by Beth Holmes | Dec 13, 2021 | Civil Rights, Gay and Lesbian, Gender, Health, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, LGBTQIA+ Youth, News, Politics, Power LGBT, Queer Community, Religion, Science, Sexuality, Transgender
Conversion therapy without full consent has been banned in Canada, after a unanimous vote in the House of Commons. So called ‘conversion therapy’ is a suite of practices meant to “cure” someone of same-sex attraction or gender nonconformity. Worldwide,...
by Beth Holmes | Dec 6, 2021 | Civil Rights, Gay and Lesbian, Gender, Health, Human Rights, International, Intersex, LGBT community, News, Power LGBT, Queer Community, Science, Transgender
Fertility treatment, as part of state-fund medical care, is considered a right in Spain. And for the first time, that right has been extended to lesbians, transgender, and nonbinary people. Most of the European Union has legalized same-sex marriages, but laws...
by Beth Holmes | Oct 29, 2021 | Featured, Health, Homophobia, International, News, Power LGBT, Science
Nitzan Horowitz was thrilled to donate blood on Tuesday, October 26th. It’s the first time he’s ever been able to, because until this week, Israel, like many countries, banned gay men from donating blood. Nitzan Horowitz is also, coincidentally enough, Israel’s Health...
by Beth Holmes | Jul 9, 2021 | Feminism, Health, Human Rights, Politics, Racism, Science, Women's Rights
Reparations are in the works for California’s surviving victims of eugenics. Up to $25,000 each for approximately 600 of the thousands of people sterilized in state hospitals and prisons, some of them only children. It would be nice to report that these...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 26, 2021 | Civil Rights, Equality, Gay and Lesbian, Homophobia, Human Rights, Science
On June 23, 2021, the Bank of England will celebrate the 109th birthday of Alan Turing, the English mathematician, by putting his face on the new £50 note. Turing’s codebreaking skills were instrumental to the victory of WWII and to the early days of compute...
by admin | Oct 22, 2015 | Health, News, Science
Tuck C. Ngun, PhD, is a post-doctorate researcher at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the first author on a paper entitled “A novel predictive model of sexual orientation using epigenetic markers.” So what does that...
