Tag: AIDS
Matt Bomer salutes the gays who made his life possible
Known for his work on the USA drama White Collar and in films like Magic Mike, Bomer is winning early raves for his role as Felix Turner in The Normal Heart, based on Larry Kramer’s Tony-winning play about the AIDS crisis.
Uganda raid AIDS project
Police in Uganda have accused a US-funded AIDS project that they raided last week of paying young men to become homosexuals.
NZ : HIV prevention not possible without community support
The New Zealand AIDS Foundation is deeply grateful for the support it receives from the community. Without that support, preventing HIV would be a difficult task.
Ugandan police raid US project that assisted gay
Ugandan police raided the offices of a United States-funded project known to offer AIDS services to homosexuals, a government spokesman said Friday, in what appeared to be the first public action by police to enforce a new law that strengthened criminal penalties against gay sex.
Anti-Homosexuality law in Uganda violates human rights
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Monday denounced the anti-homosexuality law signed into force in Uganda, which she said would institutionalise discrimination against lesbians, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and could encourage harassment and violence against them.
HRC Calls on Secretary Kerry to Recall U.S. Ambassadors to Uganda, Nigeria
Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the Americas’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, called on U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to recall the Americas’s ambassadors to Uganda and Nigeria.