This earthly world recently lost a trail blazing social justice warrior. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a long time trans activist who was known as “mama” to many, was involved in LGBTQ activism since her participation in the Stonewall Uprising in 1969. She died on Oct. 13 at the age of 78 surrounded by loved ones in […]
Cardi B encouraged fans to take PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis), a medication to prevent HIV risk from sex and injections, saying it isn’t just for gay men. “I understand where the stigma came from and everything. HIV is really, like, high in the gay community. But why you think these bitches don’t be having that shit?” […]
Women can experience exercise-induced orgasm (EIO) and exercise-induced arousal (EIA) during exercise or physical activities that are vigorous, repetitive, or demanding of core abdominal muscles, usually apart from sexual situations and without direct genital stimulation. In a qualitative study based on interviews with 21 adult women, researchers aimed to understand women’s lived experiences with EIO/EIA. […]
Conceiving of gender and sex as binary concepts is a stubborn means of categorization that has long limited human understanding of important aspects of identity and experience. In most cultures humans become binary subjects at birth in two major ways: 1) we are corralled into either male or female sexed body designations based on anatomical […]
An investigation by NBC news reveals a 50-year pattern of covering up child abuse by pastors, youth leaders, and church volunteers in the Assemblies of God, the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination. Aspects of the church’s theology, which emphasizes both forgiveness and divine “anointment” of pastors gifted with charismatic powers, have created an environment of reluctance […]
The Hisba Board (religious police) in Kano, a mostly Muslim region in Northern Nigeria, have arrested 25 people attending the wedding of two men, accusing them of “organising same sex marriage.” The situation for LGBT people in Muslim countries continues to deteriorate, as we also see with new anti-LGBT legislation proposed by the government even […]
A recently published study by researchers affiliated with the Kinsey Institute examined the perceptions of 3,895 single American adults about their sex education in school. Over 40% believe that better sex education would have helped them gain more sexual self-confidence and have healthier romantic relationships. The majority said their sex education mainly focused on reproductive […]
The Sheriff’s Department in Waco, Texas, arrested three members of the Oklahoma Predators Prevention Group after a confrontation they organized that caused a local man to be injured. This group mimics police tactics by posting fictitious profiles of underage girls and luring their victims into explicit conversations and an arranged meeting, which the group monetizes […]
The federal appeals court for the 2nd circuit overturned a trial court decision to rule that prison inmates “have no clearly established rights to be treated by gender-dysphoria specialists or to receive specific treatments for gender dysphoria.” The case concerned a biologically male inmate serving a 75 year sentence for murder in Connecticut, who sought […]
Although the human papillomavirus (HPV) is not exclusively transmitted through sexual contact, it is the most common transmission method for the virus. A study has found that the introduction of the HPV vaccine has been highly effective in protecting young women from the cervical cancer causing virus. A surprising finding is that this protection seems […]
