Day: November 22, 2016
French HIV-prevention campaign for gay men heads to court to stop censorship
The French Socialist health minister is fighting what she calls censorship.
Transgender Russian Woman Faces Male Prison Sentence For Theft
Albina Matyunina was convicted for trying to steal $28 before her transition.
New book a boon to LGBTQ substance abuse counsellors
When it comes to treating LGBT substance abuse know this: we are the same but different from our straight counterparts. While treatment and intervention for alcoholism and drug addiction in lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans patients often mirrors that offered to the general population, if it often does not acknowledge the complexity of the experiences, emotions and challenges faced by LGBT patients, it runs the risk of being rendered ineffective, counterproductive or even detrimental to recovery.