New-York Historical Society to present exhibition ‘AIDS in New York: The First Five Years’ June 7 – Sept. 15

NEW YORK — The early history of the AIDS epidemic in New York City—from the first rumors in 1981 of a “gay plague” through the ensuing period of intense activism, clinical research, and political struggle—will be the subject of a major new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society, AIDS in New York: The First Five…

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Recovering Queen Elizabeth misses Commonwealth Day service

LONDON (CNN) — Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will miss a service celebrating the Commonwealth Monday, as she continues to recover from an illness that left her hospitalized last week, Buckingham Palace announced in a statement. The 86-year-old monarch was admitted to a London hospital on March 3 with symptoms of gastroenteritis, an inflammation of the…

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US State Department issues new guidelines for LGBT travelers

With the departure of one of the U.S. State Department’s most vocally pro-gay advocates in its history, Hillary Rodham Clinton would be pleased to learn the agency has just launched a new Web site for gay travelers at http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/lgbt/lgbt_5887.html. The site is devoted to making travel as easy and as incident free for the LGBT community….

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