By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer President Trump's proposed "American Budget", proposes domestic HIV prevention funding to be cut $34.6 million while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Global AIDS Program should be slashed by as much as $58 million. The draconian Trump 'American Budget' further would go after funding for the CDC’s overall discretionary [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer Plans for the first ever LGBTQ PRIDE Parade were shattered after local leaders in the town of Starkville, Mississippi, denied a permit to LGBTQ support group Starkville Pride to hold what would have been the historic first ever gay pride parade in the town with a population of 26,000. Needless [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicts 13 Russians for U.S. Election Meddling. The U.S. Grand Jury handed down the indictments on the Russian Internet agency and more than a dozen Russians who interfered in the US election campaign from 2014 through 2016 in a multi-pronged well planned effort with the aim [...]
By: Jack MacNamara, Staff Writer LGBT Politics — Following the disgraceful GOP legislature voting to defund the University of Tennessee LGBT Center, Alumni and LGBT groups step up to fund the university's diversity and Inclusion office. The Tennessee GOP legislature voted to defund the University of Tennessee's Office of Diversity and Inclusion which would have [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer After major backlash for refusing to cover drugs used to prevent HIV/AIDS, PrEP, the Florida-based grocery chain Publix released a series of tweets on Tuesday Feb. 6 stating that the company has decided to add the coverage of PrEP for its 1,169 employees should they request it. Known for not [...]