Gay Couple Shows The World That True Love Stories Can Still Happen
By: Mike Givens/TRT Assistant Editor— Derrick Young Jr., 25, and Jonathan Allen, 28, have a fairy tale love story that took the internet by storm…
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We Aren’t Fully Out of the Closet Just Yet: Intimate Partner Violence
The effects of Intimate Partner Violence; and the silence around it By: Wyatt O’Brian Evans*— I’m really proud of my best bud “Jase,” whom I’ve…
CDC: Half of Black Gay Men Will Become HIV Positive
By: Eric Brus*— CDC Projects that Half of U.S. Black Gay Men Will Be Diagnosed with HIV During Their Lifetime If current HIV diagnoses rates…
Getting to Zero Coalition Determines Strategy to Reduce HIV Diagnoses
By: Luke Sherman/TRT Contributor— Advocacy organizations, public health officials, and concerned community members came together for the first time in late February to discuss the…
Transgender Vets: Higher Rates of Mental & Medical Health Issues; National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Feb. 7 is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day By: Eric Brus* In recent years, many research studies have identified significant health disparities―including very high rates…
Rates of HIV Falling: Gay Men Still More Vulnerable Than Most
By: Eric Brus*— The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that annual HIV diagnoses fell 19% in the U.S. from 2005 to…
Getting to Zero: The Multi-Faceted Solution to Beating New HIV/AIDS Infections
By: Al Gentile/TRT Reporter— Research, prevention, and treatments of HIV and AIDS has, in the last decade, made the disease anything but a death sentence….
NCLR, HRC, and CHLP Launch Campaign to Raise Awareness of HIV Criminalization Laws
WASHINGTON—Today, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), and the Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP) launched a new…
The National HIV/AIDS Strategy: Updated to 2020
Today, President Obama signed an Executive Order releasing the National HIV/AIDS Strategy: Updated to 2020, detailing principles and priorities to guide our collective national work to address…
Rates of HIV Diagnoses in U.S. stable, but Gay Men Still Have High Rates of Infection
By: Eric Brus*— Late last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released their new surveillance report, Diagnoses of HIV infection in the United…
Study: Increase in HIV for Black Gay Men; Orgs. Work to Combat Infection
By: Clara Lefton/TRT Reporter— In February, The American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) released a new study entitled “HIV and the Black Community: Do #Black(GAY)lives…
Report: Impact of HIV on Black Gay Men is ‘Greatest’ Failure of US Response to AIDS
By: Eric Brus*— “Our nation’s inability to effectively address HIV infections among Black gay men . . . is one of the greatest failures of…
Study: Higher Rates of HIV Among Black Gay Men Expected to Continue for Decades
By: Eric Brus*— Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) currently account for about two-thirds of all new HIV infections in…
Gay Men Say that HIV is a Top Health Issue, but Few Get Tested Regularly
By: Eric Brus*— More than half (52%) of U.S. men who identify as gay or bisexual consider HIV/AIDS to be the most important health issue…
National Group Launches new PrEP Initiative Aimed at Young Gay Men of Color
Resources from the 2014 International AIDS Conference By: Eric Brus*— The National Minority AIDS Council recently announced its new PrEPare for Life online resource page. The…
National Report Documents Hate Violence Against LGBTQ and HIV Communities
By: Eric Brus*— High levels of hate violence against LGBTQ and HIV-affected communities continued last year, according to the new report, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender,…
AIDS Walk 2014: Coco Alinsug and Team Fenway at Work
Courtesy of AIDS Action Committee Coco Alinsug is a very happy AIDS Walk team captain. “Team Fenway has over 110 Fenway Health staff and friends…
Will Black Gay & Bisexual Men use Daily Drug to Prevent HIV Infection?
By: Eric Brus*— Last month, a demonstration study was launched to determine whether black gay and bisexual men would benefit from the use of drugs…
LGBT Leaders Call on Community to Recommit to Fight Against AIDS
By: Eric Brus*— Last month, the leaders of 35 LGBT and HIV/AIDS organizations issued a joint letter committing themselves and their organizations to re-engaging the…