San Diego Trans Pride event educates, empowers, entertains

San Diego’s fourth annual Trans Pride, which took place July 14, re-affirmed the local transgender community’s growing self-confidence and continuing advocacy work. Sean Redmond of the Stonewall Citizen’s Patrol, who provided security for the event, estimated attendance at over 550 people. Organizing committee Chair Veronica Zerrer of Neutral Corner attributes a big part of the…

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32 million Americans would lose insurance under the latest Senate bill, CBO projects

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The bill Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), intends to bring up to the Senate next week would result in 32 million fewer Americans having health coverage, health insurance premiums doubling and the insurance market destabilizing over the next 10 years according to a report the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) published Wednesday….

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UNAIDS announces 19.5 million people on life-saving treatment and AIDS-related deaths halved since 2005

GENEVA/PARIS —UNAIDS has released a new report showing that for the first time the scales have tipped: more than half of all people living with HIV (53%) now have access to HIV treatment and AIDS-related deaths have almost halved since 2005. In 2016, 19.5 million of the 36.7 million people living with HIV had access…

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Rhode Island governor signs bill into law protecting LGBTQ youth from conversion therapy

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Wednesday, Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo signed into law House Bill (HB) 5277 — a measure protecting LGBTQ youth in the state from the harmful and discredited practice of so-called “conversion therapy.” Rhode Island is now the eleventh jurisdiction — and the fourth state so far this year — to enact these…

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Senate fails to pass TrumpCare bill

WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senators Moran and Lee have refused to vote on the so-called Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), erasing the Republican party’s hope of gaining 50 votes in favor, and effectively ending the third attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). If passed, the bill would have destabilized the insurance market, gutted Medicaid spending, defunded Planned…

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