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Blogging for Mental Health with Lesbian Web

Posted on 21 Jul 2024 in Health

Sue, writing at Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents, marks Mental Health Awareness Month by discussing her battle with anxiety and how some agencies including those that should have been looking after her interests used her mental health disability against her. She writes "If it happened to this middle-aged, middle-class white cisgender woman? Don’t kid yourself that you are protected. I am not the first to endure these violent acts. I won’t be the last. It isn’t that I thought was immune from bad behavior, more so that I overestimated my innate capacity to deflect.

Elton John Issues Stonewall Anniversary Wish

Posted on 28 Jun 2024 in Health

The Elton John AIDS Foundation wrote to its supporters and contacts on the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, fifty five years ago. " The Stonewall Riots of 1969 marked a significant turning point in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights, when the community refused to to

Professionals Unite Against PseudoTherapy

Posted on 13 Jun 2024 in Health

Philadelphia Gay News reports that five professional associations regulating licensed therapy and health practitioners in the state have formally adopted policies that oppose the use of conversion therapies, which the paper notes are "pseudoscientific practice of attempting to ch

Terrence Higgins Trust Wins Big at Marathon

Posted on 26 May 2024 in Health

The Terrence Higgins Trust, the UK's largest HIV service organisation and rooted in the LGBTQIA and African-Caribbean communities, reports that they had a fantastic time at the recent London Marathon. A press release from the charity reveals more details: "Our

Survey of Students to Benefit Freshers - DIVA

Posted on 22 May 2024 in Health

DIVA Magazine, the European wide journal for lesbian, queer and bisexual women, is running a survey ready for publication ahead of the next academic year in September. They say "For many LGBTQIA people, starting university can be an exciting time for self-expression and discover

May

Gym Chain Stands Form Against Threats

US based low cost gym chain Planet Fitness has been urged to remain firm despite being targetted by bomb threats from deranged far right transphobes. The extremists began to targe

May

Ban on Chemical Will Enhance LGBT+ Health

Live Science online magazine reports that the United States is to join the European Union in banning the chemical formaldehyde from hair straighteners. There is a

Apr

Right Wing Paper in Bizarre Tirade - Again!

Swivel eyed right wing newspaper The Daily Telegraph, which was once a respected fact based newspaper, but is increasingly involving itself in what it sees as "cultural warfare" ag

Apr

Puberty Blockers Blow for Trans Youth

Lots of LGBTQIA+ people, as well as those from other minorities, are often failed by the NHS, an increasing body of evidence suggests. Now, in what newswire Pink News says is a "n

Apr

NHS Holds Stop Smoking Day

Our colleagues in the grassroots radio sector, over at Chippenham Hospital Radio in Wiltshire, report that NHS No Smoking Day was on Wednesday March 13th. Whilst