Quickies: Bi-Montly HIV Treatment, HERO Fallout, No Such Thing as Straight Women?
Bi-Monthly HIV Injection as Good as Pills – “A long-acting two-drug injection given once every eight weeks worked as well as three daily pills in suppressing HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, according to a clinical trial backed by Johnson & Johnson and GlaxoSmithKline.” This is great news for people …
Quickies: LGBTQ School-to-Prison Pipeline, “Once Upon a Time” Gets Gay, London’s Female Drag Queens
“Helping Queer Youth Affected by the School-to-Prison Pipeline” – “In just over a decade, the school-to-prison pipeline has transformed from an unknown education issue into a national movement… Today, LGBT youth make up only 6 percent of the general population but represent 15 percent of people currently in juvenile detention.” …
Quickies: Discriminatory State Laws, TWoC White House Briefing, Malta Protects Intersex Babies
Amanda Marcotte Asks Liberals to Stop Harassing Bigots – Marcotte admonishes those taking part in the ongoing harassment campaign that has forced a IN pizza shop to close its doors after publicly stating that it would not cater for same-sex weddings. The harassment has earned them martyr status, and they are …
Quickies: Gay Birds, Gay Bears, Gay Priests, Gay Marriage
Male-Male Flamingo Pair Adopt Abandoned Chick – A pair of gay Chilean Flamingos in the Edinburgh zoo took over care of an egg after its parents fumbled it out of the nest and subsequently abandoned it. The chick has since hatched and is doing well in the care of its adoptive fathers. Transgender …
QUICKIES 08/19/2013
In a win for intersex people, Germany will begin allowing parents to register their children as male, female or ”>blank. Queereka’s Laurelai’s hashtag, #fuckcispeople has been blowing up on twitter for the past several days, with mixed reactions. Laurelai reflects on the hashtag on her own blog. ”Of COURSE there …
Intersex Man, 66, Suffers Bigotry by the Media
I got a link today to an article from the South China Morning Post about an intersex man. The story is interesting, but the article itself is horrible. They are completely ignorant of intersex people, and as an extension, gender non-conforming people in general. The title goes: “Man, 66, goes to …
Why Gender Differences Don’t Matter (and Other Myths)
A few days ago, Harriet Hall wrote a post on Science-Based Medicine titled “Gender Differences and Why They Don’t Matter So Much.” The article left a bad taste in my mouth for a number of reasons. Aside from what I feel is a gross misrepresentation of various criticisms of Michael …
Quickies: 14/12/2012
Uruguay to become the 12th nation so far to pass a marriage equality law, after becoming the first Latin American country to legalise abortion earlier this year and considering regulating marijuana sales. Progressive! Meanwhile, in the U.S., here are some infographics depicting regional variations to support for marriage equality. Keeping …