Lou Chibbaro Jr.
LGBTQ Groups Seek Safeguards Against COVID-19 Discrimination
At least 170 national, state, and local LGBTQ and allied organizations on April 21 released a joint open letter to health care and public policy leaders calling for measures to prohibit discrimination in the treatment and prevention of the novel [...]
Coronavirus Risk Not Significantly Greater for Those With 'Well-Controlled' HIV
The risk of people with HIV who are receiving standard of care treatment to control their HIV is not significantly greater than the general public for contracting or becoming seriously ill from the Coronavirus, according to the Chief Medical Officer [...]
Fauci to Congress: Help Us Implement Plan to End HIV
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told an audience of mostly legislative aides to members of Congress at a Dec. 5 congressional briefing on Capitol Hill that scientific advances have made it [...]
AIDS Quilt moving to San Francisco
The Atlanta-based Names Project Foundation, which has served as the custodian of the massive AIDS Memorial Quilt since 1987, is turning over that task to the San Francisco-based National AIDS Memorial, officials with both organizations announced at [...]
FBI Report Shows Increase in Anti-LGBT Hate Crimes
The number of hate crime incidents targeting gays, lesbians and bisexuals in the U.S. in 2018 increased by nearly 6 percent over the previous year and the number of anti-transgender hate crime incidents increased by 41 percent during that same [...]
Pope Francis Meets With Pro-LGBTQ Priest
A decision by Pope Francis to host a private meeting at the Vatican on Monday with an American Catholic priest who has been an outspoken advocate for the church to embrace LGBT Catholics is being viewed as yet another signal that Francis may be [...]
Trans March on DC Called 'First Major Step' in Visibility Campaign
Organizers and observers said between 1,500 and 3,000 people turned out on Saturday for the first-ever National Transgender Visibility March on Washington in which scores of participants held signs proudly declaring their status as transgender or [...]
Lawsuit Prompts Decision to Repeal NYC Conversion Therapy Ban
Corey Johnson, the openly gay Speaker of the New York City Council, introduced a bill on Thursday to repeal a law the Council passed in 2017 that prohibits mental health professionals from performing so-called conversion therapy on both adults and [...]
LGBT Advocates Raise Alarm Over 'Facial Recognition' Technology
LGBT people, especially transgender people, could be subjected to discrimination, harassment, and identity theft if careful government controls are not placed on rapidly developing and widely used facial recognition technology, according to the [...]
Two Marches Set to Highlight New York City's Pride Events
Two separate marches to commemorate the 50th anniversary of New York's Stonewall riots that are credited with starting the modern LGBT rights movement are expected to draw more than four million people to the streets of Manhattan on June 30 as [...]
Congressional Black Caucus Probes Crisis of Black Youth Suicide
The Congressional Black Caucus last week announced it has created an emergency Task Force on Black Youth Suicide and Mental Health that will address what it calls a growing problem of suicide and access to mental health care among black youth, [...]
LGBT People Urged to Be Counted in 2020 U.S. Census
The D.C.-based National LGBTQ Task Force was part of a coalition of more than 15 national civil rights and progressive advocacy groups that launched a campaign last week to encourage members of marginalized communities to make sure they are counted [...]