Open City: London, 1500-1700” documents London’s shift from being simply the capital of England to the heart of a world empire, which altered...
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Catholic Church’s Peter Kearney spews bile about Scotland’s pending acceptance of same-sex marriage
“e would believe that same-sex relationships are profoundly harmful both physically, biologically, mentally, emotionally and I have to say spiritually to those involved. No society...
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Bombay Bicycle Club at Ram’s Head and 9:30 Club
Jack Steadman, Jamie MacColl, Suren de Saram and Ed Nash comprise the British indie-rock quartet Bombay Bicycle Club, named in reference to an Indian restaurant...
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Studying Sex Workers
Delegates to AIDS 2012 were given the opportunity to listen to the latest research on sex workers, their behaviors, and risk of acquiring HIV. Among...
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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos gives $2.5 million to gay marriage effort in Washington state
According to a press release from Washington United for Marriage, $2.5 million dollars has been donated toward the fight for marriage equality by the head...
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Court Declares Civil Unions Equal to Marriage
Massachusetts’s highest court declared civil unions to be the “equivalent of marriage” in a ruling Thursday that was hailed by marriage-equality advocates. The unanimous declaration...
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Florida’s Lt. Governor apologizes for lesbian stereotype
Florida’s Lieutenant Governor, Jennifer Carroll, has issued an apology for an earlier remark she made about women who engage in lesbian relationships. GLAAD reposted a fax...
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Acknowledging, Treating HIV Among MSM Essential to Success
In keeping with the overall theme of AIDS 2012, Thursday morning’s plenary session focused on “turning the tide” of HIV among vulnerable popularions, including men...
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Scotland’s move to legalize same-sex marriage gets (mostly) positive reaction
A sampling of the reaction to the Scottish government’s decision to introduce a same-sex marriage bill. Hazel Marzetti, NUS Scotland: “Thousands of students contacted the...
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Audacia Ray posts Red Umbrella protest video
At yesterday’s AIDS 2012 panel “The U.S. Congress and the Global AIDS Epidemic,” chaired by Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), protesters holding red umbrellas interrupted the...
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Global Forum on MSM & HIV releases report of rejected AIDS 2012 abstracts
Today, the Global Forum on MSM & HIV released a new report, “Missing Voices from the Field,” a collection of “more than 100 abstracts on...
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Twitter, Google Talk suffer massive outages
Both Twitter and Google Talk are having a spot of trouble today. Starting with the Twittering Blue Bird, USA Today’s Technology live has been following...
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Turning the Tide in the District
Doctors, researchers and HIV/AIDS experts from Washington presented information about the epidemic within the D.C. to AIDS 2012 delegates yesterday, July 25, explaining how the...
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AIDS 2012’s Call to Action Aims for “AIDS-Free Generation”
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and leading HIV/AIDS experts have declared war on HIV and AIDS. Speaking to thousands of delegates attending the XIX...
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Dozens of locals counter the tiny AIDS 2012 Westboro Baptist appearance [video]
Wednesday, members of the notoriously anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church – followers of the Rev. Fred Phelps – arrived at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center...
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Scotland to introduce Gay Marriage bill
“We are committed to a Scotland that is fair and equal and that is why we intend to proceed with plans to allow same-sex marriage...
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Caution and Optimism
Having worked for many years to address the AIDS epidemic, especially among gay and bisexual men, I find it enormously inspiring to see thousands of...
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Pro Homo
I've been a professional homosexual since 1993. I don't mean that I was an escort, although that probably would have paid better than my job...
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Keeping Up with AIDS 2012
Though the official start for the XIX International AIDS Conference – marking the conference's return to the U.S. after a 22-year absence due to the...
