Taiwan’s Judicial Yuan Secretary-General publicly announced today that the passage of anti-equality referendums cannot override the Constitutional Court’s 2017 ruling on same-sex marriage.

Christina Dideriksen

November 30, 2018

World of Politics

Chile: President Signs Bill Allowing Trans People to Update Birth Certificates, Passports

Christina Dideriksen

November 30, 2018

World of Politics

Chile’s groundbreaking transgender rights bill was finally signed into law on Wednesday after a nearly five-year battle.

Christina Dideriksen

November 30, 2018

HIV Health and Wellness

The unexpected effects of the HIV prevention pill

Christina Dideriksen

November 30, 2018

HIV Health and Wellness

Even gay publications have called the rise in other STIs PrEP’s “nasty downside”, while researchers have lamented a “failure” in safer sex messaging.

What if this common narrative isn’t quite right?

Christina Dideriksen

November 30, 2018

HIV Health and Wellness

Engaging men in HIV treatment and prevention

Christina Dideriksen

November 30, 2018

HIV Health and Wellness

Much has been accomplished over the past two decades in global HIV treatment and prevention. Although in need of renewed emphasis, the worldwide scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has gone beyond what many imagined possible.

Christina Dideriksen

November 30, 2018

Sports and Culture

“Man Made,” a Film About Transgender Bodybuilders, Upends the Traditional Documentary Gaze

Christina Dideriksen

November 30, 2018

Sports and Culture

The film shows how exhibiting one’s strength, after years of privately embodied pain, can be freeing—even euphoric. Yet it resists the urge to craft stories of simple, complete transformation.

Christina Dideriksen

November 30, 2018

Let the Courts Decide

US: Supreme Court poised to drastically reverse LGBTQ equality

Christina Dideriksen

November 30, 2018

Let the Courts Decide

The cases span a variety of different issues, including employment, education, military service, and public discrimination.

Christina Dideriksen

November 30, 2018

HIV Health and Wellness

AIDS: homophobic and moralistic images of 1980s still haunt our view of HIV – that must change

Christina Dideriksen

November 30, 2018

HIV Health and Wellness

If you remember the 1980s, you will likely summon up the image of the Grim Reaper or a black tombstone when asked to think about AIDS. Those images, embedded in our collective memory by two iconic Australian and British public health campaigns of that decade, reveal how AIDS has been both a medical and a cultural epidemic since it was first clinically observed in the US in 1981.

Christina Dideriksen

November 30, 2018

Sports and Culture

Taiwan: ‘Gay Netflix’ heads abroad

Christina Dideriksen

November 30, 2018

Sports and Culture

Premiering last month, Taiwan-based LGBTQ movie platform GagaOOLala’s original ‘Queer Asia’ series explores homosexuality in Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam

Christina Dideriksen

November 30, 2018

On the March

UK rejection of gay asylum claims rises to four out of five

Christina Dideriksen

November 30, 2018

On the March

Only 22 percent of asylum claims from LGBT+ people were approved in 2017

Christina Dideriksen

November 29, 2018

Politics of Union, Winds of Change

Croatia: LGBT Rights Five Years after Referendum

Christina Dideriksen

November 29, 2018

Politics of Union, Winds of Change

Five years after a referendum effectively banned gay marriage in Croatia, conservatives behind the vote will gather in a 5-star Zagreb hotel to mark the anniversary. Gay couples, however, have moved on to a new fight – for the right to foster or adopt children.