Kenya: Jeffrey Walimbwa on Improving HIV Services for Key Populations

As the Program Manager at ISHTAR MSM—a community-based organization in Nairobi, Kenya that advances sexual health rights of men who have sex with men (MSM)—Jeffrey Walimbwa advocates for the rights of marginalized groups to access health care, including diagnosis, care and treatment for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

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Australia: Same-sex marriage survey damaging to LGBTI people's mental health, research finds

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Researchers carried out an online survey during the marriage-law vote with over 1,300 respondents. Those who came across negative media messages more than once a day had distress levels 58 per cent higher than those exposed once a week. Same-sex-attracted people who believed those close to them voted yes reported less-severe symptoms

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US: Ellen Page calls out powerful bigots on The Late Show

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On Thursday’s Late Show to promote her new Netflix series The Umbrella Academy, an adaptation of Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá’s Dark Horse Comics series about a family of grown-up child superheroes, Ellen Page, instead, used her network airtime to fight some real-world evils.

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US: After ‘Empire’ actor’s alleged assault, his upset fans are coming to the aid of NC college

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The campaign to save North Carolina’s Bennett College has drawn some high-profile supporters, including Jussie Smollett, the “Empire” actor who this week reported he was attacked in Chicago by two masked men who uttered racial and homophobic slurs.