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Remembering Terry Higgins on His Eightieth

Posted on 28 Oct 2025 in Health

The HIV charity Terrence Higgins Trust has been in touch with its supporters ahead of World AIDS Day on Monday December 1st. THT was active in Bristol between the years 2000 and 2020 and incorporated the Aled Richard Trust, which was the first HIV and AIDS service provider in Bristol, having opened on November 5th 1985. Aled Richard was the first high profile person to die from an AIDS related illness in Bristol and Terry Higgins one of the first high profile people on the gay scene to die in London. He had been a DJ at the famous Heaven

Beware of Splitting the LGBTQ+ Movement

Posted on 15 Oct 2025 in Health

Faefyx Collington writing for the top Queer News-site, LGBTQ Nation, has firm words for that small minority of gay men and women who are trying to distance our movement from trans people. Collington writes "As trans rights issues have entered the mainstream discourse, there’s been a growing voca

Music Underpins Texas LGBT+ Health Fundraiser

Posted on 14 Oct 2025 in Health

Avenue 360 is a HIV and LGBTQIA+ friendly, women friendly sexual health project based in Houston, Texas. The organisation is not bowing in the face of Republican measures targetting LGBT+ health care, however. They are announcing a great night of musical entertainment on Friday Novembe

Beating Loneliness within the Gay Male Scene

Posted on 8 Jul 2025 in Health

Court Vox, the proprietor of gay and bi men's health organisation The Body Vox, appears in Out Magazine this month, as well as the podcast Sex Talk Cafe. Court writes about the erotic brotherhood of gay men as being a cure for loneliness in a fractured and alie

Interested in Making an Impact on Services?

Posted on 23 Jun 2025 in Health

The Diversity Trust is leading a workshop for the NHS to find out how services can better accommodate the needs of minority groups, including LGBTQIA+ people. Here is the information:

Jun

Aus Lifts AIDS Era Bar on GBT Male Bloods

The long standing LGBTQIA Newspaper in Sydney reports that the organisation that controls stocks of blood and blood plasma donations in Australia, has announced changes to rules around donation.

Jun

Kiss FM and Channel Four Partner over Bodyism

Media website RCS Radio Today reports that the Channel Four network is to join forces with KISSFMs network of dance music themed radio stations to promote body acc

Jun

Cautious Optimism at Final Cure for HIV

LGBTQ Nation and the Peter Tatchell Foundation are both reporting this week that researchers have used technology and techniques developed in the fight against Cov

May

Kiss FM and Channel 4 Unite Against Bullies

Kiss FM is running a series of commercials and promotions over the course of May to mark its status of Mental Health Awareness Month. In one of them, the breakfa

May

"Mean Spirited" Attack on Medicaid, Abortion

Radical magazine Mother Jones is watching the breakneck speed with which Donald Trump's medical bill is passing through the US House of Representatives. The magazine notes "Trump'